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A Shot in the Dark

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Every Tuesday morning I check the iTunes storefront to see what new music released. This year I have been relatively unimpressed by the offerings in place and had only bought one album since the year turned over. Imagine my surprise when I woke up to check the store and I found not only one album that I wanted but two.

If you followed my blog on the old Club IGN then you know that I have a soft spot for female vocalists that sing “symphonic metal”, ala Lacuna Coil and Evanescence. One band a friend of mine turned me on to a few years ago was the Dutch group, Within Temptation. I went with him to see them live in downtown Philly and quickly fell in love with lead singer Sharon den Adel’s voice and have since collected all their releases (US and European). Being as they are not a big band here in the US, getting news on them is always kind of sketchy in regards to US releases of their material. So this morning was quite a surprise when I saw that their new album, a concept album based on a short series of comic books, was available. I quickly bought it and I am very much enjoying it. If you fashion yourself a fan of Evanescence or other female fronted symphonic metal bands then you owe it to yourself to give “The Unforgiving” a shot.

Another thing longtime followers know about me is that I have a deep seeded love for 80s rock, specifically hair metal. While bands like Guns N’ Roses, Bon Jovi, and Def Leppard were my main go to bands, groups like Europe and Whitesnake were also mainstays. Unlike most of those groups though (excluding Axl’s version of GNR from discussion) , Whitesnake is still releasing music with some edge to it and their new album, “Forevermore” is straight out of 1984. Most people remember Whitesnake for their famous single (and video) “Here I Go Again” but the band was pretty successful even before them with their hard rock take on blues riffs. “Forevermore” has a classic rock feel to it and I’m really enjoying the vibe I am getting from it at this point. David Coverdale still has it and I am glad that he keeps bringing Whitesnake back and fans 80s hard rock should get on board with the new album.

Anyway enough rambling about bands you don’t care about, I have to go watch Animal Kingdom for the next episode of Movie Dudes.

-Chris

Question of the Week

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So far in 2011 we have seen the release of no less than four major releases in the first person shooter genre. The release of Homefront last week left some people shaking their heads, including me, in regards to the shoddy presentation and overall sub-par to mediocre quality of the game. It also brought with it this question, with so many great titles coming out throughout the year can shooters afford to be mediocre?

Let me know what you think in the comments section and listen in to the next episode of The Perfectly Sane Show, released this Friday, to see if your response is read and more importantly if you have won a Halo: Reach Defiant Map Pack. We will be giving away one code via random drawing based on responses to the question and listener mail submissions. So have at it, let us know your thoughts.

Questions, Questions, Questions

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Questions serve a variety of purposes. They inform inquisitive minds with the knowledge they seek. They quiz people on the knowledge they store. They also offer a gateway into the opinions of others. And in the case of questions to The Perfectly Sane Show, they offer a chance for our listeners to interact with us on the show.

Recently the mail bin for the show has been a bit bare. I want to reverse that for the next episode, which records tomorrow night (publishing on Friday). How am I going to do that? Well obviously I am going to give some crap away. And by crap I mean something that hopefully you guys would love to get your greasy paws on. But before I can do that, I need to ask you a few questions?

Do you have an XBOX 360? Do you play Call of Duty: Black Ops? Would you like a code for the new First Strike Map Pack for CoD:BlOps?

If you answered yes to any of those questions than leave us a question in the comments below and we’ll enter you in a drawing to win the code, which will be given out sometime during the recording of this week’s show. Of course to find out if you have won the code you will have to listen because if you don’t and subsequently don’t claim the prize, I think I know a little emperor that would love to get his hands on it…

-Chris

Reach Out and Touch Us

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Everyone likes a chance to win a free game right? Well this week the Perfectly Sane Show will be discussing an awful lot about some small indie developed shooter game where you play as a super soldier named Halo: Reach. Seriously though we will be spending an awful lot of time discussing Reach and the Halo franchise in general when we record. We would love to here your experiences with Reach thus far and maybe your memories of the series proper. Doing so in the comments below will enter you into a drawing to win a copy of Deadly Premonition for the XBOX 360 (USA/Canada only… sorry :( ). So reach out and touch us with your tale of pwning n00bs in teh Haloz!

Pitch Us Your Game…

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…and in the process maybe win yourself a free game.

The topic for this week’s Perfectly Sane show is Awesome Game Ideas We Thought of and Want Made. The crew is going to have a handful of their own personal choices but at the same time we want to hear some ideas for games that you thought of and would like to see made. So here’s the deal, you think up a game, pitch it to us in the comments below (or email us at perfectlysane@vagary.tv) including the title of your game and a short synopsis of the premise (maybe 100 words or so) and we will in turn read them during the recording and pick which one we like the best. The one we pick as the best will win a brand new copy of Deadly Premonition for the XBOX 360 and the potential for your awesome idea to be stolen by somebody who actually might make a game. Entries need to be in by 10PM EST tomorrow night ( September 2nd).

Anticipation

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This year has been a bit of an oddity, what with high quality games being delivered throughout the year. The last few weeks have actually seen me not purchase much of anything new (aside from the downloadable Lara Croft game) but the slight drought is about to end. For some the Holiday gaming season officially will kick off next week with the release of Metroid: Other M but for a large sum of us the real kick off will be when Microsoft sets loose its 5-ton gorilla, Halo: Reach. Regardless of where you stand on the Halo anticipation scale, it is hard to deny that from September 14th to mid November some of the biggest games of the year will be releasing.

The Perfectly Sane crew is set to talk about what we are looking forward to (and why) but I want to know what you guys are looking forward to. So leave some comments down below and let me know what you are looking forward to and why and I will read some of them on during the recording tomorrow.

-Chris