Heck yeah, i love these promotions and i got a Free in Game Robot. This could be as cool as the Mountain Dew Halo Promo, but it's hard to top the Master Chief!!!

If you play WoW, at least make sure you get your free robot!

Guitar Hero in some ways, started the big push for Rhythm games. They were not the first of their kind, but they made the Genre huge. Before Guitar Hero there were Frets on Fire and other games based in Japan, being the same concept. Play as the guitarist and rock out. Enough said. These games have been fun and all have rocked, even Aerosmith got you moving and Rocking. So for the first time ever, I am severely angry with a Guitar Hero game,Smash Hits.

It is not that I don't expect it to be fun, but I feel this title is severely recycled, but that was the point. It is the "best" songs from all Guitar Heroes before GH: Aerosmith. Now all the songs are being redone to support all instruments that was in World Tour and Metallica. That's not really my problem, normally I would not care so much, because there is some changes and added features you could not do with these songs, on their respective title. Plus, there are some GREAT bands on there too. Pantera, Rage Against the Machine, Ozzy, andDragonforce. It's a killer line up, but i have most if not all these songs already and can go and rock out to them, just can't drum or sing.

So what bothers me, is in reality, this title does not offer much of an upgrade, to spend another 60 bucks. The reason, because this, like with Metallica, does not support Downloaded music, minus the HG tunes. Seriously, WTF Activision/Neversoft?!?! Have you not been paying attention, what have the GH fans been calling for....cross game Downloadable content. If I can't take GH Smash hits and not be able to play other GH music, then what's the point. People like me, want to do what we did with our Rock Band 1 copy and what RB DLC does...we want to stick 1 COPY of a game in and be able to play ALL if not MOST of our music. If you didn't do the Disc copy deal like RB 1 did for people who bought RB 2, for 5 bucks, that is not as big of a deal as not being able to take all this music I PAID to Download, and be able to use it on ALL the new GH releases. I am sorry, but I do not want to have to get up and switch discs...and being that, if I have to do that already, then screw it, I will pass on Smash hits and pop in GH2 or GH3 to rock out to some of the past song.

GH needs to start making it so we can play our DLC on other discs, rather than just the World Tour disc....only Metallica works on multiple discs (GH3, GHWT and Metallica) and that is just NOT ENOUGH. Rock Band makes it so I only have to have 1 DISC in and I have HUNDREDS upon HUNDREDS of songs that I can play, WITHOUT swapping discs. As much as I prefer GH over RB, this issue is starting to wear on me, make your DLC cross game compatible, it is not that tricky!

So a while back posted a blog ranting about irresponsible spending by AIG, after receiving a government bailout. Never did I think that their burning of cash would ever sink to the level of low that we are seeing today. For a reference, here is a link to the past blog:

http://www.gamespot.com/users/klugenbeel/show_blog_entry.php?topic_id=m-100-25536025

So, unless you been hiding under a rock, or never check the news, you have probably heard about the bonuses that 4,600 AIG employees received recently. These bonuses totaled in 165 million dollars in pay outs. Some 70+ employees received bonuses upwards and above 1 million dollars, the highest pay about being over 6 million.

Now don't get me wrong, I believe people are entitled and should receive bonuses, but only in cases of success. AIG is a failing business and received the money it did because they were failing. In order to save jobs and help stop our stumbling economy, they were given money. Unfortunately, they have wasted it on themselves and on wasteful advertising campaigns. As i said before, Bad Publicity can be good publicity, but in the case of these bonuses now....they really do just have bad publicity. Receiving bail out money before was the "good, bad publicity", but now they have the people calling for their heads in the streets...and duh, that's just plain old bad publicity.

Another thing that makes these bonuses given out, a laugh is how AIG tried to explain and justify them. These bonuses were apparently "retention pay outs". In other words they paid these people these bonuses to keep up with the competition and make sure these people did not leave the company. What is funny is 11 of these people that received the "retention bonus" took the check, and then left the company. So I am sorry, how the hell is this a "retention bonus" and if so, shouldn't you be taking back that bonus from those 11 people? Come on AIG< stop making excuses and just ADMIT you guys are dumb, greedy, SOBs!

So my only solution to AIG is, the government needs to step in and just regulate the crap out of AIG. I know some people that may read this will say crap like, "Government involvement is bad and we need to keep Government out of business." I say to those "nay sayers" that you need to sit down and shut up. You had your way for years and we see how not regulating these industries went, right down the toilet. So when we don't regulate these failing businesses, they do what they want and have helped cause this economic turmoil we are in, so shut up. Lets step in and see if government can't change what is going on, I fail to see the nay sayers coming up with a better idea.

Personally, I think we should hang these AIG execs. To their defense, we don't live in Japan.

So I will first say, I think I have a new opinion since last talking about these two games. First let's talk about Guitar Hero World Tour, which I last time praised and said was better than Rock Band 2. Game play, disc soundtrack, and features....still has me hooked to Guitar hero World Tour, but I find I play Rock Band 2 more with friends and my girlfriend more than Guitar hero World Tour, and it is strictly because of the DLC. Yes DLC is a huge part of these games, and when I can play upwards of 300 songs all from the Rock Band 2 disc (DLC, RB1 License xfer) compared to my Guitar hero World Tour collection of about 100 or so songs, the 200 more songs makes it harder to play Guitar Hero because I want more options! That being said, this leads to the next part of the rant.

