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I tell ya, it’s been a good long while since I’ve had to write a post that’s not really about baseball and it’s got me rather at a loss of what to do. Instead of focusing on one topic today, instead let’s look at a variety of things going on that I care about: Peter Molyneux has got a problem. You see, he’s one of the movers and shakers in video game design and his ideas have more or less shaped the industry as a whole. For example, while you can argue that Ultima or Fallout did it first, Peter and his boys at Lionhead popularized the whole good vs. evil aesthetic that so pervades the medium right now with his landmark title Black & White. You can’t really argue that his game made it cool for the visual look of a character to change dynamically with alignment that Bioware eventually used in their epics Knights of the Old Republic and Mass Effect. ...

Breaking news: Following the departure of Jeff Green from the GFW magazine, it seems that my actual favorite member of GFW, Shawn Elliot, is also splitting to head to 2k Boston, the game studio responsible for Bioshock. While I applaud his career move out of the sinking ship that is GFW, I have to say that I will really miss his presence on 1Up podcasts. Best of luck to you out there in Boston, we’ll miss you man. ...

Insert another credit, because it’s time for your weekly video game news and you’ve just hit the Game Overview screen. In one of the more perplexing DLC moves, Harmonix has released the single “Charlene (I’m Right Behind You)” the “80s song by Stephen and the Colbert’s” on Rock Band. It’s pretty hilarious to see and, as it has been pointed out, a brilliant move to synergize corporate products by Viacom who owns both Comedy Central and Harmonix. ...

Insert another credit, because it’s time for your weekly video game news and you’ve just hit the Game Overview screen. (SPOILER NOTE: Tim’s review, my review, and some of this post have MGS spoilers. Read at your own risk) I’ve taken a few excerpts from Tim Rogers’ brilliant review of Metal Gear Solid 4 and I’m going to talk about them a bit. He totally threw us for a loop, revealing the game that is NOT ABDN’s best game of all-time, but revealing a game he firmly believes not to be. Let’s get started: ...

Deep from the trenches, it’s time for your Monday video feature: Embedded Reporter. Just a quick little trailer from E3 for a multiplatform game called I Am Alive. The cool, intriguing part of the trailer is that there’s no mention of just what destroyed Chicago and word from Ubisoft is that the game will actually be character development and problem solving oriented. I hope they deliver on this neat concept with a great game, cause I’m already down for it based on the trailer. ...

It’s time for the moment many of you have been waiting for: my review of Hideo Kojima’s epic masterpiece: Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots. SPOILER ALERT: This review may contain story spoilers. Read at your own risk! Operating mostly on the basis of a promised beautiful, cinematic, amazing future of games, the PS3 launched back in November of 2006 with many of its purchasers anxiously awaiting the arrival of one specific game: Metal Gear Solid 4. Arriving quite some time later, is this the game to finally make the PS3 a worthwhile purchase? Let’s have a look. ...

Insert another credit, because it’s time for your weekly video game news and you’ve just hit the Game Overview screen. I’ve talked about how dedicated Capcom is to the old-school aesthetic of Mega Man 9, but just how dedicated are they? Below is the “boxart” for the DLC game: See More Mega Man 9 Box Art at IGN.com If you remember back to my 8-Bit All-Stars post, you might remember me talking about the Mega Man 2 boxart as being nonsensical for the anime-cutesy style of the game. This is such a return to the old school that it makes me kind of pumped for this game. ...

It’s one of the most anticipated trailers of the year, the Japanese trailer of FF XIII. Note that the blog category is Sony and doesn’t include M$, but this is because this is the Japanese trailer, a region where FF XIII will not see a 360 release. Behold the trailer of the game Square Enix is calling flashier than than the Final Fantasy games that preceded it. It starts out in typical Final Fantasy fashion, but definitely flashes it up when the combat starts to show up. I’m definitely excited about the new direction and new protagonist. ...

Many a developer has come out saying that console exclusives just don’t make any sense in this new, expensive game development environment. That being said, I’m pretty sure no one on earth outside of Square Enix could possibly have predicted that Final Fantasy XIII will be simultaneously launching on both the Xbox 360 and PS3 in North America and Europe (whenever the game launches). To help give this mind-blowing announcement some perspective, the last main series Final Fantasy game (that wasn’t a remake or port) to be released on a non-Sony platform was Final Fantasy VI for the SNES back in 1994. ...

