When Rock Band came out the hardest system to find it for was the Xbox360. PS3 copies were everywhere. The Wii? It was left out in the cold, until now.On June 22, 2008 The Wii version of Rock Band will hit stores. Expect it to sell out just as quickly as Guitar Hero did back…
Wii Review: Cranium Kabookii
This week is school vacation week for us. This means my daughter is off all week long. Being the good father that I am I also took the week off from work so I could be sure to spend some quality time fighting with my daughter. Because I work nights I don’t get a lot…
Absolut gets it absolutely wrong
What in the world were the makers of Absolut Vodka thinking when they made this ad? Did someone forget to inform their advertising team that the USA is the biggest importer of their vodka? Or should I say “was” the biggest importer of their vodka?Perhaps the Swedish-French partnership at work here failed to do a…
Movie Review: Death at a Funeral
Once again one of those little red Netflix envelopes graced my mailbox this week. This one was one we ordered based off of a trailer we saw before another movie. I present to you my review of Death at a FuneralThe movie begins with a funeral. In fact, 90% of the activity in the movie…
Gibson still suing over Guitar Hero
NASHVILLE, Tenn. –(Business Wire)– Mar. 21, 2008 On March 20, 2008, Gibson Guitar Corp. filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Harmonix, MTV Networks (a division of Viacom) and Electronic Arts (EA Games) in the Federal District Court in Tennessee. This new lawsuit relates to the same U.S. Patent involved in the lawsuit filed by Gibson…
Movie Review: Dan in Real Life
Once again one of those little red Netflix envelopes graced my mailbox this week. This time it was a movie both my wife and I wanted to see.It took a while before the acting style of Steve Carell caught on with me. I’d seen The Office a time or two but it wasn’t until the…
Amazon.com Completes Acquisition of Audible
SEATTLE–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) today announced the completion of its acquisition of Audible, Inc. (NASDAQ:ADBL).Audible is the leading provider of spoken audio information and entertainment on the Internet. Through its websites in the US and UK and alliances in Germany and France, Audible offers over 80,000 programs, including audiobooks and other spoken word content from…
Nintendo Talks NPD Data
The latest video game industry sales figures reported by the independent NPD Group show that Nintendo DS and Wii topped the U.S. charts for February. Nintendo DS sold nearly 587,600 units and Wii sold nearly 432,000.”Our momentum has not let up since the holidays and we expect it to continue throughout the year,” said Cammie…
Super Smash Bros. Brawl – Worth the Wait
Sunday morning my daughter and I waited in line in front of our local GameStop store to pickup our reserved copy of Super Smash Bros. Brawl. There were a few high school kids in the line but the line was not very long. In fact there were only about 10 kids when we got there…
Saying Good Bye to a Legend
It is with heavy heart that I report the passing of gaming legend Gary Gygax. The father of the modern RPG industry died today at the age of 69 at his Lake Geneva home.Gary will be missed by all in the RPG world. Without the creation of Dungeons and Dragons and the formation of TSR…
5 Tech Companies More Profitable than Exxon Mobil
A lot has been said recently about the “Record Profits” of the oil industry. Words like “Price Gauging” and “Insane Profits” fall from the lips of would be pundits all over the Internet. what I would like to do today is show you that Exxon Mobil is not the big bad profiteering company many people…
Two New Items Coming to the Wii Menu System
The Nintendo Wii has been a raging success. Everyone is buying the console and if you don’t get to the store when they come in you just can not buy one.Just the other day I was taking a break at work when one of the guys i worked with started talking about the Wii. He…