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Guitar Hero: World Tour Owes Me [Impressions]
Guitar Hero: World Tour Owes Me [Impressions]
My impressions of Rock Band Guitar Hero: World Tour are colored by all the shit I had to go through to even get near the game. It started with a broken BART train. This led to a cab, which I had no money to pay for. The next shit storm occurred when my flight was cancelled. And then, the later ...
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Guitar Hero World Tour for Wii pleasantly surprises (and gives hope to Wii Music?!)
Infendo - Nintendo blog — ... Perusing the feeds this afternoon, I was surprised to discover an article that basically amounts to a ringing endorsement of the New Generation of gaming. Not the “Next” Generation, which is a farce created by video game marketers, but “new.” As in, all-inclusive, approachable games that place fun before competition, and game play over graph–well, I won’t go there again because I fear I’ve beaten that dead horse enough. ...

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