Craymen Edge

Gerstman needs to shave that fluff off his lip, he looks ridiculous.

I'm not averse to paying or donating a little for something I really like (I've already done it with a few sites over the years), but I'm not a regular enough user of the Giant Bomb site to be worthwhile for me. They've got a lot of interesting social networking and community stuff on there that might be worth it if you're into that stuff. The cutting the podcast in half proposal is somewhat against their stated intention of not locking people out of content, even if it's only for a limited period. That said, I could live without the new releases and emails segments if I had to.

No More Heroes 2 : Desperate Struggle (Wii) I left this at the final battle a month or so ago, because the boss was an utter cunt in his second form (punching you out the window for an instant Game Over FTL). I turned it on today and beat the shit out of him with my big red lightsabre first go... Take that you bastard. All in all, a much improved game over the first one, but didn't quite have the same impact being a sequel and all that. I enjoyed it a lot, apart from that last boss.

Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse. Episode 1: The Penal Zone (PC) I played through this once before, but decided to wait for the rest of the episodes to come before I played any more so I could do them all together. I decided to do this one again to remind me what had gone on. Some quality gags in there.

August: Gratuitous Space Battles +DLC (PC) - £5.24 Hydro Thunder: Hurricane (XBLA) - 1200 M$ Monday Night Combat (XBLA) - 1200 M$ Total to 7/9/2010: £544.61 in real money £139.97 in trade-in credit, reward points, or vouchers 6940 Microsoft points 1300 Wii Points

I liked the way it ended. To me it had a very X-Files feeling to it, in that the story doesn't end with everyone happy and everything explained. I think the rough artwork is because the same hand-drawn artwork used for the scene is just zoomed in for close-ups. It does look a bit bad in places.

The dark haired guitarist in The Animals video looks properly demented towards the end. Edit: here...

I have to admit I haven't been keeping up with this thread lately. Shame on me. I was only slightly aware of these guys at the time, but I do like the 90's indie rock, so I enjoyed this a lot. I thought his voice was a bit annoying to begin with, but it had grown on me by the end. I heard on the Spotify Radio feature thing earlier and have been singing it to myself all morning. But I'm not going to have that as my track for today, because it reminded me of this, and this is much better.The Zombies - She's Not There <object width="480" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5IRI4oHKNU?fs=1&hl=en_GB"></param><param'>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5IRI4oHKNU?fs=1&hl=en_GB"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5IRI4oHKNU?fs=1&hl=en_GB" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"></embed></object>

King Kong (360) I've had this as long as I've had my 360. I think it was a launch title or pretty close? Looking at it now, you can definitely see it has last gen roots at heart. The graphics look terrible when compared with most 360 games now, and it's so stupidly dark in some sections. It veered between some cool interesting bits, and sections that were just eye gougingly frustrating. It is missing a lot if stuff we take for granted e.g. Objective hints/markers, damage indicators etc. Playing as Kong and beating the shit out of dinosaurs was pretty fun. I'd give it Average out of 10, but at least that's one more old game cleared out of the backlog.

I really enjoyed that. Although I was rather disappointed at first that the "Mysterious Sonic Experiment" had nothing to do with blue hedgehogs, this totally makes up for that.

A bit too many of the "Do x, n times" kind of achievements for my liking. If you don't get those in the course of normal play, then they can be pretty dull things to try and do later.

Heh, I didn't play any of those this week (unless it counts the demo of the Lara Croft game).

Yay!

I played that on PSP, it's good but incredibly short.

500 points, I think.

Man, I fuckin love Cannonball. There's a lot of decent stuff on there, the only real stinker in my opinion is Disorder (the Slayer & Ice T track), it's like Body Count (Ice's ill-advised foray into thrash), but even worse. If you want to hear more I recommend youtubin' for: Dinosaur Junior & Del the Funkee Homosapien - Missing Link Sonic Youth & Cypress Hill - I Love You Mary Jane Mudhoney & Sir Mix-a-Lot - Freak Momma Teenage Fanclub & De La Soul - Fallin' Youtube is blocked here at work, so I can't find them myself unfortunately.

I watched a bit of that Wheatley video, stopped after a while as I didn't want to see too much. It sounds too human, bascially it's just Stephen Merchant. I hope they robot it up a little bit before it's out, the same as they do with Glados and the turrets.

The song wasn't really my cup of tea, but Ben sums it up very well - they were very nice to watch. Cypress Hill & Pearl Jam - The Real Thing From the Judgement Night soundtrack. An absolutely terrible film, but an amazing soundtrack. I had this on cassette back in the day, it took me an age to track it down on CD again later. <object width="480" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBGEYJF8nJY?fs=1&hl=en_GB"></param><param'>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBGEYJF8nJY?fs=1&hl=en_GB"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBGEYJF8nJY?fs=1&hl=en_GB" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"></embed></object>

This is an amazing, epic project. http://www.itstherub.com/?cat=15 The History of Hip-Hop 1979-2009 presented as a series of really impressive downloadable mixes - 1 for each year. Looking through the tracklistings, 1990 looks rather tasty.

Tomena Sanner (WiiWare) Normal Mode and Turbo Mode completed. I got this to use up some left over Wii points. It's a short, silly little Japanese game, where you have to get your salaryman to the party at the end of the stage by pressing the A button at the right time to get past the obstacles. The various weird things you encounter and the range of animations make for a stupid but enjoyable game. <object width="640" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MgzRgrtMorw?fs=1&hl=en_GB"></param><param'>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MgzRgrtMorw?fs=1&hl=en_GB"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MgzRgrtMorw?fs=1&hl=en_GB" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="640" height="385"></embed></object>

Monica listens to Bloc Party all the time so I've heard so much of their stuff, more than some of the music I've bought myself in some cases. I like this one, I like the way a lot of their songs are built up. Although I think his voice is a little weak, it's also fairly pleasant to listen to. Lo Fidelity All-Stars : Many Tentacles Pimping on the Keys. Many Tentacles is the name thekeyboard player went by in the band. This is a remix/B-side from the single , I think it's superior to the title track. I actually bought the CD single to get this track.<object width="480" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1aJt7-dj0A?fs=1&hl=en_GB"></param><param'>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1aJt7-dj0A?fs=1&hl=en_GB"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1aJt7-dj0A?fs=1&hl=en_GB" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"></embed></object>

Spent yesterday evening trying to get rid of a similar infection on my PC last night. I have no idea how it got there, although I did notice I seemed to have accidentally disabled my NoScript plugin in firefox.

Rainbow Unicorn! This looks so lovely. I've booked my tickets and now I'm here at the platform with my sandwiches and flask, waiting for the Hype Train to pull in.

I love that. So smoooooth... I'm really relaxed now. Money Mark - Hand In Your Head <object width="480" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dqxYjkwfzY?fs=1&hl=en_GB"></param><param'>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dqxYjkwfzY?fs=1&hl=en_GB"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dqxYjkwfzY?fs=1&hl=en_GB" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"></embed></object> Mark's Keyboard Repair was a great album.

Wouldn't it be ace if Sigur Ros sped up 800% sounded like Beiber.