If you have puzzled your way to the end of the brilliant Valve Game "Portal", then you got to hear the catchy little ditty "Still Alive" by composer Johnathan Coulton. If you have not made it to the end, then you can catch the song on YouTube.
During this year's Game Developer's Conference, Johnathan Coulton took the stage with his band of misfits to demonstrate "Still Alive" on Rock Band. Notice how TWiT leader Leo LaPorte rescues the rest of the band.
UPDATE: My mistake, after watching the video a second time, it was Veronica who was on lead guitar and rescued Leo who was playing bass. Darn mirror image.
Jonathan Coulton performs "Still Alive" in Rock Band from Joy Stiq on Vimeo.
Monday, February 25, 2008
Monday, February 18, 2008
Fwastration!
If you remember in our last post, I was singing the praises of Call of Duty 4: Modern Combat. The day after I posted that, "it" hit the fan. As near as I can tell, the issues began with PunkBuster. If you are not familiar with that program, PB is an anti-cheating program that runs with many online multi-player computer games. The problems began when I would fire up CofD4 multi-player, I would get into a game and within 30 to 45 seconds, PB would kick me out. Frustrating.
I went to the PB website and installed the latest update to PB. Now, when I go to the multi-player server screen... nothing! Not one single game would show up. Firmly believing that not everyone in the world gave up on CofD4 at the same moment, I went to my router's manufacturer's website to download a firmware update. That killed my entire home network.
It took a week and lots of trial and error to get the home network back up and running. The network is up, but still no multi-player games for CofD4. That means I get to take back all of the cool things I said about CofD4. With no multi-player, the game is a very quick First Person Shooter.
As for playing games online, very few multi-player games are showing up for Team Fortress 2 and Counter Strike. My head is telling me that I'm having a firewall issue, but I disabled the firewall for a few minutes and had the same minuscule results. It looks like it's back to Peggle for me.
I went to the PB website and installed the latest update to PB. Now, when I go to the multi-player server screen... nothing! Not one single game would show up. Firmly believing that not everyone in the world gave up on CofD4 at the same moment, I went to my router's manufacturer's website to download a firmware update. That killed my entire home network.
It took a week and lots of trial and error to get the home network back up and running. The network is up, but still no multi-player games for CofD4. That means I get to take back all of the cool things I said about CofD4. With no multi-player, the game is a very quick First Person Shooter.
As for playing games online, very few multi-player games are showing up for Team Fortress 2 and Counter Strike. My head is telling me that I'm having a firewall issue, but I disabled the firewall for a few minutes and had the same minuscule results. It looks like it's back to Peggle for me.
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