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http://www.rockband.com/forums/showthread.php?t=145642

http://www.rockband.com/forums/showthread.php?t=145468 Green Day stuff coming, exclusive to Rock Band. "21 Guns", "Know Your Enemy", "East Jesus Nowhere" on July 7th.

http://www.rockband.com/forums/showthread.php?t=142793

Courtesy of the Rock Band newsletter again: Coming June 9th is a 12-pack of Iron Maiden tracks. "These are original master recordings, combining the classic album tracks with awesome live recordings from the band's critically acclaimed tour documentary Flight 666." "Aces High (Live)" "2 Minutes to Midnight" "The Trooper" "Wasted Years" "The Number of the Beast" "Run to the Hills" "Can I Play with Madness" "The Clairvoyant" "Powerslave" "Fear of the Dark (Live)" "Hallowed Be Thy Name (Live)" "Iron Maiden (Live)"

I did a little more career today. I seem to either hand a decisive beating, or take one. Not really much in between in the way of a competitive fight. I can finally throw a head kick now, after levelling up my Muay Thai. The Judo sessions are brutal, though. I think I've completed 5 tasks in 2 tries.

http://www.rockband.com/forums/showthread.php?t=141630

I got Cro Cop'd again. Then beat by Mark Coleman in my last fight. I seem to be getting my ass kicked against the experienced fighters. I hope after my next Muay Thai camp, if I get enough points to level up, I'll get some kind of flying knee special.

Pretty sure I got 350 sponsor cred for my last fight. 35 x 10 logos. Probably not how it should be, but I think that's how it's working.

I found my character after all. I figured I'd still have to go to New Career, since I hadn't actually gone beyond the character creation, but after saving, I had to Load Career. I am having fun with it now. Got myself a Judo/Muay Thai heavyweight. I think I'm 7-1-0 now. Got Cro Cop'd pretty nicely. By Cro Cop, appropriately enough. My first actual card win was KO of the night via Muay Thai whip, knee to the head. For the sponsor logos on your trunks, I just loaded up 10 for THQ, since they give you 35 cred over 20 for everyone else. I don't know if it makes any difference with the size of the logo. And you'd think the more variety of sponsors you have, the more that'd help. But I guess not. Has anyone noticed any hidden depth to that whole process?

Ok, fuck this noise. I just spent at least half an hour poking around creating my character, I saved, then was told to play with my attributes. I didn't see that in the menu right away (it is actually there), so I pressed B to go back. And now my fighter's gone. You know, not that it looked like me, without any real definition to the beard, or length on the hair, or the colours actually showing up like the colours. But cripes.

Why is that? Full $69 +tax store credit if it's traded back within a week. Not for every game. It just happened to be for this one. If I don't love the thing, I'd might as well get near $80 for something else.

I opened my copy tonight. It's pretty good for what it is, and a solid first effort. I kinda like it, definitely don't love it so far. Pretty sure it's going back to EB before the week's done.

Steam deals. As usual, all in US Dollars. Call of Duty: World at War - $24.99 (50% Off) http://store.steampowered.com/news/2503/ http://store.steampowered.com/app/10090/ Sam & Max Complete Season One - $14.99 (50% Off) http://store.steampowered.com/sub/539/ Sam & Max Complete Season Two - $17.49 (50% Off) http://store.steampowered.com/sub/765/ Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People: Season 1 - $17.49 (50% Off) http://store.steampowered.com/app/8340/ (Because Telltale Games is 5 years old) http://store.steampowered.com/news/2501/ Civilization IV: The Complete Edition - $35.99 (10% Off) http://store.steampowered.com/sub/1618/ (Individual bits are also 10% off) http://store.steampowered.com/news/2505/

Courtesy of the Rock Band newsletter is next week's DLC: Alice Cooper "Billion Dollar Babies (Live)" "Poison" "I'm Eighteen (Live)" "School's Out (Live)" "Under My Wheels (Live)" "Vengeance is Mine" Taking Back Sunday "Liar (It Takes One To Know One)" "MakeDamnSure" "What's It Feel Like To Be A Ghost?"

http://www.rockband.com/forums/showthread.php?t=139957 I bolded a few extra key points there.

Link for Americans. Everyone else can get stuffed, I guess: http://www.nbc.com/Saturday_Night_Live/vid...rlover/1099491/

Probably won't stay up long, but I'll just leave this in here:

Had some extra HTTPs in there. I have a feeling it is $99 each, given that the standalone RB2 guitar is $69. Licensing costs/gratuitous Beatles markup FTW. Or maybe it's actually a better guitar. I dunno. I haven't especially liked any Rock Band guitar I've used yet, so an improvement would be nice.

I'm mad at them for even making me consider buying a PSP for Rock Band: Unplugged.

http://www.rockband.com/forums/showthread.php?t=139189 Neat. "Stricken" is one of the few Guitar Hero III songs I genuinely enjoy. Doesn't mean I'll grab it, necessarily, but I'll check it out.

Bah. I thought it might be on-disc somehow. Nope, just a download code and some Collector's Edition type stuff. That's not a bad deal if you haven't bought anything yet. I imagine people who have bought the map packs will feel cheesed (judging by the Major Nelson comments). Though I suspect they would've charged $20 for 7 maps and a new SP level on their own. The existing maps thrown in are probably considered a bonus for those who don't have it yet. Edit: The Snowblind, Combustible and Flashback packs are currently going for 2,000MSP ($25) combined, for what it's worth.

http://kotaku.com/5242106/sony-now-publish...ases-threatened Sony's made a deal whereby they'll be publishing the Ghostbusters game on Sony platforms. The PS3 & PS2 versions will be coming out the same day as the first movie on Blu-Ray--June 19. It's possible other versions are being pushed to later in the year, with Atari still publishing.

Dragon Age is reportedly going to ship for the PC with no SecuROM. http://daforums.bioware.com/forums/viewtop...6&forum=135 Holy fuck, EA finally bought a clue. And they only ruined a year's worth of releases with this shit.

http://www.rockband.com/forums/showthread.php?t=137972

This might be a dumb question, but is the screen brightness maybe too high or too low?