Since about halfway through December, Harmonix and Neversoft have been launching DLC, but well....crap. Worst part is both of them have done this. Let's look at the first example, the Country Track Packs. Both RB and GHWT have launched a country music pack (Going Country 01 - RB; Country Rock Track Pack - GHWT). Now when both games have titles in the names of Rock Band and Guitar Hero World Tour, Country music just doesn't fit in either of their names. First of all, Country does ROCK and second of all who in country music you would call a Guitar Hero? I am sorry, but whoever you think is the best country music guitar player, will NEVER EVER amount to such Rock Band guitar players like Dave Mustaine, Kirk Hammet, Yngwie Malmsteen, Eric Clapton, Keith Richards, Angus Young, ect. I feel Country music on these games is a tragic event and the crap needs to stop, but probably will not since Rock Band did make there's called Going Country 01, which leads me to believe there will be more and in past news articles Harmonix said there would be more....DAMNIT!!!!

Now not only is country been a problem, but the lack of good tunes as well since Mid-December. First I want to address the Oasis album by GHWT, you just put an Oasis pack out a few months ago...GIVE US SOME VARIETY. This is Guitar Hero, not Oasis Hero! Travis Barker pack...LAME....Bruce Springstien does at least fit the bill better than a lot of the European and Foreign crap GH has put out, but Springstien doesn't rock as hard as some of the other guys during his generation. Reggae also does not make sense in GHWT.

Now lets not leave Rock Band out, because since mid-December, they have been the worst on putting out good music. Again, RB felt the need to give us even more Foo Fighters, so it leads me to make a similar comment like I did to GHWT, this is Rock Band, not Foo Fighters band, so stop putting out more of the same bands and get some variety into the game. I wonder what made Harmonix release the Roy Orbison 01 pack, but in the name it seems like they will be releasing more and I am sorry, but Roy Orbison does not ROCK!

So what this comes down to is what has happened Neversoft and Harmonix? Why such the lame packs lately? I would not be surprised to see this DLC items not be a hot item, but I could be wrong because there still are fans out there who will support their artist, but is there enough of these types of fans to justify it over things like Iron Maiden packs (which we haven't seen a lot of this classic British Metal band in these games) or even going with not hard rockers like Billy Idol? There is room for many many great rockers, but why not use Rock and not swing towards things like Country and Reggae, it just doesn't make sense. Here is hoping to a better February set list! Cheers!

Some of you may remember the VP candidate Sarah Palin, Governor of Alaska. She was blasted in months leading to the election, and still is being blasted. She was interviewed recently and was complaining that people were unfair and critical about her, yet no one seems critical of Caroline Kennedy (D-NY) who is in line to take over for Sen. Hillary Clinton as she leaves to be Secretary of State in the Obama Administration.

Palin is quoted on saying such things, "I've been interested to see how Caroline Kennedy will be handled and if she will be handled with kid gloves or if she will be under such a microscope."

"It's going to be interesting to see how that plays out and I think that as we watch that we will perhaps be able to prove that there is a class issue here also that was such a factor in the scrutiny of my candidacy versus, say, the scrutiny of what her candidacy may be."

"Is it political? Is it sexism?" she asked. "What is it that drives someone to believe the worst and perpetuate the worst in terms of gossip and lies?"

She observed that Katie Couric and Tina Fey have been "capitalizing on" and "exploiting" her.

"I did see that Tina Fey was named entertainer of the year and Katie Couric's ratings have risen," she said. "And I know that a lot of people are capitalizing on, oh I don't know, perhaps some exploiting that was done via me, my family, my administration. That's a little bit perplexing, but it also says a great deal about our society."

Ok, so who the heck does this woman think she is? Before this moron even came into the picture, her GOP friends at Fox News blasted Hillary Clinton any chance they could. When Hillary came on TV saying she has been treated unfairly, the same morons at Fox made comments about Clinton crying and having the attitude that, "Oh the big boys are picking on me" and made comments on if Clinton would do the same if foreign Nations did the same, would she call it "picking on her" because she's a girl. All Palin is doing now and even when the election was still up for grabs was the same thing. Complain that the Liberal media was picking on her.

Now Palin is trying to say people are "capitalizing" on picking on her? Ok this is why people pick on you.

"I can see Russia from my house." - Palin when asked about Foreign countries and policy with them

You have a daughter under 18 who is knocked up. Family Values? Maybe if you spent more time paying attention to your kids or teaching them about "safe sex" your daughter wouldn't be on the campaign trail with you, ready to "pop" that illegitimate child out.

You are one of those women out there, that feminist who spent years trying to push for equality, that would send women back into the kitchen to be nothing more than subordinate house wives.

What can we say, you are a Redneck...and the educated people in the country do not respect Hicks. Is it a social thing, no, you are freakin' rich...so social status has nothing to do with it, but you are still a HICK and a rich Hick at that. Just cause you are rich, doesn't make you be less white trash, you are white trash and people don't want that crap in the white house...i think even some of your fellow GOP thought we couldn't put another hick in office (George W. Bush).

So Palin, stop complaining...you and your friends did the same crap to Hillary Clinton, which make you HYPOCRITS! Shut up, and go take a canoe to Russia and leave America alone!