Lionhead has sent me five free Fable II Pub Games codes, and all you have to do to snag one is be one of the first five people to email me me at fahey@kotaku.com with the answer to one, simple question: What is the one song (in my humble opinion) that could secure a win in the war between Guitar Hero and Rock Band? No posting the answer in the comments section until I update the post!

UPDATE: And all codes are gone! And my email inbox is flooded! The answer was, of course, Stan Bush's "The Touch" from the original Transformers animated movie. Grats to the five winners!

Seems the Xbox Live programming director left himself signed in and his wife got a hold of the game under his tag. He popped in the door to find her in full gambling-problem mode, which is to say distant, uncommunicative, unconcerned and four figures to the bad, on his account.

He writes a humorous anecdote but it reeks of poetic license. All three games are conveniently mentioned, and the dialogue has a sort of canned soft-drink testimonial feel. And, here's the escape hatch, you can transfer your gold to your character when you get the game, but nothing says you have to transfer your debts. In fact, you'd be quite foolish to do so. Or you can just delete the gamesave and start over without paying the debt. So if you're playing this, keep all of that in mind.

Still, I like the idea of Major Nelson, stubble-faced and bleary-eyed and facing a heap of flaming cards in Fortune's Tower and eventually ranting like Albert Brooks in Lost in America. "Say it! Say it! Say 'I lost the nest egg.' Go on, say it!"

I am Playing the Fable II Pub Games ... but I Have a Little Problem [Xbox Live's Major Nelson]