GameSpoon - Threats of injuring your Lateral Malleolus in Rockband.

Do real drummers have this same issue?

Over the last weekend I had a chance to "beat" Rockband 2, but not without a cost. I was playing my solo world tour on drums when I felt a slight pain above my ankle. I was playing a warmup show before playing a sold out show in Shanghi when I first noticed the pain. I played through the slight annoyance, not thinking any more pain would come.

I was wrong.

I got to Shanghi to rock the socks off of millions of virtual fans. After about the third song [of eight], I started to notice this slight pain to be a little more than slight. after the fifth song, it got a bit unbearable. Knowing that I could not dissappoint my "fans" I trudged through it. By the time I had played 'Tallica's "Battery" and "Eye of the Tiger" by Survivor, I was in a conciderable amount of pain. Not even the games "ending" made me feel better.

This may be a worthless story, yes I know this. But the fact that I injured myself playing a video game kind of pisses me off.

RandomSpoon - A SNL Short - NSFW

This is a Saturday Night Live digital short of pure awesome-ness, turn it up!

GameSpoon - Halo 3 Lucky Throw

A lot of people have already experienced this video, featured on MLG, but it is new to me. I felt compelled to add this video to The Spoon!

I know that Bungie, at times, awards the coveted Halo 3 Recon Armor to people that pull off the seemingly impossible - like what happens in this video. I hope the person who threw that plasma grenade, woke up one morning to find some fancy, new armor waiting for him/her; they deserve it!

GameSpoon - Zero Punctuation: Sonic Unleashed

Okay, okay, we're up-to-date now...Yahtzee's review of this game, just about caused me to piss myself, cheers Yahtzee!

GameSpoon - Zero Punctuation: Mirror's Edge

This post is a supplement for SpoonThrash's post earlier this week -

GameSpoon - Zero Punctuation: Fallout 3

Yes, we've been a little behind with keeping up-to-date with Zero Punctutation, but here's the best review I've ever watched:

TubeSpoon - The IT Crowd

"The elders of the Internet know who I am!"

Thanks to D.Q. in Ireland for introducing this to us; definitely worth watching! Pay attention to the 9:26 mark...ha, awesome.

RandomSpoon - Snow in Las Vegas

So this happened...



...I guess I'm speechless, yet in awe of how awesome that is and lastly, wondering how the roads were - as I'm sure "Las Vegians" are not used to driving under those conditions!

GameSpoon - Club Nintendo

Finally, a Club worth joining...best of all, it's free! While all the uber-rich pricks pack their trunks up with their golfing gear and head out to their respective, exclusive country club. You can finally look at them with even more pity, fully knowing that they have chosen the wrong club. While they gain nothing from Nintendo, you'll gain everything...THE WORLD!

Go to club.nintendo.com and register today! Create an account, register your games, earn coins and get some righteous swag! What could be better?

Thanks Nintendo, you're the best!

JapanSpoon - killer foot massage machine

Why the hell didn't anyone alert me of this story earlier!?

Here's the situation: three people were killed by a foot massage machine in Japan! It is sad to hear about anyone losing their life, but man, what a way to go.

Now, I know what you're thinking, "how the hell did a foot massage machine turn into a foot massage killing machine?" Apparently, user error is too blame. These three individuals - (aka targets of a ninja disguised as a foot massage machine) - used the product, which was meant for their feet, on their necks and shoulders. What happened was that the rollers in the machine, grabbed a hold of the shirt and strangled the individuals. In all honesty, that is sad news. The engineers who developed the product, should have accounted for something like this in their design. But seriously, "killed by a foot massage machine" - wtf?!

Thanks to Gizmodo for the story.

GameSpoon - Review of a Demo; Mirrors Edge

This is a 14 button combination move

Here is a quick review of the Mirrors Edge Demo:
Conceptually, this game is very neat..... but it is executed poorly. The Jump and Duck buttons are the LB and LT buttons respectively, which makes for very awkward game play at its core. This game will devinetly give you hand cramps. There are plenty of things that you can "do" but it all involves too much timing and coincidence.

Basically, a first person street runner game is kind of weird...........

Buy it: No
Rent it: No

TubeSpoon - Heroes

Ditch that zero and get with a hero....

It has been a strange season to say the least. Hiro a 10 year old? Peter lost his powers [again]? Arthur Patrelli is alive and wants to right the world by destroying it? Nikki Saunders is Tracy Strauss, but not really because they were genetically created? Syler is brothers with Peter and Nathan....................and becomes a wuss in the future?????

