Get your Portable ID!

If you happened to see the new announcement on the Rock Band forums today, then you would know that Harmonix/MTV games is releasing 5 more songs as DLC this christmas. All this downloadable content makes me happy. Rock band is really sticking to their word about releasing a lot of content. They is something for everyone this christmas now.
Hey all,

"Hope you are having some good time off or will be soon. Below is the press release for tomorrow's DLC. As mentioned before the DLC will come out on Xbox marketplace on Tuesday and on Playstation store next week (along with next week's regularly scheduled DLC) due to Sony's offices being closed this week for the holidays. At any rate enjoy the DLC and I'll be back later this week!

Happy holidays,
Sean
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Harmonix and MTV Games want you to ring in the holiday cheer with a special Rock Band gift. For a limited time, fans and gamers can purchase tracks from platinum-plus-selling rock act 30 Seconds To Mars, pop-punkers All-American Rejects and Swedish new-wavers The Sounds at a special holiday price of $0.99 per song (80 Microsoft Points per track for Xbox 360).

Starting tomorrow, there will be a total of five new songs available.
They are:
"Attack" - 30 Seconds To Mars (from 2005's A Beautiful Lie)
"The Kill" - 30 Seconds To Mars (from 2005's A Beautiful Lie)
"Dirty Little Secret" - All-American Rejects (from 2005's Move Along)
"Move Along" - All-American Rejects (from 2005's Move Along)
"Song With A Mission" - The Sounds (from 2006's Dying To Say This To You) "

So today I finally got my replacement guitar from EA after requesting for an RMA on Nov. 21st. I could live with the delay, as the drums are consuming my time well as I wait (damn they are fun). Also I will be getting a free game from EA because of my delay troubles :D.
Anyways onto the guitar. It is definantly a little different.

1. The fret buttons are way more clacky sounding. These frets are loud. This makes the fact that, compared to a GH guitar controller, making the silent strum bar on the Strat completely pointless. My only disappointment with the new guitar

2. The strum bar (which was the problem with my launch guitar) is actually a little improved. It seems that the strum bar has a little more resistance to it. All in all it feels less breakable.

3. The Rock Band guitar dongle is different also. The first one I had used a sticker to label it as a Rock Band dongle. This the writing is also part of the plastic. Not too important, just wanted to let you know.

My new guitar works like a charm, and I don't have any problems.
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Now about PS3 guitar compatibility. Harmonix announced in their Rock Band community forums this following post.

"Hey everybody,

Good news, see below (this patch should be available quite soon, maybe even up now as of this posting)-


Available today is a routine update for the PLAYSTATION 3 version of Rock Band that addresses a number of items related to guitar controller compatibility. Should Rock Band owners choose to obtain the update, they will need broadband internet access connected to their PLAYSTATION 3. The update will be downloaded once the game is started.


Enjoy,
Sean"

Source

This is good news as it seems we can finally use GH guitars on the game. I haven't heard of the patch being released yet, but this is confirmation that it is coming. PS3 owners of rock band can now finally create and enjoy a quartet band.

IGN has an article that has reveiled the entire setlist for Rock Band.
I'm amazed by this list. IMO it is better than GH3's. Not to mention the full-album downloads and constant downloadable content.

ALL CREDIT GOES TO IGN FOR THIS LIST.

1960s

• Rolling Stones "Gimme Shelter"

1970s

• Aerosmith "Train Kept a Rollin'"*
• The Who "Won't Get Fooled Again"
• Boston "Foreplay/Long Time"
• Mountain "Mississippi Queen" (cover)
• The Police "Next to You"
• David Bowie "Suffragette City"
• Black Sabbath "Paranoid" (cover)
• Blue Oyster Cult "Don't Fear the Reaper"
• The Ramones "Blitzkrieg Bop"
• Deep Purple "Highway Star"
• KISS "Detroit Rock City"
• Molly Hatchet "Flirtin' With Disaster"
• The Outlaws "Green Grass & High Tides" (cover)
• Sweet "Ballroom Blitz" (cover)

1980s

• Rush "Tom Sawyer"*
• Bon Jovi "Wanted Dead or Alive"
• The Clash "Should I Stay or Should I Go"
• Faith No More "Epic"
• R.E.M. "Orange Crush"
• Iron Maiden "Run to the Hills" (cover)

1990s

• Foo Fighters "Learn to Fly"
• Metallica "Enter Sandman"
• Nirvana "In Bloom"
• Stone Temple Pilots "Vasoline"
• Weezer "Say It Ain't So"
• Smashing Pumpkins "Cherub Rock"
• Radiohead "Creep"
• Beastie Boys "Sabotage"
• Hole "Celebrity Skin"
• Garbage "I Think I'm Paranoid"
• Soundgarden "Black Hole Sun"

