The re-emergence of Bones Wiley.

August 12, 2008

We’ve been urging Bones Wiley to update his website, as we know he’s been hard at work coming up with lyrics and new tunes now that he’s back in the United States. While there’s no update just yet, there’s a new video up on YouTube under the name FolkClouds. The video shows a dark figure [...]

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It’s time for instrument standards in music games.

May 20, 2008

So Rock Band brought the music party game genre to a new level when it added drums and a microphone to complement the guitar scene. What it did best, however, was make subtle improvements on the existing crop of guitar controllers, but leave the general mechanics in place. Apparently, Guitar Hero IV will jump on [...]

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Legacy copy protection better than the new stuff.

May 14, 2008

Is anyone surprised that the copy protection announced for Mass Effect and Spore is being reconsidered? In short, publishers Bioware and EA, respectively, initially decided to include a copy protection mechanism that would cause the aforementioned games to “phone home” every ten days to ensure that the game played was legitimately purchased. The ten-day authentication [...]

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Transmutation of CDs/DVDs into records.

May 11, 2008

It’s an alchemical breakthrough: the transmutation of optical media to an older, analog format. According to Boing Boing, Aleks Kolkowski is using a vintage record cutter to cut grooves into CDs/DVDs such that they can be played on a record player. This physical mutilation obviously destroys the ability to keep playing the old CDs/DVDs in [...]

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Bringing back the bones.

April 16, 2008

Some time back, we stopped paying attention to Bones Wiley’s web site, because he was outta town and knew he wouldn’t be updating it anytime soon. As it happens, his web site broke during that time, and only a few days ago did we manage to pick the old database and put Wiley’s old content [...]

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MacBook owners: No Guitar Hero 3 for you!

December 1, 2007

It was good news that Guitar Hero 3 (GH3) was shipping for both Windows and OS X, and this fact prompted us to pick up a copy of the OS X version as a Christmas gift for Bones Wiley, who’s stuck in Europe without an Internet connection. We thought that GH3 would keep him busy [...]

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