Game news: Games go 3D; a classic magazine folds
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- Game news: Games go 3D; a classic magazine folds
- The Biggest Rock Albums Coming Your Way In 2009
- AC/DC: A timeless classic
- Jack FM “seismic change” a ruse
- Requests pour in for RW’s ‘Foreclosure Angel’
- Get Lit: So You Want to Be a Rock ‘N Roll Star: The Byrds Day-by …
- Kamelot Confirmed for Norway’s Classic Rock Festival
Game news: Games go 3D; a classic magazine folds
The Associated Press
CES is generally a showcase for hardware from tiny smart phones to gigantic flat-screen TVs so it usually doesn’t feature many new game announcements. Indeed the biggest news for gamers was sort of a non-announcement: Harmonix CE Alex Rigopulos said his studio was working so hard on its new Beatles game that it’s not likely to produce a “Rock Band 3″ this year. (Publisher MTV Games was quick to clarify that there will be plenty of fresh “Rock Band” content including downloadable songs throughout the year. )Besides promoting this year’s releases of “Halo Wars” and “Halo 3: DST” Microsoft introduced one new piece of software. Called Kodu it’s an extremely simplified design tool that’s meant to encourage amateurs to create their own games for the Xbox 360. During Microsoft’s keynote address Entertainment and Devices Division President Robbie Bach had a 12-year-old girl demonstrate a game that she built with Kodu and it looked more interesting than many of the Wii games that are on the market. ____LST PAGES: The global economic meltdown is finally taking its toll on the video-game industry.
The Biggest Rock Albums Coming Your Way In 2009
MTV.com
and 2009 looks like it could be even bigger. So all this week we’re taking stock of the things guaranteed to rock this year. From the triumphant returns of some of the biggest bands on the planet to a handful of up-and-coming acts that we’re expecting big things from in ‘09 we’ve got it all covered. This is Rock Week on MTVNews. comIt will be pretty difficult to top a year that saw new albums from both.
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AC/DC: A timeless classic
Cincinnati.com H
Maybe it was 80000 times in the case of “You Shook Me All Night Long. Those riffs so primitive and archetypal are the ’70s and ’80s equivalents of “You Really Got Me” or “Satisfaction” you can dare to say that they can’t be overplayed.
Jack FM “seismic change” a ruse
Minneapolis Star Tribune MN
"What? Did you think we were changing formats?" an on-air voice asked as the clock struck 5. Throughout the day the station ran spots about "a seismic change" on the radio dial and promising that something new would "rise from the ashes" of the old Jack. However it stuck to its usual mix of classic-rock and more recent pop hits already heard a lot on other stations. CHRIS RIEMENSCHNEIDER.
Requests pour in for RW’s ‘Foreclosure Angel’
Rockwall County Herald Banner tx
Tracy rr said “It was time for me to see the goodness. ”They spent Thanksgiving morning in Pottsboro filming for CNN but until Dec. 30 Tracy rr had never visited the Rockwall rock yard Classic Rock which Marilyn started three years ago out of her car. Tracy rr and her niece Deziraye Wald came to help Marilyn brainstorm the fledgling Foreclosure Angel Foundation Marilyn started within two weeks of the now famous foreclosure purchase. Marilyn said she stays up till 3 a. nearly every night reading the hundreds of e-mails which come in through foreclosureangelfoundation.
Get Lit: So You Want to Be a Rock ‘N Roll Star: The Byrds Day-by …
Houston Press TX
Tambourine Man” “Turn! Turn! Turn!” “Eight Miles High” “Mr. Spaceman” “Wasn’t Born to Follow” “Chestnut Mare” and the track that gives this book its title. Norwegian rock journalist Christopher Hjort (Strange Brew: Eric Clapton and the British Blues Boom 1965-1970) has written an exhaustive – and I mean exhaustive – timeline of the group’s arc in calendar form from formation to heyday to dissolution. If a member of the Byrds sang played wrote or farted it’s down all down here.
Kamelot Confirmed for Norway’s Classic Rock Festival
Metal Underground MD
Their set in particular is on the 21st. For more information please visit. classicrockfestival.
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