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Guitar Hero sued by The Romantics
Thursday, November 22nd, 2007
These wonderful haircuts and their owners are mobilizing legal action against Activision, Harmonix, and Red Octane over their song “What I like About You” in Guitar Hero Encore: Rocks the ’80s. Seemingly worried that cover band Wavegroup Sound’s version will somehow “confuse the consumer” and detract from their sales, they are demanding the whole hog – the band wants to halt the sale of the game and accounting of all profits from the game, along with unspecified “compensatory and punitive” damages. For once the cover band gets it right, and the real band has to come along and spoil it for the rest of us.
NES Cartridge Composer Releases Second Album
Friday, September 21st, 2007Alex Mauer, creator of the first ever Nintendo cart music album, has put together a second cart, “Color Caves”. If these luscious bleeped-out melodies and white-noise percussion grooves float your boat, you can order the cartridge from his website.

