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Rock Band is live in the App Store

Rock Band on the iPhone.If there’s one thing to love about Rock Band for the iPhone and iPod Touch it’s that playing the vocal part doesn’t actually involve singing. Can you imagine all the little teenies walking around acting like you’re doing something wrong by staring as they sing to themselves. Seriously, the iPhone version of the smash franchise is the inbred cousin to the real deal, bastardizing the best parts of the other games and charges too much for too little.

For starters, the game is $10. If by some freak accident you’ve not completely worn yourself out on Rock Band or finally picked up a real instrument, you just might be willing to pay that much. If you’re at all sane, though, that’s just ridiculous. You’ve heard of Tap Tap Revenge right? You know it’s $.99? Granted, you only get to play three “strings” as opposed to the four in Rock Band, but c’mon guys, it’s on your phone. It’s as far from actually playing an instrument as it gets.

If you really want this game, wait on it. I can’t imagine there will be a ton of people ready to drop $10 on such a weak game.

Everyone (actually Europe) gets a black Wii but us

Black Wii.Nintendo’s really got it easy this holiday season. Or it could, anyway. The Wii has made boatloads of money and the only thing people really want from the console is a little color. Well, that and HD, but really the HD is unnecessary for the games that are fun on the Wii. So, ridiculous requests aside, all the world wants is colors for the Wii, and it seems everyone but America is going to get that wish.

Yes, next month the whole of Europe will have a chance to nab a limited edition black Wii bundle, complete with Wii Sports Resort and MotionPlus dongle. Nintendo will also be releasing a bunch of accessories. The package is available to Ireland and the UK on November 6th and the rest of Europe November 20th.

So why not us, Nintendo? Why not release the console that would outsell all those 250GB bundles this holiday season? Why not give us the Wii’s evil twin? Why?

Microsoft cuts third-party memory

Datel Max Memory for the 360.If you’ve been enjoying the benefits of a third-party memory card on your 360, your happy days are numbered. Major Nelson confirmed that the next system update will kill support for those little 4GB flash units that have been saving you benjamins and giving you a way to back up your old saves and profiles.

Obviously storage control is one of the best ways for Microsoft to make money for the Xbox division. A 512MB memory card is still $29.99 and the best bargain for the hard drive is the refurbed 120GB from Gamestop for $99.99. As Microsoft continues down the path of DLC, including games, movies, and TV shows, it better come up with bigger storage options. The largest available is that 250GB hard drive in the Modern Warfare 2 bundle, and it won’t be sold separately, for now at least. When it does become available, I’d expect price to be somewhere in the $175, which is just way too much.

Modern Warfare 2 bundle release date surfaces

Modern Warfare 2 limited edition bundle.Just a week after the 250GB PS3 Slim was announced, that Modern Warfare 2 bundle, the one with a similarly sized hard drive, got a release date. Yesterday both Amazon and Costco posted November 10th for the release date on the bundle.

For $399.99 you’ll get a console with a 250GB hard drive, two wireless controllers in black, and, of course, the game. In keeping with recent SKU changes, the console only comes with standard def. cables, a big letdown for what is otherwise a premium setup. If you’re looking to get your hands on one, please please please don’t overpay for your HDMI cable. You can find them online for less than most value meals.

Half-Life on sale at Steam for 55.8% off

Gordon Freeman looking badass.There are a couple reasons to break down, buy some Half-Life, and lock yourself in your room and play the series through this weekend. The first is that Gordon Freeman was named “All-Time Greatest Video Game Hero” by the gaming community at Gamestop this week with 55.8% of the vote (which is more than it takes to be president! (decade-old jokes are so good!)). The other reason is that all the Half-Life games are on sale for 55.8% off on Steam in honor of the…honor.

So if you’re a little bored, or if you’ve never played Counter-Strike for some ridiculous reason, get yourself some Half-Life for a decent deal. It’s probably better than the ways you were planning to spend this weekend, anyway.

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