Then they fired some writers..........

Now things are back to normal:
Nathan thinks he is doing good but in all actuallity is not - Awesome
Sylar is a killer again - Awesome
Peter is whiny again, just without his powers - Awesome
Hiro became the greatest hero ever, then fucked it up within seconds - Awesome.

See, what I am saying is that there was a reason why season 1 was so popular. If they stick to that theme for the rest of the season, it could possibly be saved.......... saved........... could the writers be the REAL heroes of this show?

GameSpoon - Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix

SpoonThrash, are you sitting down? Good.

The folks at VideoGamer.com have revealed that Capcom's kick-ass Street Fighter HD release was almost canned! How could this happen? You ask. I'll tell you why - because of the art work.

Apparently, earlier this year, all the art work for SSFIIHDR had to be redone by a different team of artists. According to producer Rey Jimenez and an interview VideoGamer.com had with lead designer David Sirlin:

"Without going into the nitty-gritty of it, the art they were producing just wasn't up to par or schedule of what we needed. To be honest, a lot of their art was looking pretty good, but just not 'good enough'. It just wouldn't satisfy the quality bar that both Capcom and Street Fighter fans demand. Once Udon and Capcom agreed to go with that route, we had to essentially reboot the whole art pipeline. The character art pretty much started over from scratch with new reference art from Udon" (Jimenez).

When asked if he ever felt that Capcom might cancel the game, Sirlin told VideoGamer.com: "Yeah that was a possibility. It felt the most possible during that first phase during the art that we had to throw away. It was unspoken but everyone just knew it that if that art wasn't going to work out then maybe they were going to cancel the whole thing" (Sirlin).

This explains why it took so long for the game to launch, but I'm quite pleased that the game was released; the world would be a much darker place without it.

FlickSpoon - Terminator: Salvation

SpoonRavis just sent this my way. I don't know about any of you, but I believe this movie will not only re-invent the Terminator series, but it will be the best film yet!

Click here to watch the trailer at Apple.com

"Devil's hands have been busy"

GameSpoon - Tekken 6

Tekken has been my favorite fighting series since the game launched on the original Playstation in the US. The speed of the game, the variety of styles and the unique control over the characters captivated me instantly.

Since my first experience with the game, I have always done my best to keep up with the series' releases and it's hard to ignore it when trailers, such as this one, are released!

This trailer, showcased for the "Atari Live" press event, gives you a glimpse at the gameplay of Tekken 6. This will be the first title, that I'm aware of, that will not only be released for the Playstation, but will be released on a non-Sony platform as well - the Xbox 360!

It'll be interesting to see the differences between the PS3 and Xbox 360 versions. I wonder how this change will affect the series, will any previous versions of the game be released on the Xbox Live Arcade to help promote the release? We'll see in "Autumn of 2009"...well, time to go hibernate.

GameSpoon - CTF Video

RandomSpoon - Just for SpoonThrash

Merry X-mas -

RATT - "Round and Round"


Winger - "Seventeen"


Skid Row - "Youth Gone Wild"


and the grand finale...Poison - "Nothin' But a Good Time". You'll just have to go there yourself.

Peace out homie

RandomSpoon - Super Mario Bros 2, gypsy-jazz style

Kotaku posted on this and I felt it was a perfect video to add to The Spoon - seeing how we covered Django Reinhardt earlier this year.

In the video below, you'll see a guy playing the music from Super Mario Bros. 2 in Django's gypsy-jazz style. It's quite impressive! If you don't think it is, just because you don't care for jazz, then think again! Take my word, as an experienced guitarist (in rock, metal, blues, jazz), this guy has chops:

GameSpoon - Brothers In Arms (iPhone)

Um...cool?

BlackFridaySpoon - Why people? Why?

We're back! We all had a great Thanksgiving holiday...including a 9 hour stint of Super Street Fighter 2 HD Remix and MK vs DC over at SpoonThrash's place. But, all good things must come to an end and we're back to the grind.

Cruising through Kotaku this morning, I saw this video that they posted. I thought, "yep, this needs to go on the spoon," so here you go:



People on Black Friday are psychotic...poor woman in the white t-shirt, she had no shot. All she needed to do was throw some elbows and gouge some eyes and she would have been home free. That was a woman...right?