Archive for June, 2008

Rock Band notes, #1

Monday, June 30th, 2008

So we got Rock Band as a wedding gift from Justin (decisive winner of the Most 3lit3 Wedding Gift contest). We spent just about all of our indoor time at our mini-honeymoon condo on the beach playing Rock Band, with Colette singing and guitaring, and me either guitaring or drumming. This being my [...]

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Back again: some highlights from June

Wednesday, June 25th, 2008

June has been a crazy month. Here are some of the highlights:

I got married. I got Rock Band and played the hell out of it. I got Guitar Hero III and played it a little bit. I got a plethora of [...]

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Steamcloud

Monday, June 2nd, 2008

I ran across this news while writing up my previous post. It appears that Valve has gone and done exactly what I want for my gaming experience: the ability to have my savegames and configuration settings “in the cloud,” as it were, preventing me from transporting crap from computer to computer. Of course, [...]

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The ridiculousness of video game storage

Monday, June 2nd, 2008

The situation today with console game storage has gotten absolutely insane. “The Big Three” have made it so much more complex and inadequate than it ever should have been. Microsoft gives you a measly 20GB drive on their standard edition, 120GB if you want to overpay for it (or a whopping 0GB if [...]

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