Apparently some WoWer sold his account with a high-level super-mage-berserker-monkeyboy for $9,500. I wonder how much he’ll have to pay to buy a life.

In case you’re looking for a gun that lets you play those shooting games without the welts from plastic BBs, you might be interested in the 50-foot Marshmallow Blaster. The gun uses pneumatic pressure to shoot a marshmallow up to fifty feet. It features a bolt-action for loading and it can shoot either one large marshmallow or a handful of smaller ones for shotgun-like action.

Costs $39.95 from Hammacher Schlemmer.

In what has become a “coming of age” for new devices, Doom now runs on the iPhone. You can’t exactly play it quite yet because the controller doesn’t work, but it’s a step in the right direction and an important milestone in iPhone development.

via Engadget

Alright, I admit it.  I like playing Guitar Hero as much as the next guy and his big sister do.  But really, what’s the intrigue about being a fictional guitar virtuoso rock star?  I mean pushing buttons on a twenty some inch piece of plastic just doesn’t exactly have quite the same appeal of strumming and bending medium gauge nickel strings tied to a solid wood body classic Stratocaster.

So if you’re ready to turn off the flat screen and plug into some real tube power, now’s the perfect time to go all the way.  Get a real guitar and a real amp.  Chances are, before long you’ll be big-time famous.  After all, the emo bands did it, so can you.  Here’s how…

Grab Your Axe.

It’s essential to have real functional gear if you want to be a real functional guitar hero.  You don’t have to start with the very best, but don’t waste your time or money on bargain basement junk.  Try a Fender Standard Stratocaster electric guitar to start.  You can buy one brand new for about $400 and you’ll be able to grow with it and be proud of the axe forever.

Gotta be the big star showoff?  If money’s no object, pick up a vintage beauty such a 1950’s classic Gibson Les Paul.  Starting price?  Around $10,000.  Your spouse won’t understand, but your buddies will get it.

Crank It To 11.

Ever seen the rock fantasy, Spinal Tap?  If so, you know exactly what I mean when I say “Crank it up to 11!”

But seriously, you’ve got your dream guitar, now you’ll just need an amplifier to make it rock.  My suggestion?  Start with a Fender G-DEC 30 Guitar Digital Entertainment Center.  A purist’s worst nightmare, this beauty has all the digital goodies built right in and ready to go.  When you’re starting off, you’ll probably want all the effects you can muster in order to sound presentable whatsoever.

Want to show off some more?  Pick up a replica Marshall 1959SLPX Head and Full stack package.  100 watts of Class A all tube power muscle and warmth plus eight 12” Celestion Vintage speakers that will make your ears burn when you crank it to 11.  Your cost?  Only about $4,000.

Learn To Fly.

Now that you’ve got a spare bedroom studio full of goodies, you just need to learn how to use the darn things.  Good News – Starting to strum has never been easier than it is nowadays.  Just roll over to YouTube and type in “guitar lessons.”  If you can watch and copy, you’ll be jamming your favorite riffs in no time at all.  And for goodness sakes, it’s not really any harder than Guitar Hero.  You can do it.  Just keep trying till your fingertips can literally take no more.

Seriously speed up the process by taking lessons from an expert 14 year old guitar geek at your local guitar center.  Once you can hack out a few notes on your own, sign up for a week long guitar fantasy camp with your rock star heroes in person.  There’s nothing like learning from the guy that wrote the song.  Roadworthy tip – when your fingers start to bleed, heal them with super glue.

Don’t put off your dreams of stardom any longer.  Get your gear and start wailing right now.  Be a real guitar hero!

The fine folks over at Ars Technica are reporting that the most hotly-anticipated XBOX 360 launch of the fall may ship without one of it’s most hyped features.

From an interview in EGM with Frank O’Connor from Bungie, it appears the online-cooperative game mode may be on the chopping block because Bungie is having some problems getting it to “work well”. There’s been no official announcement outside of the EGM article, but word from those inside Bungie is good enough for us to assume Halo 3 will be missing the feature.

No word yet on whether or not the feature may be added later as a downloadable patch.

No, not the Wii people, they’ll just have to wait a bit more for their Guitar Hero fix.

We’re talking mini guitar controllers for XBOX 360 and PS2, for those with smaller hands (like elves and dwarves and hobbits).

The sad thing about these mini controllers is they’re far and away better quality than the originals, sporting wood construction with a real metal whammy bar (because I hear those elves are strong, dude). The buttons even light up.

The controllers are $69.90 each, but XBOX owners will need to invest in an adapter for another $69.90.

via Gizmodo

“THE BOX was one of the best games at E3, a shooter where you battle the beasts of myth using real-world firepower.”

This game looks absolutely incredible….I can’t wait to get my hands on it. Does anyone want to send me an advanced copy?

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“Nintendo responded to the Sony price cut by confirming that they do not believe it will change anything.”

Considering the huge spike in sales the PS3 had last week…..I wouldn’t count them out. The hard core gamers will eventually get a PS3 once they tire of “Duck Hunt” and “Wii Table Tennis.”

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For all you Halo freaks out there, XBox has has done it again. The new XBox 360 comes with some pretty nice stuff including:

• Halo 3 Special Edition Wireless Controller
• Halo 3 Special Edition Hard Drive
• Halo 3 Special Edition Wired Headset
• Halo 3 Special Edition Gamer Pics and Theme
• Component HD AV Cable (and HDMI port)
• Ethernet Cable
• Play & Charge Kit
• Xbox LIVE Silver Membership

What seems to be missing, oh yeah…..THE GAME….This 20 gig green monster should come with the game it’s designed around…this means war!

via Wired

This is somewhat old news, but the Playstation 3’s dropped $100 off of it’s price, giving it the title of cheapest Blu-Ray player yet again.

I’m guessing Sony hopes the drop will speed up the PS3’s lagging sales when compared to its competitors. I’m also guessing that a hundred clams isn’t as big a deal to the average gamer as the fact that the PS3 has very little to offer in the games arena that’s not available on the other consoles. Add that to the fact that Nintendo can’t keep Wiis on the shelves and the Xbox360 has Halo 3’s overactive hype machine cranking away and I’ll wait for the next PS3 price drop before I even consider one.

Oh, and Sony also released a $599 80GB model that comes with Motorstorm. Does anyone even care? 20GB and a free copy of a game you can get on eBay for $20 isn’t really worth $100 bucks Sony.