We played.
We saw.
We enjoyed.
We Wii-hood yesterday.
Yes, as I told you we tried a Wii, we played tennis, bowling, some baseball and golf (I even did a par 4 with a chip-in!). We created two Miis and configured all the widgets it comes with and we can say that the Wii rocks.
This last weekend I got to see the Gears of War cinematic trailer twice, on the tv and on the cinema. Apart from the fascination the trailer causes (or could cause you) what really got me was the song in the background. It was one of those moments where you wish you could have a way to know what song, title, artist and album was that playing (and yes Amazon I know you have something similar but does not really work), and for once I thought I could never know (it was a familiar song for those of you wondering). Today, when checking the news I saw one (actually three cause blogs tend to be repetitive) that talked about gears of war song. I clicked and I found that the song called Mad World by Tears for fears was rocketed to number one in the itunes chart sales (or number 4 according to the other blog or number 12 by the third one...). Scared? Keep reading.
The scary thing here is that how videogames are so into the culture that they actually help drive sales of associated items (and this one actually does not even happen to be in the game itself, just in the trailer). How much did MS pay for the licence? No idea, but how much is Mercury Records Limit (making). Oh yes, and what has a degree of 10 in scariness is how much is Apple making through itunes for this song, a golden member of the long tail. Yippe!
For your enjoyment a direct link to the itunes chart can be found at the bottom as well as the video (famous by now maybe) of Gears of Wars.
Yuk! The locusts are coming - buddy we need to get the chainsaws and the machines guns because we are going to have a lot of fun!