Shiny Video Preview: Kat plays Rock Band for the first time


Yesterday, as promised, I got hands-on with Rock Band. Now, this will be old news for our US readers, but I was so excited, after waiting months and months for a chance.

It has been given a release date here in the UK of May 23rd, with the price looking set to start at £130…just for the instruments. Take a look in the video above to see me trying my hand at each of the instruments, including the microphone.

WARNING: I am extremely tone-deaf and have never done karaoke sober before. Watch at your own risk.

A Wii AND 360-hybrid console? With HD PVR and an iPod dock? SE2 Labs' Integrated Theater Console says yes

ITC-console.jpgCheck out this behemoth…err…um…what on earth is it?! Some as-yet-untransformed Transformer? Sadly it’s not a character from an edited-out scene, if you look a bit harder, it’s actually an Xbox 360/Wii/HD PVR/home theatre system/iPod dock/Netlinx control box hybrid.

Or the SE2 Labs’ Integrated Theater Console, if you want to get specific. It’s pretty much every piece of kit you…

Friend afflicted with the Red Ring of Death disease? Buy 'em a condolence card on Etsy

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Gary has been busy skiving, err, sorry, scouring Etsy for homemade goodies over at Xboxer, and uncovered this condolence card for unfortunate souls plagued with the Red Ring of Death virus. You’d think once the situation got this bad, where people started making bloody cards expressing their sorrow over the 360s breaking down, Microsoft would wake up and realise something might indeed be wrong with the machines they’re shipping.

But noooo. Owners are still reporting their Xbox 360s are facing the same problems since launch, and Microsoft are still taking an age to send the refurbished RRoD machines out in replacement. It…