No word of this online yet, so I’m wondering if there’s just a bad box of Jedi floating around in my neck of the woods.  I’ve made no secret of my work in a retail/rental games outlet (keen listeners to the bitcast should know the franchise I pimp for).  Over the past few days we’ve had three returns of Force Unleashed PS3.  Three.  To put that into perspective, it’s almost October and these are the first game returns that we’ve had due to brand new defective product all year.  That sounds like a lot more than coincidence to me.

All three returns had the same complaints — the game would freeze, be buggy when it worked, or wouldn’t load all together.  Not knowning their set ups, I can’t help but wonder if maybe the game isn’t running right on older firmware or if there was a patch at launch to fix these issues.  If these customers keep their consoles offline, maybe that’s what’s going on.

On a side note I’m playing the 360 version as we speak.  My only problem?  I need a towel the size of Texas to clean up after my nerdgasm.

Anyone else out there having issues?

Well well well, what have we here? Here’s the first shot of the Guitar Hero 4 drum kit, otherwise known as “Hey we can be like Rock Band too!” While each consumer here is certainly free to make his or her own choices about whether or not this is something to be excited about, but for me this is just another attempt by Neversoft to glob on to something better than what they’re able to handle themselves.

There’s been a lot of talk about whether or not this will be cross compatible with Rock Band, but since there’s 5 “pads” here I’m going to guess no. Besides, GH and Rock Band haven’t exactly been getting along up until now. I doubt I’ll ever buy a Guitar Hero game again.

This just in: next year’s Tony Hawk will control exactly like Skate.

Well, for PS3 owners anyway as far as my local Target is concerned.

Popping in yesterday to pick up Gran Turismo 5: Prologue after Gamestop tried to sell me an open copy at full price I noticed that Valve’s Orange Box was indeed marked and reduced to clearance prices… $29.99 for what most of us consider a fantastic package of games, and only a few months old. I realize that the PS3 version of The Orange Box was pretty inferior to the PC and 360 versions, but did it really sell THIS poorly?

There is still a big part of the world that see gamers in terms of stereotypes; telling us games are for kids and to grow up. So when you have a mainstream show like “Tyra Banks’ Show” that hosts a couple in which the guy happens to be a gamer, you would think that their “expert” would explain that video games are just a form of entertainment. A gamer is no different then say a movie buff. Now if the “expert” is X-play’s Morgan Webb, you would think that being in the gaming industry would give her a insight. Sadly this was not the case, she put us all into video game stereotypes. Now I remember why I hate X-play.

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