E3 started yesterday and the amazing Rock Band 2 tracklist was announced in a press conference. I could gush about a ton of these songs in massive detail, but instead I’ll just post the list and let the tracks speak for themselves (list borrowed from this IGN article): # Artists Song Title Decade 1. AC/DC Let There Be Rock 1970s 2. AFI Girl’s Gone Grey 2000s 3. Alanis Morissette You Oughta Know 1990s 4. Alice in Chains Man in the Box 1990s 5. Allman Brothers Ramblin’ Man 1970s 6. Avenged Sevenfold Almost Easy 2000s 7. Bad Company Shooting Star 1970s 8. Beastie Boys So Whatcha Want 1990s 9. Beck E-Pro 2000s 10. Bikini Kill Rebel Girl 1990s 11. Billy Idol White Wedding Pt. I 1980s 12. Blondie One Way or Another 1970s 13. Bob Dylan Tangled Up in Blue 1970s 14. Bon Jovi Livin’ on a Prayer 1980s 15. Cheap Trick Hello There 1970s 16. Devo Uncontrollable Urge 1980s 17. Dinosaur Jr. Feel the Pain 1990s 18. Disturbed Down with the Sickness 2000s 19. Dream Theater Panic Attack 2000s 20. Duran Duran Hungry Like the Wolf 1980s 21. Elvis Costello Pump It Up 1970s 22. Fleetwood Mac Go Your Own Way 1970s 23. Foo Fighters Everlong 1990s 24. Guns N’ Roses Shackler’s Revenge 2000s 25. Interpol PDA 2000s 26. Jane’s Addiction Mountain Song 1980s 27. Jethro Tull Aqualung 1970s 28. Jimmy Eat World The Middle 2000s 29. Joan Jett Bad Reputation 1980s 30. Journey Anyway You Want It 1970s 31. Judas Priest Painkiller 1990s 32. Kansas Carry On Wayward Son 1970s 33. L7 Pretend We’re Dead 1990s 34. Lacuna Coil Our Truth 2000s 35. Linkin Park One Step Closer 2000s 36. Lit My Own Worst Enemy 1990s 37. Lush De-Luxe 1990s 38. Mastodon Colony of Birchmen 2000s 39. Megadeth Peace Sells 1980s 40. Metallica Battery 1980s 41. Mighty Mighty Bosstones Where’d You Go 1990s 42. Modest Mouse Float On 2000s 43. Motorhead Ace of Spades 1980s 44. Nirvana Drain You 1990s 45. Norman Greenbaum Spirit in the Sky 1960s 46. Panic at the Disco Nine in the Afternoon 2000s 47. Paramore That’s What You Get 2000s 48. Pearl Jam Alive 1990s 49. Presidents of the USA Lump 1990s 50. Rage Against the Machine Testify 1990s 51. Ratt Round & Round 1980s 52. Red Hot Chili Peppers Give it Away 1990s 53. Rise Against Give it All 2000s 54. Rush The Trees 1970s 55. Silversun Pickups Lazy Eye 2000s 56. Smashing Pumpkins Today 1990s 57. Social Distortion I Was Wrong 1990s 58. Sonic Youth Teenage Riot 1980s 59. Soundgarden Spoonman 1990s 60. Squeeze Cool for Cats 1970s 61. Steely Dan Bodhitsattya 1970s 62. Steve Miller Band Rock’n Me 1970s 63. Survivor Eye of the Tiger 1980s 64. System of a Down Chop Suey 2000s 65. Talking Heads Psycho Killer 1970s 66. Tenacious D Master Exploder 2000s 67. Testament Souls of Black 1990s 68. The Donnas New Kid in School 2000s 69. The Go-Go’s We Got the Beat 1980s 70. The Grateful Dead Alabama Getaway 1980s 71. The Guess Who American Woman 1970s 72. The Muffs Kids in America 1990s 73. The Offspring Come Out & Play (Keep ’em Separated) 1990s 74. The Replacements Alex Chilton 1980s 75. The Who Pinball Wizard 1960s Bonus Tracks 76. Abnormality Visions 2000s 77. Anarchy Club Get Clean 2000s 78. Bang Camaro Night Lies 2000s 79. Breaking Wheel Shoulder to the Plow 2000s 80. The Libyans Neighborhood 2000s 81. The Main Drag A Jagged Gorgeous Winter 2000s 82. Speck Conventional Lover 2000s 83. The Sterns Supreme Girl 2000s 84. That Handsome Devil Rob the Prez-O-Dent 2000s ...