With a total of 19 stations to listen to as you drive around Liberty City in GTA 4 there is a ton of programming to listen to, from Reggae to Rock to Talk Radio. Some players even decide to turn off the music and listen to the sounds of Liberty City by themselves, the beautiful sounds of cab drivers cursing at you. My personal favorite station is San Juan Sounds, probably the first video game to include Reggaeton as a genre and even have Daddy Yankee as the DJ. What do you listen to as you mow down pedestrians on the way to the boardwalk and get some bowling in?
Here is the complete list of stations:
Electrochoc - Dance music
L.C.H.C. - Hardcore Rock
K109 The Studio - Disco music
IF99 - International funk
The Beat 102.7 - Hip - hop
Vladivostok FM - Russian music
The Classics 104.1 - Old school hip - hop
Fusion FM - Funk and Jazz
JNR 108.5 - Jazz
The Journey - Smooth music
Liberty Rock Radio 97.8 - Rock
Massive B Soundsystem 96.9 - Reggae
Radio Broker - Alternative Rock
San Juan Sounds - Reggaeton
Tuff Gong Radio - Reggae
The Vibe 98.8 - R&B
Integrity 2.0 - Talk radio
PLR - Talk radio
WKTT Talk Radio - Talk radio
This guy took Star Wars Galaxies and made a full blown music video using every one’s favorite bounty hunter, Mr. Fett. Fett dancing around and shooting the mechanic are pretty funny to watch.
What started out as a few blips and beeps has turned into full orchestral scores and original music by some of the world’s biggest bands. NPR has a great look at the history of music in our favorite past time.
The complexity of the music improved to the point where the score of a video game became almost indistinguishable from the music played in the finest concert halls. Wall went on to score the third and fourth installments of the Myst series, and he based the main theme for Myst III on Karl Orff’s Carmina Burana.
I remember the first time I heard the music in Zelda on the NES. I thought it was such a huge leap forward for video games. Now I look at things like Final Fantasy XII or Halo 3 or Uncharted and wonder what things will be like in another twenty years. We’ll probably have 10.1 channel sound cards embedded in our ears by that point.
I just cant get enough of these videos. These Mario games that this guy have made are full of detail and awesome to just look at and enjoy. The upgrades of the Covenant lase, Energy sword, shotgun and Marine machine gun are awesome. Even though it has the Halo theme running through it, it does retain that Mario feeling, which makes it even more awesome. Hearing that Halo music blare at the beginning and then seeing Mario show up on screen is just fantastic. Stay tuned as I dig up more of these for you guys to view.
This video announcing that World of Warcraft would be coming to home consoles had me rolling the second the music intro came on. I like how one of the taglines is that you can move in up to 8 unique directions, hehe. The cinematic music is what does it for me, then add in the bears at the very end and you have one winning video from our friends at Blizzard.
I always new Mario was ghetto, he pretty much kills creatures for a living, the plumber thing is all a front. Here we so a montage of Mario’s greatest “hits”, he takes out quite a few marks in this video, again confirming that Mario is connected.
Perhaps the funniest part of the video is Mario kicking the turtles off the ledge, comic genius. Great music and editing too, good job.
Ok RockBand is a cool game, but it doesn’t make you a real musician, sorry to break the news to everyone. These guys feel a bit differently and pretty much hijacked a Guitar Center to outfit their RockBand kit to look like a real band. Not only did they mod the drum kit with a real drum set, but they put up individual monitors for each person so people could watch them play?? I think this is a bit too far, I doubt anyone really wants to watch you play RockBand that badly.
OK so I am admitting to the fact that I am a noob, I have had a PSP for a long time and have had music and emulators on it, but never broke down and put videos on it. So I decided I would be taking a long trip in a few days and it was time to throw some videos on my 1 gig card to help make my travels seem quicker. I will list the steps below, please note that creating the root folder is the most important thing you need, this racked my brain and had me frustrated for a while but once you have that down it is all child’s play. I figured this may be useful for those of you that may invest in the new slim PSP and would like to watch donwloaded movies on your TV from your PSP. Read More »
Hothead Games announced that Penny Arcade Adventures: On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness will include an original song by nerdcore rapper MC Frontalot. Who the hell is that, you may ask? And what is nerdcore? Let us school you…
MC Frontalot is the stage name of Damian Hess, a musician and author currently based in Brooklyn. In late 1999, Damian pioneered the subgenre of rap music called nerdcore hip-hop, a movement that has metastasized into an internet phenomenon. Nerdcore’s live-audience draw grows yearly, with acts such as Frontalot, MC Chris, MC Lars, and Optimus Rhyme filling increasingly larger venues on national tours. Damian’s independently produced MC Frontalot tracks have earned a devoted audience and his two retail albums Nerdcore Rising (August 2005) and Secrets From The Future (April 2007) are in their fourth and third printings respectively. He is the official rapper of Penny Arcade (the web’s most popular comic with 3.5 million daily readers) and headlines at their annual convention to an audience of over 5,000.
Beats and rhymes about the nerdy stuff we like. Holla.
The Sex Pistols are getting back together to re-record their smash hit “Anarchy in the U.K.” for Guitar Hero III.
The Sex Pistols were an obvious choice for Guitar Hero, having established themselves as the definitive punk band of the 1970s. Unable to locate the original multi-tracks for inclusion in the game, Activision invited the band back into the studio to re-record a couple of songs including “Anarchy in the U.K.” Original members John Lydon on vocals, guitarist Steve Jones and drummer Paul Cook re-teamed with producer Chris Thomas, utilizing the original analog sound desk (circa 1969) that was built for George Martin at Air Studios, London, England in order to maintain the classic sound.
There looks to be a lot more master tracks in Guitar Hero III than previous games, which should add to the game. I can’t wait to start shredding to some new tracks.
We're like Spaceballs... we're making Loot Ninja everything. Coming soon we'll have hats, shirts, hoodies, possibly banana hammocks if one Editor has his way...
Check out the shirt prototypes here and the hats here
OK so I am admitting to the fact that I am a noob, I have had a PSP for a long time and have had music and emulators on it, but never broke down and put videos on it. So I decided I would be taking a long trip in a few days and it was time to throw some videos on my 1 gig card to help make my travels seem quicker. I will list the steps below, please note that creating the root folder is the most important thing you need, this racked my brain and had me frustrated for a while but once you have that down it is all child’s play. I figured this may be useful for those of you that may invest in the new slim PSP and would like to watch donwloaded movies on your TV from your PSP.
