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No More Heroes
It occurred to me that I might be done with Guitar Hero. Don’t get me wrong, I loved the game. I got on board with the original Guitar Hero when it first came out, driving to about a dozen stores in two states on my way home from Christmas at my folks’ house to find a copy, and I played the hell out of it. Having absolutely zero musical talent, here was a way to feel—admittedly in a somewhat cheap, plastic way—that I was able to shred a six-string and play some killer tunes. For a musically inept metalhead, this was a dream come true. I introduced my fiancee to the game and she wound up “borrowing” it for several months. We snapped up Guitar Hero 2 when it released, and later, with dwindling enthusiasm, Guitar Hero 3. We also grabbed Rock Band, because I was seriously stoked about playing the drums, much to our downstair neighbor’s lament.
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Heading Home
Well, after multiple delays, eternal beta testing, and lots of excuses, Sony finally released Home, their much-hyped online socializing space, in a public beta for the PS3. Was it worth the long wait?
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Focus!
I wasn’t that interested in the launch of the new Xbox 360 interface. I didn’t care about their new Mii-wannabe Avatars, the ripped-off-from-iTunes “coverflow” navigation, the pointless party system, any of it. Seemed like just another example of Microsoft copying someone else’s success and calling it innovation. And then I heard about streaming Netflix movies and changed my tune rather quickly.
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