Gaming Videos, Headlines, Music, Nintendo Wii, Playstation 3, Xbox 360
Marvel vs Capcom 2 released for Xbox Live Arcade and gamers should be downloading it and not sitting around playing other XBLA titles. Spider-Man and Strider have always been a couple characters that knowledgeable players can use to great advantages.
Business, Console, Interviews, Movies, Music
The number of vessels for selling and buying used games continues grow. With Gamestop’s sales soaring arguable due to America’s economic stature, we have seen bigs such as Amazon, Toys R Us, Walmart, and more enact plans to buy back gamer’s goods to resell.
GotGame was fortunate enough to trade words with Nicolas Huryn, community manager of a new used media marketplace called Glyde.
Let’s see what its like for a brand spanking new start-up enter the fray amongst the countless others.
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Gamer Culture, Guitar Hero, Humor, Music, Rock Band
Rock Band has its fair share of editions. Since the initial November 2007 release, we’ve seen Rock Band 2, as well as five track packs, one of which features AC-DC. There are also plans for Lego Rock Band and Beatles: Rock Band.
Et tu, Guitar Hero?
On Monday, May 18, 2009; I had the chance to attend the SanFran MusicTech Summit at Hotel Kabuki in San Francisco’s dilapidated Japantown. During the summit, which ran from 9 am to around 6 pm, I sat in on a few panels where musicians, record label types, and various businesses all sat down to discuss where the music industry is heading and how the changes would affect everyone.
On Monday, May 18, 2009; GotGame.com will be attending the SanFran MusicTech Summit at the Hotel Kabuki in San Francisco’s Japantown. During this one day summit, all sorts of different panels will be held covering related topics like, Music in Audio-Visual Works, Social Networking & Music, and Brands & Bands: The Evolution of Music Marketing.
While at the summit, GotGame will be talking with industry types and finding out their opinions of the video game industry in relation to the music industry.
Gamer Culture, Interviews, Music, Playstation 3
Gamer Soundcheck is back, although not really with a vengeance. I like to think my posts are a bit more benevolent than that.
Anyway, this time around, GS is looking at a band that’s all about giving video game music a little soul (and a bit of Latin and funk, just for good measure): The OneUps.
I recently sat down with the band’s bassist and manager, Mustin, (or at least, I assume he was also sitting when I called him) and asked him a few questions.
Here’s what he had to say about Mario Paint, that one dude who always yells “play ‘Free Bird!’” and video game music’s nostalgic appeal:
I’ll be the first to admit my music collection is a few degrees short of cool. (Don’t ask why I need the entire ABBA discography, okay? I just do.)
But I’ve learned you can’t fight your inner geek. Sometimes, you’ve just got to embrace him, regardless of when the last time he showered was.
Here’s a look at some of the nerdiest music out there, but not in a bad way. Rather, that’s what these artists were going for.
Casual Games, Gamer Culture, Music, Nintendo Wii, Rock Band
Pardon the pity party, but in high school, I really had no one to talk to about video games. My gender and my aggressive personality set me apart from the real nerds who were the gamers back then. Of course, in the days before I discovered the eternal, in-depth conversations taking place on internet message boards, the main people I subjected to my strongly specialized opinions were my very patient parents.
