Last night was the US’s first night with the beta for Xbox’s new “Primetime” game show 1 vs 100 (Canada was able to beta test a few weeks prior). In 1 vs 100, everyone is competing for prizes. The One is a randomly selected player who is competing angainst the mob, 100 other randomly selected players. The crowd is everyone else, in last night’s case, over 50,000 people. Everyone gets asked the same multiple choice question (or in some cases, multiple guess) and get rated on the speed of answering the question and weather or not the answer is correct. Members of the mob get “knocked out” if they get a question incorrect. The One’s job is rto keep answering the questions right and to hope that the mob gets eliminated. Different Microsoft point values get set depending on how many mob members are left and the One can choose to take the money if they so choose. However, of they answer incorrectly then they get nothing and the mob gets the points. The top three crowd players get a prize at the end of the game. Questions range from questions about Twitter to questions about rappers in a recent Burger King commercial. There is no system of difficulty in questions as we found out, an imposssie question would be followed by a simple one. All in all it makes fora different style of game show and I find the interaction makes it more fun. Good job Microsoft, you won E3 and created a real gem with 1 vs 100.

Its been a year since I’ve last updated the blog, and nothing really happened. As far as video games are concerned, I got Rock Band 2, Gears of War 2, and Left 4 Dead. All great games, however I only play Rock Band 2 on a regular basis, so much of a regular basis that I have worn out the drums and have ordered a set of replacement pads from GoodWood Mods. I just got them so I am still testing it out. I have noticed that it doesn’t register every hit, which is annoying because it will be impossible to 100% or full combo a song. Hopefully it is just an easy fix I need to make. Read more »

I have had a Microsoft Zune for just under a year now, and I am pretty satisfied with it. I have gotten all the updates when they came out, and was glad when they came out with the latest 2.5 firmware update. This update includes the ability to purchase TV shows from a hand full of networks. That wont kill an iPod as Apple already has TV shows and Movies for rent/purchase. Something Apple and their iPods don’t have is a subscription option. Read more »

Rock Band’s drum kit sucks. There’s no way around it. I learned this the hard way when I was playing Welcome Home on expert. I was almost done with the song and the bass kicker pedal snapped in half. Quickly I did a Google search on the Internets and found that quite a few people have had this “problem”. On eBay, I found a company called Mega Pedal who sell metal pedals for your Rock Band Drum kit. Intrigued I saw they had 3 different versions. Two are metal pieces that screw on to the plastic petal, and one that was a full chunk of metal. I ordered the full metal one and they shipped it the same day they got the order. Read more »