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If you have kept an eye on the entertainment blogs this week, then surely you have heard that the late night talk show host beloved by nerds and dorks everywhere, Conan O' Brien, has found a new home at TBS. What is more interesting, however, is the news now coming out about where he might have ended up, which includes a gaming console in many of your living rooms.
A report from entertainment blog deadline.com earlier today reports that “Team Conan”, which included Coco's executive producer, manager and attorney, were thinking “way outside the network box.” This included discussions with Microsoft on a possible XBOX deal for Conan O' Brien's show that would have “broken new ground.”
Those small tidbits are all that we were offered, but it certainly gives the game console fans something for their minds to wander about. What could this deal have possibly entailed? Could it have been a nightly show distributed through Xbox's Live's marketplace? After all, we know that the XBOX is already set up to distribute nightly programming such as Comedy Central's popular late night shows like “The Daily Show” and “The Colbert Report”.
It is possible though, that this idea could have been taken a step further. After all, we already know that the XBOX is set up to handle streaming video through features such as “Inside Xbox” and the Netflix application. What if CoCo's show had played out live every night on Xbox for an audience watching from their couches?
If you wanted to really go outside the box, look at the type of live setup that Xbox has for a show like 1 vs 100. Could an outside the box idea have involved interactive elements from an audience with Xbox 360 controllers in hand? Imagine it: Press A to bring out the Walker Texas Ranger Lever! Okay, perhaps a little too hokey, but certainly a live audience could be polled about interest in a guests upcoming movie, or possibly submit questions to be asked to the guest.
We may never know all the details of the Xbox and Conan deal, but one thing is for sure-- this probably isn't the last you will hear of Microsoft trying to get into regular programming on it's console, as our gaming consoles slowly evolve into the all-in-one entertainment console. More live content? More interactive programming? Perhaps when Conan was dreaming “In the year 2000....”, some of these predictions weren't too far off.
Sickness, absence, earthquakes & weather, oh my! It seems like mother nature does not want there to be a new OLR tonight, but we press on anyway with a quick show to talk about the weeks updates since Robs return from PAX east. In gaming crime news, we talk about something stolen on the show floor at PAX... and why on earth would someone want to hack a gamercard? The Playstation 3 is deleting a not widely used feature but are our listeners still mad about it? Game Room might be a bit slow to reach that 1,000 mark, but Final Fantasy 9 appears to be coming to PSN sooner rather than later. The show gets completley derailed when a chatroom question leads to a very unlikely special guest. All this and MORE including our regular segments such as the Mailbag, the FUs of the week, Release Dates, How was your gaming week? and of course... YOU! E-mails, phone calls and more on the show where every gamer has a voice-- Orange Lounge Radio.
As you've probably seen on my twitter, I was lucky enough to attend the San Diego Comic-Con spinoff show they held in San Francisco yesterday! While I'm sure most of the podcast fans don't give a damn about comics (Maybe some of you do, I can't say for sure ^^; ) there were some videogame related things to see.
For example Capcom had a booth there with a few of their upcoming releases for 2010! hit the jump for my full report!! (and yeah there'll be some comic-specific stuff in there too... but we had to do *something* to fill time till the end of it.)
Due to copyright I can't make this song available for download directly.
Since act-deft's pick was a little late, I had to push mine back a little too... but anyway:
Ah B4U... while not too challenging as a DDR song, up until a couple weeks ago it was always one of those IIDX songs I never imagined myself passing, but lo and behold I actually did it! (nevermind I had a little help from the EASY modifier, but a pass is a pass imo :P)
This song is definetly up there in terms of 'Best BEMANI song ever' it's just so memorable. a driving techno beat with the iconic lyrics, there's just no denying its greatness.
There have also been several remixes of B4U including:
- B4U Glorious Style - One of the only 'long versions' ever done in DDR, this one appeared in 5th MIX. - B4U -B4ZA BEAT MIX- - a special ONI-only remix done for DDRMAX2: Dance Dance Revolution 7th MIX. - B4U (BEMANI FOR YOU MIX) remixed by DJ YOSHITAKA and Michael Ala Mode, which appeared in beatmania IIDX 16: EMPRESS - as well as a remix by the group 'kutimu' which you can hear in Orange Lounge Revolution 2nd MIX, available now! (plugplug)
