Friday, October 30, 2015

The Legend of Zelda representing video game music on a talk show

Video Game concert tours have been happening outside of Japan since the mid 2000s Thanks to people in the Industry like Tommy Tallarico and Nobuo Uematsu. Today there are big three  video game related concert series that I know of.


Earlier this month The Legend of Zelda music was performed on the CBS Late Show hosted by Stephen Colbert. It's standard length as far as far as late night talk show musical guests go, so it must have been difficult for the arranger of the piece to condense 25 years of musical history with into just 4 minutes. Watch the video after the break.




Wednesday, October 21, 2015

The Back To The Future adventure game is on sale and Rocket League car DLC

Today is October 21, 2015. Big deal to Back To The Future movie fans.   Steam is having a  75% off sale on Back To the Future:The Game. An adventure game developed by Telltale Games.

Picks up after the end of the movie Trilogy and some of the original actors from the movies do voice work for the game. A.J. LoCascio does an great voice impersonation of Michel J. Fox/ Marty McFly





Rocket League is a competitive sports game where you play International Football aka Soccer by driving cars around a giant field. The Iconic Delorean is now a DLC car in the game! Complete with Flame and light streaks. This might be enough to at least get me to play the game for a few matches.


For Marty McFly and Dr. Emmett Brown the future was today.

Tuesday, October 13, 2015

Well I underestimated the system requirements for Battlefront

Wow! The PC/Windows system requirements are slightly above what I was expecting. Talking about the RAM (computer's system memory) and the Graphics Card power.

CPU: Intel Core i3 6300T
-That's a processor that was released this year! Dual core at 3.3 Ghz with hyper threading. Basically telling you to invest in a full 4-core system if  you haven't already.

8GB of System RAM minimum (16 recommended). I only have 4 installed in this system now so I would be looking at an $80.00 dollar investment for 8 GB from the same brand and series I prefer. 

40 GB of Hard drive space is sort of the expected thing for "AAA" games these days so that's nothing all that noteworthy. 

Nvidia GTX 660 with 2 GB of VRAM. So I looked up the reference specs on Nvidia's website and that would be 960 Cuda cores at a clock speed of 980 MHz.  GDDR5 VRAM. This would be another $200.00 upgrade for me to get a GTX 960.