Video Games

A Christian video game maker, who makes Christian-themed clones of Dance Dance Revolution, plans to introduce Guitar Praise, a Guitar Hero clone, for the PC platform.

Grab the guitar and play along with top Christian bands! Shred those riffs or blast the bass…you add a unique sound to the solid Christian rock. But watch out: if you can’t keep up, the artists will take a break and stop the music. Crank it up and try again - you’ll soon be rockin’ with the best while praising the Lord!

I find the following BoingBoing comment relevant:

Christianity has always been useful as a social barometer to tell me when something I liked was no longer cool. It happened to etheral gothic pop (Evanescence), it happened to Dance, Dance, Revolution, (Dance Praise!) and Guitar Hero is next on the godly chopping block.

Sony is now promoting two of their games right now by making their soundtracks free with the game purchase. If you buy Jak X: Combat Racing for the PS2 or The Con for the Playstation Portable, you download their respective soundtracks for free! All you have to do after you buy the game is hit up Sony’s Connection website, type in your coupon code from the game, and download away. “The Con’s soundtrack includes exclusive remixes by Blackalicious, Dan the Automator, The Alchemist and Doc. Jak X includes songs from Queens of the Stone Age and Billy Howerdel.”

Telltale Games has just released the soundtrack of Bone for free on their official website under the “Extras” tab. All songs are in MP3 format. Composed by Jared Emerson-Johnson, the release also features an online booklet describing history of the tracks. Bone is one of the first point-and-click adventure games to be marketed by the episode, four in-all. “For most people words about music are much less interesting than the music itself, so I encourage you to download some or all of the tracks and let them speak for themselves,” says Emerson-Johnson. “Hopefully they will bring you some of the same joys I had in writing them.” The best things in life are free, and this is clearly an example.