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
- Metal Gear Solid Theme Removed from MGS 4 Due to Plagiarism Charges
- Saling The World: Wii Music Tops Wii Sales; Gears of War 2 Leads …
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.
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.
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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.
Metal Gear Solid Theme Removed from MGS 4 Due to Plagiarism Charges
Shacknews
“They didn’t actually. But Konami was too sensitive about the situation and just decided not to use that music in the game. The unnamed Russian composers apparently allege that the theme was stolen from Russian composer Georgy Sviridov’s concerto “Pushkin’s Garland” from 1979. The Metal Gear Solid theme is credited to composer Tappi “TAPPY” Iwase and first debuted with the PlayStation release of Metal Gear Solid in 1998. Below the fold is a video of Metal Gear creator Hideo Kojima essentially getting “Das Punked” with the tune by a Russian magazine. Judge for yourself whether the Metal Gear theme is the result of plagiarism or coincidence.
Saling The World: Wii Music Tops Wii Sales; Gears of War 2 Leads …
Gamasutra CA
Resistance 2 (SCEA). Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots — Special Edition (Konami) 2. World Soccer Winning Eleven 2009 (Konami) 3. Ryu ga Gotoku Kenzan! — PlayStation 3 The Best (Sega) 4. Grand Theft Auto IV (Capcom) 5. Minna no Golf 5 — PlayStation 3 The Best (SCEI).