Christmas is coming... actually, for gamers Christmas is pretty much here: the last month or so has seen more good games released than have been all year:

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A challenge set in Rock Band 2:

• Face Down in the Dirt by Mötley Crüe
• Inside the Fire by Disturbed
• Riding on the Wind by Judas Priest
• Wave of Mutilation by Pixies
• Closer to the Heart by Rush

Your dreams may come true.
Kotaku article
Scorehero thread

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Also: Pretty Fly and Self Esteem by Offspring for DLC this week!

Results for the 00's movie quiz; winner is the late entrant: Gus! Congrats. Well played everyone, hope you all had fun.

Pos.NameScore
1Gus6
2magic_larry
5
-ms_medea
5
4pit_fishes
4
5Craig
3
-Peter
3
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Yes, it's the return of the guess-the-movie-from-the-song quiz, this time focussing on a different decade: 2000+ (so... not quite a decade yet). To play, just download this file, unzip it and listen to the songs (which are ordered by approximate difficulty, easiest first ( Read more... )

On the way to work this morning I saw one of these glowing yellow through a first floor window:


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Well, I'm still playing it but Guitar Hero: Rocks the 80s was a bit of a disappointment. The track list is not great. The concept is amazing, but if you were to list 30 guitar tracks from the 80's and line it up with the 30 included then I think you'd be lucky to get two correlations. As far as songs I enjoy playing/listening to, I find I have:
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Got back from RichFest '07 OK, despite the best attempts of incompetent terrorists.
Results were waiting for me, and I seem to have passed all my classes. Now I just have to write a dissertation...

Also: Shrek 3 is pretty good.

Also also: 20 days til GH Rock the 80s!

The end of the quiz, and we have a winner: auqakuh (again). Congrats!

Scores:

Pos.NameScore
1auqakuh9
2silas_greenback7
3limfactor6
4magic_larry4
5clockworksaint1
=pit_fishes1

Special bonus for Weeble, who was the only person to get #6.

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All my exams are now done (all both of them). I have a C++ program to write and an essay, both due for Friday, after which I should be pretty much free for the summer. Woohoo ( Read more... )