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Sad Chao has enough mics already
By Joe Fourhman | November 4, 2009
| submitted by Joe Haygood Do you have a gaming disappointment for Sad Chao to lament? Send it to tips@aeropause.com with the subject “Sad Chao” and your mail might make Sad Chao sad enough to post it! Can you make Sad Chao happy again? Write in comments! |
Weekend AeroProTip: Street Fighter IV
By Joe Fourhman | October 17, 2009
GAME> Street Fighter IV (2009)
SYSTEM> PS3 / 360
SOURCE> Kmart Entertainment Guide, Fall 2009
Your Blue Light Special: tips to unlock official artwork and bonus characters after the jump!
Sad Chao is a little weary of the “violent game show” angle
By Joe Fourhman | September 28, 2009
| Do you have a gaming disappointment for Sad Chao to lament? Send it to tips@aeropause.com with the subject “Sad Chao” and your mail might make Sad Chao sad enough to post it! Can you make Sad Chao happy again? Write in comments! |
Only three days remaining to play your Pepsi Rock Band codes
By Joe Fourhman | September 10, 2009
Yes, the summer’s greatest promotion ever is finally nearing endgame. If you still have any Pepsi Rock Band code caps, you better add them to your account by this Sunday, September 13. Presumably you must gamble all codes by this date as well, either on big prize raffles or the wonderful free DLC deal. If, like me, you’ve been spending all your caps on chances for free DLC song downloads, you have until September 30 to turn any leftover winners into songs. Then you have until the end of the year to actually download those songs.
The Pepsi DLC list was last updated August 27, and with the promotion so nearly finished, it seems unlikely that Pepsi will update the list again. In fact, one supposedly official Pepsi Twitter account admitted as much early this week. So all that delicious Beatles DLC is not going to suddenly appear.
Today, Pepsi managed to get Wii tokens back in stock after almost two weeks of erroring on Wii cash-ins. So if you’ve been waiting for Wii Rock Band DLC (or you’ve been stockpiling Wii points for, ahem, other future purchases), now is the time to turn those around. The Wii tokens go fast, and I would guess that this round of tokens will vanish by the end of the week. Odds are, Pepsi will get more Wii tokens in before the 30th anyway, but since this last wait was so painful, I’m loathe to live through that again. The official Rock Band forum has a great thread that has been tracking all developments in this promotion, from song errors to Wii token status, so if you’re following the scene this is a great page to bookmark.
I am really going to be cheesed by all the code caps that will find their way to my office desk AFTER this weekend.
Recharge your controllers through thin air
By Joe Fourhman | September 9, 2009
This is one of those products that makes you check the release date for April 1. Exspect is a UK-based tech company with a wide line of peripherals and accessories for various electronic devices. Today they announced the “Drop ‘N’ Charge” line of rechargeable batteries that recharge without the ol’ remove-and-plug method; you simply lay the device on the special Drop ‘N’ Charge mat and let the super-science of RF refill your battery pack.
Drop ‘N’ Charge battery packs are available for the Wii Remote, the Wii Balance Board, and the 360 controller. You don’t even need to take the Wii Remote out of the silicone condom skin! Exspect claims a three- to four-hour slumber on the mat is enough to charge the Drop ‘N’ Charge battery pack for eight to ten hours of gameplay.
Exspect’s press release only lists UK pricing, with the mat+battery kit going for 30 pounds. Extra battery packs are 10 pounds. In American dollars, that’s kind of a lot… $50 and $16, in round numbers. But it’s definitely a cool idea, right? It’s one step simpler than fiddling with normal rechargeable batteries, and it requires no charging cables like the PS3 controller. THE MAGIC OF ATOMIC-AGE POLYMERS BRINGS THE FUTURE TO YOU, TODAY.
A brief product movie and full press release are after the jump.
Aeropodcast #97: No News is Good News
By Joe Haygood | August 31, 2009
This week, the Aeropodcast goes through a few changes to cut down on the time, because at the end of the day, all of us realize that people do not want a two hour podcast. It is okay when it happens on occasion, but as of late, two hours seems to have been the norm.
The biggest change is that we have dropped the news section. Our podcast is meant to be a podcast that has all of us as joint hosts, and the news section normally has me rambling, with the occasional note or correction from my co-hosts for the week. It normally does not bring a lot of discussion, and I want our podcast to be a joint effort, with everyone participating. Hopefully you like this decision, and while this week does not reflect the cut down in length due to a meaty topic, you should see podcasts come down to a more drivetime like experience. We are shooting for under one and a half hours at most.
Let us know what you think via voice mail at 206-339-8362, email at tips@aeropause.com and in the forums. Do you like the podcast without the news, or are you missing out on your weekly news information. The podcast is mixed together by our resident DJ, Stephen “Kid Capri” Munn, and features music by Revolution Void. You can find their music at www.revolutionvoid.com.
Download the podcast from here or subscribe to the podcast using one of the services below: Also make sure to review us on iTunes.
