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We’ve been playing the CoD: World at War beta at the Kezins Office for the last couple of weeks, but now everyone is welcome to join. Activision has thrown up the game on Xbox Live waters for all to play, peruse, and criticize.
It reminds us a lot of that little game — you may not have heard of it — Call of Duty 4, but now with the added benefit of scary attack dogs shadowing your every step! Even more (easy) kills after a 7-kill streak? Tsk, tsk.
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One of our favorite commentators on the site, Adrian Otero, joins Carlos today to talk a bit about MTV finally getting Apple Corps to loosen their grip on the Beatles license. Thrifty/Sav-on talk ensues…you listen in.
Bonus! “Dan in Real Life is a movie that came out last year…”
While it might seem like the above headline is an affirmation, confirmation, or whatever from Microsoft and Activision, it’s really just common sense when you think about it. The topic? Well, the fire-cooling announcement that Guitar Hero: World Tour’s instruments will work on competing software — i.e. Rock Band (and possibly its sequel).
If you have been wondering if we’ll ever see Led Zeppelin songs in a video game such as Rock Band or Guitar Hero, the answer is NEVER! Apparently Activision and MTV have tried to get LZ, and Jimmy Page turns them down every time. It’s unfortunate, but I certainly respect their right as artists to control their music.
According to The Wall Street Journal, Jimmy Page, and his bandmates have repeatedly turned down offers from both Activision and MTV to use their tunes in either Rock Band or Guitar Hero music games. The band isn’t “comfortable with the prospect of granting outsiders access to its master tapes.” ”It ain’t about the money,” says Led Zep manager Peter Mensch.
More interesting info from the Wall Street Journal: These bands are all in talks to have content included in music games (either Rock Band or Guitar Hero):
- Van Halen,
- the Eagles,
- Steely Dan
- Guns N’ Roses
There’s been recent rumblings about what the final set list will be for Rock Band 2 but more interesting, at least for this writer, is what else the game will provide right out of the box.
IGN reports (via Kotaku) that when gamers take home and open up their shiny new Rock Band 2 game this fall, you’ll be able to download the first game’s complete set list…for FREE.
Gamestop might just get a sudden influx of Rock Band discs as Activision EA will be relieving the slight inconvenience of disc-swapping. Rocking out will suffer no delays.
Via IGN Insider (through Kotaku)
[Edited: As our kind readers have pointed out, EA is the publisher of all things Rock Band and it's developed by Harmonix who created Guitar Hero and its sequel. Our bad.]
Things haven’t looked real positive for the ESA in recent times. For those of you who are unfamiliar with the ESA (Entertainment Software Association), they are best known for organizing E3 every year. The E3 Expo is also a former shell of what it once was. Several companies have opted to pull out of the ESA recently including iD Software, Activision, LucasArts, and Vivendi. There are still numerous companies sticking with the organization, but one has to wonder if there’s something bad going on…
Very little information has been released by the ESA or the companies who pulled out, leaving the situation in a very gray area.
In an official statement from the ESA, senior VP of communications and research Rich Taylor said:
“We can confirm that id Software has decided not to renew its membership in the ESA. We admire their creativity and innovation. We also respect their decision.”
Via MCV
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