Archive for May 15th, 2009


Transformers 2 Now Retroactively Ruining Things: New Version of “THE TOUCH”

Filed Under: across the net, cynicism, movies by Marty Day — 5 Comments
May 15, 2009

You’ve got the touch…

You’ve got the poooweeeeerrrrrrr

YEAH!

Start to sing that to any child of the 80s, and they’ll immediately chime in, as it’s the opening lines of the song “The Touch”, by Stan Bush.

Made famous in the original, animated Transformers movie, it’s arguably one of the seminal songs of the current nerd generation.

So of course, with Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen hitting theaters, they had to remake it, right?

Set your ears for dissapointment, as the 2009 version of “The Touch” is slow tempoed, and Linkin Park-esq, right down to a bootleg version of your standard “white, maybe asian?” rapper dude.

Holy shit does this suck. Click play in the YouTube video above to hate your life. Happy Friday!

EDIT – 4:05PM: Just found out something that either makes this more hysterical, or far sadder…this isn’t officially in Transformers 2, yet. Bush made the song and the video for quote, “hopeful consideration for Michael Bay’s ‘Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen.’” Oh man. Stan, what happened, man?

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New TONY HAWK Game Continues To Fill Your Room With Fake Plastic Things

Filed Under: gaming by Marty Day — Leave a comment
May 15, 2009

Well, this should come as no surprise.

Activision loves to sell games with “must-have” controllers.

And…Activision looooooves to run their money making franchises into the ground with sequel after sequel.

So it doesn’t shock me in the least to see that the 13th Tony Hawk title is played with the use of a fake, plastic skateboard.

Tony Hawk Ride, as it’s titled, is scheduled to be shown off at E3 later this month.  Due to hit the PS3, 360 and Wii, it’ll cost at least $100 to get your game on. Add probably another $60 for a second controller.

For those counting at home, this leaves only the Call of Duty and World of Warcraft games as the Activision franchises without fake controllers.  Personally, I’m hoping for a mini game where you can shred with your Guitar Hero controller while skating around wherever.  Teach kids that they can’t do two things at once.

Personally, I miss the days of Tony Hawk Pro Skater 2, which is probably one of my most played games in the PSOne era.  Good times, that game.

Original Post: Kotaku – New Tony Hawk Game Has A Freakin’ Skateboard Peripheral – Tony Hawk: Ride.

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