Zay’z – [ Den 'O' Slack ]

If anyone ever wants to play some Marvel Ultimate Alliance on Xbox Live (Xbox 360), give me a message sometime!

AWannaBe

The Joker

Well this past week wasn’t as slacktastic as I had hoped but I did have the opportunity to accomplish a few things before the “new year” hops on over us.

In no discernible order:

• Worked way more than I had anticipated… way, way more.
• Watched the Dark Knight finally, (was shocked how “good” the movie is).
• Also saw Iron Man finally, (“Training exercise isn’t that the normal BS you feed ‘em?“)
• Ate Domino’s pizza for the first time in well over a decade. (I didn’t ralph this time.)
• Spent hours in the snow and ice to change a flat tire on Christmas day. [sweet!!!]
• Got nearly all the achievements for Star Wars: The Force Unleashed (finally).
• Watched the Cowboys completely melt down against the Eagles. [sigh]
• Got to walk in tremendous amounts of snow and freezing rain, by just walking outside my door. [zen!]
• Realized I put my thermal socks in storage. [doh!?]
• Didn’t blog.
• Cleaned.
• Worked on some music.
• Forgot what else I did, it was that good.

A very quasi-slacktastic holiday indeed.

What about you?

Star Wars: The Force Unleashed

So I’ve been playing Star Wars: The Force Unleashed for a few days now, and well… I’m glad I didn’t buy it and just rented it. It’s one of those games that… you know, you just don’t really think man I really love how this game flows.

The fights are incredibly frustrating and almost make you think; “It took how long to do this?”

There’s some things that are to put it bluntly just not well done and others which are not polished as they should be.

I might do a more in-depth scathing review later but right now I just don’t have the time, or the ability to put into words my dissapointment.

So yesterday Harmonix announced the release of Pearl Jam’s Ten album due out this March to coincide with the bands re-release of the album.

And today they released a bunch of “country” songs.

Huh.

Hmm.

Well then.

So the new XBE Avatar feature is pretty sweet.

Pretty sweet, indeed.

It’s here.

This weeks Rock Band downloadable content includes one of my all time favorite songs from the decade past.

Blink182’s Dammit.

I guess there’s some other releases as well:

Siouxsie and the Banshees Pack – 440 MSP ($5.49)

• “Hong Kong Garden” – 160 MSP ($1.99)
• “The Killing Jar” – 160 MSP ($1.99)
• “Kiss Them For Me” – 160 MSP ($1.99)

Blink 182 – “Dammit” – 160 MSP ($1.99)
The Psychedelic Furs – “Pretty In Pink” – 160 MSP ($1.99)
Silversun Pickups – “Melatonin” – 160 MSP ($1.99)
Silversun Pickups – “Well Thought Out Twinkles” – 160 MSP ($1.99)

You can see the “official” release notes here.

Well it’s that time again, Rock Band downloads for the week of Oct/21st, no full albums this week but we do get to hear some more Nirvana (finally).

The track pack includes the following:

Breed
Lounge Act
On a Plain
Polly
Something in the Way
Stay Away
Territorial Pissings

It will be $11 [US] for all seven songs.

Official release notes here.

AC/DC : Live

Well it finally happened… AC/DC is coming to town, in “full” album form that is.

And guess what, the tracks are remixed by Mike Fraser for Rock Band. Awesome.

It looks that this release will be even more expensive than the Red Hot Chilli Peppers release of Blood Sugar Sex Magik which is $20 [1,600MSPoints]. The AC/DC “Track Pack” as it’s called will run somewhere around $40 [US]!!!

Which again I’m sure is not squarely on Harmonix but on those that hold the master and or publishing rights to the tracks.

Weak.

The tracks are really solid though:

“Thunderstruck”
“Shoot to Thrill”
“Back in Black”
“Hell Ain’t a Bad Place to Be”
“Heatseeker”
“Fire Your Guns”
“Jailbreak”
“The Jack”
“Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap”
“Moneytalks”
“Hells Bells”
“High Voltage”
“Whole Lotta Rosie”
“You Shook Me All Night Long”
“T.N.T.”
“Let There Be Rock”
“Highway To Hell”
“For Those About to Rock (We Salute You)”

Nice.

The entire press release can be read here.