While those lucky few who placed their Xbox 360 reserve in early enough were able to sleep happily on November 21, 2005, everyone else wanting a Xbox 360 camped outside of stores that did not pre-sell the game console, including Best Buy, Target, K-Mart and Walmart.
Both Magic Numbers and Feist were solid opening bands, but Bright Eyes really shone Nov. 19 at the Academy of Music.
I woke up to the sound of drums. It was the middle of the night, and someone was marching around banging on a large bass drum? I had forgotten where I was: Bo?azkale, a small town 100 miles east of Turkey's capital city. To wake the entire village for breakfast before sunrise, the drummers would have to start at the town center at 3 a.
Many Philadelphians milling by the Walnut Street Theatre may notice the multitude of fliers proclaiming "BE OUR GUEST," beckoning potential audience members through the doors and into the seats.
For the first time ever, Drexel students have teamed up with World Cafe Live to give college students a chance to perform and record their music.
In something that can only adequately be described as a sleepwalk of a movie, The Ice Harvest is a self-appointed neo-noir that, for all of its self-consciously black humor, takes a series of surprisingly safe routes and ends up a stagnant load of nothing.
You know that really cool band from Brooklyn called Clap Your Hands Say Yeah? Okay. Dirty on Purpose shares nothing with them besides a postal code. It seems like every band these days sounds so "Indie" or so "Brooklyn." Well, here's a change. Dirty on Purpose just plain sounds good.
It starts quick. You try to take the eastern bridge in a small French town, but it explodes first, so you go to take the western bridge.
After changing platforms three times, Joanna Dark has finally found a home on the Xbox 360 just in time for its launch. Originally set for the GameCube and then changed to the original Xbox, Perfect Dark Zero barely made the Nov. 25 launch of the Xbox 360.
What's that, you say? A third-person-shooter that lets you play as Sean Connery's James Bond?
The racer riddled with shells, banana peels, mushrooms and the despised blue Spiny shell is back with its fifth appearance in the franchise's 13-year existence.
Why not sooner? That's probably the biggest question I have regarding Guitar Hero.
Call of Duty 2 plays a lot like the original game, which is definitely a good thing. Infinity Ward's Call of Duty games have differentiated themselves from other games by presenting a quickly successive mission schema based on changing objectives. While games like Doom 3 leave the player to "go here and kill things," Call of Duty 2 is not afraid to put killing as a secondary function when a mission requires it.
