Guitar Hero: World Tour will be one of the biggest games in the industry over the course of the next year or so. Check out the Guitar Hero World Tour song list, featuring such big names as Jimi Hendrix, The Doors, Van Halen, Metallica, Ozzy Osbourne, and Michael Jackson.
Author: Shane
America’s Got Talent 3 Top 10
The top 10 finalists for America’s Got Talent season 3 are:
Donald Braswell
Singer
Eli Mattson
Singer/pianist
Jessica Price
Singer
Joseph Hall
Elvis Presley impersonator
Kaitlyn Maher
4-year-old singer
Neal E. Boyd
Singer
Nuttin But Stringz
Violinists
Paul Salos
Frank Sinatra impersonator
Queen Emily
Singer
Wright Kids
Bluegrass trio
Wright Kids America’s Got Talent 3
Sage (12), Baruch (9), and Levi (6) are the Wright Kids. In their top 20 performance, they left their bluegrass roots in favor of their rendition of Rockin Robin.
Paul Salos America’s Got Talent 3
71-year-old Paul Salos is a Frank Sinatra stylist who brings back old blue eyes. In this video, he sings Sinatra’s Fly Me to the Moon.
Nuttin But Stringz America’s Got Talent 3
Nuttin But Stringz are a violin duo who may well make playing the violin cool. Here’s a video of their semifinal performance.
Eli Mattson America’s Got Talent 3
Eli Mattson is a singer and piano player appearing on America’s Got Talent season 3. Here’s a video of his top 20 performance of If I Ain’t Got You.
Big Brother 10 Episode 27
With his veto win, Memphis ensured the Renegades would make the final three (while Dan worked on getting a couple more votes) in Big Brother 10 Episode 26. The option between Jerry and Keesha was an obvious one, as keeping Jerry in the house should make for an easy one-two HOH competition for the boys.
Jerry believes that Memphis is his ally. Apparently.
Dan plays up what happened, and he pretends he’s pissed off at Memphis, which Jerry seems to be buying, despite the fact that it gets so over the top it’s silly after a while.
Jerry is the first one to fall off his plane, pretty quickly. The plan after that is for Memphis to fall next, as Dan continues to be overdramatic about how Memphis stabbed Keesha in the back. Whatever the plan may have been, Dan’s starting to struggle a bit, with Memphis refusing to drop. Eventually, though, Memphis does fall, and he says it was just an illusion to make it not look like he threw the competition. Dan wins the first part of the final HOH competition.
Dan walks out with some boxing gloves for part two of the final HOH competition. Jerry just hopes he doesn’t die. In each round, the fighters must leave standing the HOH and final nominees from each week. Memphis is doing a pretty good job of knocking down the cutouts like dominoes, while Jerry goes out for a Sunday stroll. Memphis is concerned with his time, but he’s got nothing to worry about. With a time of 8:35, Memphis wins part two of HOH. Jerry’s time? 51:22. I said wow.
Michelle thinks it will be interesting to tell whoever walks in that she got taken on a trip to a beach. Except Keesha already knows it. April says that Keesha’s elimination is karma. And April wants Jerry to win. Are you kidding me?
The final part of the final HOH competition is the usual statements from the jury house.
Libra: If I could go back in time in this game, I would change:
Alliance or behavior
Alliance
Dan is correct and gets a point
April: Coasted under the radar:
Jerry or Memphis
Memphis
Memphis is correct and gets a point
Michelle: Best strategic move in the house:
Winning HOH and getting revenge for Jessie, or being backdoored
When she was backdoored
Both are correct and get a point
Ollie: Fatal error in the house:
Trusting Dan or letting heart get into the game
Letting heart get into the game
Both are incorrect
Renny: Moment in the house that was most irritating:
Jerry brushing dentures in the sink or Jessie being a punk and disrespecting her
When Jerry brushed his dentures in the sink
Dan is correct and gets a point
Keesha: Most uncomfortable moment in the house:
30th birthday or the night before her eviction
Night before her eviction
Dan is correct and gets a point.
Dan wins HOH.
Whichever way it goes, it looks like this game is Dan’s to lose. In spite of April’s insanity, his best bet is to pick Jerry, but I don’t think it would hurt him any if he were to save face and stick with his ally. Dan stays true to the Renegades and votes to evict Jerry from the Big Brother house. Jerry expects to be the deciding vote and hints that he’ll be voting for Memphis.
America will get the chance to vote for their favorite jury member, who will win $25,000. I suspect this is between Renny and Keesha.
Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of Big Brother 10 episode 29, where we will find out who the Big Brother 10 winner is, which airs Tuesday at 8/7c on CBS.
NPD August 2008
Nintendo DS 518.3k
Wii 453k
PSP 253k
Xbox 360 195.2k
PS3 185.4k
PS2 144.1k
1. Madden NFL 09 (EA, Xbox 360) – 1 million
2. Madden NFL 09 (EA, PS3) – 643k
3. Madden NFL 09 (EA, PS2) – 424.5k
4. Wii Fit (Nintendo, Wii) – 394.9k
5. Mario Kart Wii (Nintendo, Wii) – 328.7k
6. Wii Play (Nintendo, Wii) – 200.2k
7. Soul Calibur IV (Namco, Xbox 360) – 174k
8. Too Human (Microsoft, Xbox 360) – 168.2k
9. Madden NFL 09 (EA, Wii) – 115.8k
10. Guitar Hero: On Tour (Activision, Nintendo DS) – 111.2k
Wii had a less overwhelming but still convincing victory for August over lackluster performances by the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. With 2.3 million units sold, Madden 09 was a strong performer and easily dominated the month (Wii version’s humiliation notwithstanding). What Nintendo lacked in third party power, though, they made up for in first party strength with Wii Fit, Mario Kart Wii, and Wii Play all continuing their run. Too Human had a pretty lackluster launch all things considered.
With both Xbox 360 and PS3 receiving price cuts this month, it should make for an interesting NPD next month, albeit perhaps not interesting enough. The big game for September looks to be Star Wars Force Unleashed.