Well now you can't take Rock Band seriously anymore

Some of next week's Rock Band DLC aren't your typical rock songs. In fact, some of the songs in this new pack have no rock (likely no real band either) in them. Behold, Spongebob Squarepants! Yeah, I know. Like you, I just threw up in my mouth. But seriously, who doesn't want "I Can't Keep My Eyes Off of You", "Best Day Ever", and of course, the sensation that's sweeping the nation, "Where's Gary?"! Man, oh man. The next thing you know, we'll be seeing Sesame Street in Rock Band Junior Edition.

-My sweet MS paint skills at work.

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I Can Do Backflips Too

As you can see, I have started to incorporate news into my blog. Why? Because I like following the news despite some flaws in gaming news coverage (listen to Rebel FM podcast episode 12). I am not hoping to correct those flaws, in fact, I'm not concerned about every single tiny detail of the story. I'm just concerned about my reaction and the gaming community's reaction to the news. Most of my stories will come from 1up.com's news coverage, because I don't get out of the house much and am too lazy to fly across the country to PAX, E3, or GDC. I will credit the source in all of my blog posts and post a link to the full, in-depth story most of the time. My goal is for this site to have casual news coverage for people who care enough to read it, and links to the real story for the people who care for more complete news coverage. Now that I'm done telling you to go to a different site besides mine (don't), have a news-filled day folks (don't expect me to report on it)!

Square Enix Officially Aquires Eidos

If you wanted an epic Tomb Raider RPG, you'll be in heaven right now.

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OnLive reveals a "Cloud Gaming" Service

At GDC this week, the company OnLive revealed a gaming service that streams games to your PC or Mac that run at 60 fps with no hiccups no matter your hardware specs. Personally, I am really psyched for this because I've sort of stopped gaming on my PC because all of the new games are too graphically intensive for my computer to handle. All you need is a 1.5 megabytes-per-second internet connection for standard definition (480p) and a 5.0 megabytes-per-second for HD (720p). The games run through OnLive's servers, so you could be playing them on just about anything. Many publishers have also jumped on the bandwagon, including Atari, Eidos, Codemasters, Electronic Arts, Epic, Take-Two, THQ, and Ubisoft. I'm sure that retailers are going to be a bit pissed about this, but this is definitely the future of gaming. Expect a beta sometime during the summer and a full launch around winter.

-Hopefully I'll be playing this in about a half a year.

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