A while back, we featured an announcement from Gamers To Players (G2P), a new instructional documentary, which made an interesting claim: This DVD boasts the ability to “transform gamers into real guitarists.” Join us as we put this claim to the test, attempting to use the DVD’s instructions to turn a Rock Band/Guitar Hero devotee [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, September 30, 2008
Last week, we featured an announcement from Gamers To Players (G2P), a new instructional documentary, which made an interesting claim: This DVD, said the press release, can “transform gamers into real guitarists.” At the time, I called this promise a tall order; I have personally attempted to make this transformation in the past, and met [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, September 24, 2008
Hold it! We can’t hear you in the back of the audience, Phoenix. You need to use more PROJECTION! I’m sorry; that was uncalled for. I’m sure the woman who will be playing Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney, in the upcoming musical stage performance based on Capcom’s game series, has a marvelous voice. Spotted this morning [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, September 24, 2008
“That’s nothing like playing an actual instrument,” they sneer. “Learn to play a real guitar,” they taunt. “With all the time you waste on Guitar Hero, you could have learned an actual skill by now,” they smirk. “You wouldn’t have to play Coheed & Cambria if you had a real guitar,” they scoff. Okay, so [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, July 17, 2008
As the sun rises on the very last day of E3 2008, GameCyte contemplates the time they spent last night with the gods of rock, and the time they wasted with the rock of Konami. In pictures, right after the jump.
Continue reading...Monday, July 14, 2008
Microsoft’s Xbox 360 Media Briefing, beyond being scored with hard-rocking tunes for the entrances of its various executives, spent a lengthy period discussing the future of music-based games for the platform. Following the presentation’s overall theme of “something for everybody,” Microsoft’s Shane Kim introduced the music genre as the type of game that appeals to [...]
Continue reading...Monday, May 12, 2008
Hot on the heels of a massive “FM Update” that added audioscrobbling, a music visualizer and mod support to award-winning indie rhythm title Audiosurf, comes news of a partnership with a real, honest-to-god record label, Aardvark, to bring 160 fresh audio tracks to the game. If you’re unfamiliar with the game, then you must immediately [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, May 8, 2008
We’ve known since January that it was coming, and just this Monday we saw what it might look like, but today it’s here: Microsoft XNA-powered Zune games. Sort of. Yesterday, Microsoft released the XNA Game Studio 3.0 Community Technical Preview, hereafter known as the CTP, which allows developers to build 2-D games for the media [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, May 7, 2008
When you’re traversing the expanses of a massive, free-roaming game, it’s important to have a good, adaptable soundtrack — and for Morrowind and its successor Oblivion, publisher Bethesda Softworks hired a master: Jeremy Soule. While rumors abounded that Soule would score Fallout 3 as well, we’ve learned today that Bethesda has instead left the project [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, April 22, 2008
At the intersection of gaming, music, and above all marketing, is Sierra Entertainment’s promotional Paul Oakenfold concert “The Bourne Sessions.” Originally performed in an exclusive Miami club to promote The Bourne Conspiracy at the Winter Music Conference, the first part of the 80-minute session is now available free of charge at Yahoo Music — and [...]
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