The News Review:

- Jack Black on riding pterodactyls heavy metal and his new video game
- In-the-works video games cater to music fans
- 20 hours a day of bad metal music = passive torture

Jack Black on riding pterodactyls heavy metal and his new video game
Los Angeles Times CA 
You couldn’t do that back then. You could only imagine that. What this game allows you to do is physicalize heavy metal music. You can do battle with this dramatic dangerous music as your score. It’s a real wish-fulfillment game for me. How is working in games different from in movies? Black: It’s exciting to me because it’s still relatively new. It’s an art form that hasn’t really reached its potential yet.
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In-the-works video games cater to music fans
Reuters 
But it’s the first time a console game has integrated digital music purchases and it has given other developers plenty of ideas. THE DARK HORSE When Sierra Entertainment unveiled details of its “Brutal Legend” online gamer forums went crazy with excitement. But the reaction among music executives was tepid at best — perhaps because the game isn’t about music simulation but the story of a roadie sent back in time when heavy metal gods ruled the world. The game remains in limbo though as Sierra Entertainment parent company Vivendi Games and Activision complete their merger. THE BEATLES They’re not available on iTunes or any other digital music service. But the Fab Four made headlines when MTV announced that it would be making a videogame featuring the group’s music history images and characters.

20 hours a day of bad metal music = passive torture
Knoxville News Sentinel TN 
The experience was overwhelming for many. Binyam Mohammed now a prisoner at Guantanamo Bay said men held with him at the CIA’s “Dark Prison” in Afghanistan wound up screaming and smashing their heads against walls unable to endure more. “There was loud music (Eminem’s) ‘Slim Shady’ and Dr. I heard this nonstop over and over” he told his lawyer Clive Stafford Smith. “The CIA worked on people including me day and night for the months before I left. Plenty lost their minds.