Batman: Arkham Asylum is as awesome as you have heard
By Joe Fourhman | August 26, 2009
I can’t even legitimately do a First Thirty for this one, because I just had to force myself away from an uninterrupted four-hour jag on it. And with only 15% on the completion clock.
Batman: Arkham Asylum is a triumph (he declares after one night!) This is a solid, polished experience that will be the new super-hero game standard. I can’t come up with any real gripes about my first four hours with the game, except that I feel it errs on the Legend of Zelda side of easiness. IE, on the medium difficulty, I’m really not dying all that much. Yet. But when a game provides so much to do, and lies so lush with details, I’ll happily not care about that.
Arkham manages to dovetail two pursuits that often appear mutually exclusive: linear storytelling and free-roaming gameplay. Example: I just finished a fairly straight-forward jaunt through a maze-like decrepit building with some specific set tasks, followed by a boss fight (You have to hit him three times! It’s like a Sonic boss!) But instead of forever locking me out of that building, it sits there empty so I can go back in at any time to search for unlockables and other secrets. With a nod to Metroid, some hidden elements require equipment upgrades that I have yet to find.
Somebody tell me if these bands are any good
By Joe Fourhman | July 24, 2009
The coming of the Rock Band Network, aside from instigating all sorts of snorts about GHTunes, is still rather mysterious. The service will let bands (of any size, amateur to pro) upload their tracks directly to Harmonix to be note-charted and sold on the Rock Band Store.
While we may not know exactly how this audio voodoo will turn garage bands into DLC gold, we do have a growing list of indie bands who have vowed to sign up. The confirmed list has more details, but here’s the roster:
Alchemilla, Anarchy Club, The Cold Goodnight, Father Octopus, Freerider, Full-Source, Giant Target, The Holepunch Generation, Lead the Dead, The Main Drag, Matter in the Medium, Myriad Burial, Oliver Pride, Ploy of Oracle, Rose of Jericho, Sarah VonderHaar, Speck, Steve and Lindley Band, Terrorhorse, Verse Versus Chorus, Wounded Soul
The only one of those I’ve even come close to hearing before is Speck… because, guess what, they’re in Rock Band 2 with the peppy nerdlurve song “Conventional Lover.” Can anybody make some tentative recommendations based on the other confirmed bands?
If you have a band, start watching creators.rockband.com for info. Songs presented through the Rock Band Network will debut on the Xbox 360 version of Rock Band first (why?) but will come to the other consoles eventually.
Source: Rock Band forums
Pic Source (because I knew you’d wonder): Bad Band Photos
Would you know there was a free Rock Band song in this bottle?
By Joe Fourhman | July 9, 2009
We had previously mentioned the Pepsi Rock Band contest, but at the time the press release was mainly about the Make A Video contest and was sort of vague about the “Rock Band stuff” you could win just by purchasing bottles of Pepsi.
Since then, I had totally forgotten about the contest until I pulled an empty Pepsi out of the trash in my office (it was in the PAPER RECYCLE BIN, DUH.) You can see said bottle above… would you have any idea that there’s a sweet Rock Band contest code awaiting under the cap? Total marketing fail! No wonder somebody tried to recycle it.
I braved unknown germs and had officemate Josh take off the cap. Then I ventured to pepsirockband.com to see if I won anything. This promotion is tied in with Yahoo, so your Yahoo login info will all carry over. Entering this code got me a single point, which I could then gamble on a chance to win various prizes… a 360, one of those RB Rocker sculptures, and more. I chose to spend my code on a chance for a free Rock Band DLC song. They’re giving out 5000 of those a day. This isn’t like that great Pepsi/iTunes promotion where you definitely always got a free download with every code. But the odds were with me and I won. The DLC delivery service generates a token code based on which console you want (PS3, 360, Wii), and the available song list filters according to platform.
But seriously, how about some Rock Band branding on those bottles, gang? The only clue that something wonderful is afoot is a Rock Band icon on the yellow cap.
My slightly embarrassing free song is comfortably nestled after the jump.
Microsoft goes flip-mode
By Mike Koss | June 6, 2009
If there’s one thing that’s evident after this year’s E3, it’s that Microsoft’s Xbox 360 has finally blossomed.When the 360 launched, Microsoft’s ad attack focused on selling a game console. Over the past years, Microsoft has been slowly adding extra media capabilities in the form of Netflix, and now last.fm. Out of the gate, Microsoft realized that what’s going to sell their hardware was games, games, and games. And the first few years of the 360 brought about some of the most exciting titles of this generation: Gears of War, Left 4 Dead, Fable, etc.
Sony on the other hand, did the opposite. The PS3 was, until this year, always billed as the entertainment media center that belonged in every household’s family room. Each year, Sony promised more riveting games, and always seem to fall short for one reason or another. One thing that did stay prevalent was providing a multimedia platform that brought new, free ways of enjoying entertainment, that wasn’t based on video games.
So what happened?
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