2000s

• The Hives "Main Offender"
• Queens of the Stone Age "Go With the Flow"
• The Strokes "Reptilia"
• Jet "Are You Gonna Be My Girl"
• OK Go "Here It Goes Again"
• Nine Inch Nails "The Hand That Feeds"
• Pixies "Wave of Mutilation"
• Yeah Yeah Yeahs "Maps"
• Red Hot Chili Peppers "Dani California"
• Coheed & Cambria "Welcome Home"
• Fallout Boy "Dead on Arrival"
• The Killers "When You Were Young"
• New Pornographers "Electric Version"

Unlockable Tracks

• Bang Camaro "Pleasure (Pleasure)"
• Twelve more yet to be revealed

Well yesterday, being saturday, i really took some time playing the orange box. I finished half-life 2 episode two on wednesday first.

Then i set my eyes on portal. WOW do i love that game. Its just so fun to get my brain working like that. I've been waiting for a game that was really different. The challenge is just what i needed. To top it all off...its hilarious! I don't think i've ever laughed out loud (lol'd :P) that much in a game.

I played Portal quite a bit this week...and finished it 100% yesterday. YES 100%...all of those achievements. I played it a lot, yes, and got really good at the game. I beat all the advanced maps, and all of the map chamber challenges for gold. Even the least steps and least time ones...least portal ones were way easy...er, except for a couple. If you get stuck on trying to get gold...just think outside the [orange] box.
I know some of you right now would not believe me :D ...so i took screenshots.

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There are a few more screenshots in my image gallery here on gamespot.

So a couple weeks ago i made some upgrades to my computer.

-I ordered a vantec tornado 92mm fan...just so see what its like first hand :P. Very loud...but im getting a controller soon to quiet it down. WOW does it push a lot of air

-New side panel for my thermaltake armor...the one with the 25cm fan. It cooled my system down a few degrees. i plan on making some leds for it...since there are already holes for them.

-another icage with 120mm fan. I wanted to cool my case down even more. My cpu is now 24 degrees C at idle. :D

-I thought i might try some readyboost. So i ordered the 4gb Corsair Flash Voyager GT. That thing is fast. Good thing i got it as u read the other news below.

Now for the more important stuff.

-I got the Creative Soundblaster X-Fi Platinum Fatality Champion sound card. It has the I/O panel so i can use optical output. Sounds great. Alchemy was a &#@%$ to get to work...lemme know if u have problems...i can help. WORST OF ALL a $50MIR came out this week....UGH! :evil:

-There was a reason for getting such an expensive sound card. I also got myself the Logitech Z-5500 Digital 5.1 Surround Sound Speakers! and WOW i love these. They sound amazing!..very loud! Also I love the control panel.

Thats it for upgrades...but i got more news...good and bad.

First with the good. I overclocked my cpu and gpu a bit more just to break 11,000 on 3DMark06. And Hurray! I did it. I managed to get 11,110 with my cpu at 3204mhz and my gfx card at 648/1512/2016.:D With Rivatuner 2.05 i was finally able to overclock again.

Now the bad. I had a long bout with BSOD's. It took a couple days before i narrowed it down to one of my RAM modules. Im in the process of RMAing them. :? My new 4gig flash voyager gt is keeping my performance up to par a bit...as i am only running 1 gig or Ram right now. Thank God i order that puppy.

Also moved my computer setup to the office in our house...it was in our recreational building before. With this new location and upgrades i'll definantly post some pics in the next couple weeks.

Today is Sept 7th and it's 1:20 in the morning. i'm kinda bored so i thought...why not let everyone know it my birthday? well here it is, i'd just like to say im 19. Everyone just left for college...so ive got no one except my girlfriend to party it up with, but i have to drive an hour to get her at college. I don't even know what i want...maybe a new phone...the iphone is only 400 now. Who knows...i let you know what my parents and gf (i heard its a good gift) get me. Its gonna be pretty fun. well im tired...so i guess i say goodnight and lets rest up for the rest of the day

A few months ago I built a new rig. It performs really well.

System Specs: Thermaltake Armor Case, Asus P5B-Deluxe mobo, 2gb Corsair xms2 ram, Intel e6600@ 3ghz, Tuniq Tower 120, eVGA 320mb 8800 gts@ 621/1998, Enermax Liberty 620wt psu, Seagate 500gb and 320gb hdd's, Razer Tarantula and Copperhead, Dell 2407wfp-HC monitor :shock:

I overclocked both my cpu and video card to the settings above. As a result my 3DMark06 Score went from 8262 to 10225.