Oh well, good thing I reserved the regular version and not the CE.

Okay now give us Crackdown 2.

So Tiberium was originally supposed to be a RTS - FPS hybrid?

At the very least I just hope the same management hell doesn't ruin BioWare now that it's part of EA...

There are just too many good games out there (including ~20 coming in the next two months) to shed a tear for Tiberium. The cancellation has provided us with more entertainment than the actual game ever would have.

What the hell is with these weird and arbitrary rules?

This was supposed to come out a year ago and everyone who played it said it was terrible. A year later maybe that has changed, who knows, but I would definitely play the free trial version before spending $10 on it.

[kotaku.com]

Wrong. You can rent the game for a few dollars or borrow it from someone, and then you get like 55 songs for $5. That's 9 cents per song.

I hope they let each profile create more than just one avatar. I'd like a group of customized avatars to pick from, like with the characters in Rock Band 2.

Oh man that is hilarious.
As someone who actually pays money for games, I really don't care how badly pirates are treated.

2006:
Rowdy revelers in France torched 425 vehicles overnight in scattered New Year's Eve unrest that has become an annual problem in troubled neighborhoods, the national police chief said Sunday. Last year, 333 cars were burned.
In what has become an annual tradition every New Year's Eve, youths set several hundred cars ablaze in France as festivities get out of hand.

2008:
A total of 372 cars were set on fire in the French suburbs on Monday night and 259 people were arrested, but the police said the New Year's celebrations were calmer than last year's.

That's just the basic stuff, if they had wanted to *really* improve the game, what they should have done is implement a Geometry Wars 2 style in-game leaderboard that shows your score against those of your friends as you're playing a song in real time.
The battle of the bands mode is like a bad attempt at this, instead they should have copied the GW2 system exactly.

Hell, pretty much anything from "All Ages" or "80-85" would have been fine, but Sorrow, like most recent Bad Religion, is just mediocre.

You can really tell it was rushed because they didn't do the easy (and cheap) things that would have really improved the game. The Band Store and character customization staying basically the same are two examples. Two extremely disappointing examples.
Another example would be the band trivia before each song. This could have easily been expanded tenfold, instead it's mostly lame messages like "remember to use your overdrive." It's just a sentence or two of text, how hard could it be to provide a few more tidbits of information about each band?

Even though making the World Tour playable solo was a great idea, they should have kept the Solo World Tour for those who prefer to simply play through a list of songs.

Also, there may be more good songs in terms of quantity since there are 84 in total, but there are far more just plain lousy songs so it's much more uneven than the original Rock Band's setlist.

Maybe some of these issues can be improved with a patch, but I doubt it since in the past they have only patched the game when doing so will make them more money (the Music Store). I guess we'll just have to wait for Rock Band 3. Unless that is rushed as well.

That reminds me I want much more Ramones on Rock Band: Judy is a Punk, I Wanna Be Sedated, Psycho Therapy, Bonzo Goes to Bitburg, plus most of "Acid Eaters"...

There's no denying it, Kotaku just got embarrassed.

You guys may have to actually do a little work (you know, little things like "journalism" and "research" and "fact checking") from now on instead of just taking stories from internet forums.