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Why Robin Makes Batman Better On Sunday, March 29th, rock and roll hero and sometimes actor Jack Black returns to the Nickelodeon stage to host the 21st Annual Kids’ Choice Awards, where the stupid children decide who wins the awards! Now I know there are some pretty smart children out there, but they are all busy playing games like Portal or BioShock (with their stupid parents proudly ignoring them in the other room), thus the nominees for the 2008 Favorite Video Game Award: Dance Dance Revolution Guitar Hero High School Musical: Sing It! Madden NFL ’08
There’s really not much I can say here. I mean, Guitar Hero is nice and all, but they just list Guitar Hero…not II or III. Same with Dance Dance Revolution. There are 20 bajillion versions of DDR out there. Pick one! Madden 08 just goes to show that they were running out of kid-friendly titles to nominate, and if High School Musical: Sing It! wins? I am driving over to my nephew’s house and smacking him upside the head just for associating with people his own age.
Kids’ Choice Award’s Official Nominee Announcement [Nickelodeon]
IGN AU has a healthy interview with Tim Schafer, discussing Double Fine’s upcoming Full Throttle meets GRAW 2 game, Brütal Legend. Schafer mentions that Jack Black has lent his voice for the main character of Eddie, if you weren’t already aware, and that players will be able order around an army of headbangers to perform a variety of deeds – mainly hitting stuff. From the interview:
Well, it changes per mission, but in the next mission you might have, like, eight headbangers along with you, and you can control them by squad controls on the D-pad, so you press up on the D-pad to tell them to charge ahead, and you press down on the D-pad to get them to stop and defend the territory they’re on.
Oh, Tim, how we love you. Will he bring adventure gaming back to the masses in a new and entirely digestible form? That’s a yes.
To: Ash From: Crecente
So the Denver Press Club, which had offered up their usually vacant building to use the fundraiser I was thinking of doing in has unexpectedly, and with no notice, backed out. Apparently they can make more money renting the place for parties then donating it for a weekday night for charity. Go figure.
Anyway I hit up a new place tonight to see if I could sweet talk the price down. Even if I can’t I might just rent the place out of pocket, wtf. The best part? If I can get the place its got an honest to god stage, one used by many a well known musician. How kick ass would it be to play Guitar Hero 3 or Rock Band up there?
What you missed: Mystery Record (perhaps a charity item too) Jack Black’s first Brutal Legend Song, Sorta Eye of Judgment Play Super Smash Bros. Brawl Hands On Impressions Super Mario Galaxy Power Ups Revealed
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OK, the video of the mystery record ended up being super rambly, and at one point is interrupted by the UPS lady dropping off a package on my doorstep, but I suck at video editing, so sorry. :)
International House Of Mojo, a site primarily focused on LucasArts, Double Fine and Telltale Games coverage, recently ran a rumour on Tim Schafer and Double Fine’s unannounced next game. Dubbed Brutal Legend, the game allegedly stars actor and musician Jack Black as a roadie who dies, is banished to Hell and claw his way to Rock ‘N Roll Heaven.
The game is rumoured to be revealed at next week’s Games Convention in Leipzig, where Schafer will be keynoting on creativity. Of course, this is all rumour, as IHOM has since retracted its story, but it should be noted that Black has recently been spotted sporting the above pictured Whispering Rock Spring Summer Camp t-shirt from Double Fine’s previous effort Psychonauts.
Double Fine’s new game – Brutal Legend? [Google Cached IHOM via NeoGAF]
