Guitar Hero 3 Makes a Shredder Out of "Devil Went Down to Georgia"

The Devil Went Down to Georgia has been on the Guitar Hero III playlist for a little while now, and if you're familiar with the song you'll get a kick out of what they've done with it. It's the final song in the game, and seeing as how some song tiers culminate in a boss battle with a rock icon (Slash, Bret Michaels, etc) and this song is about a musical showdown with the Devil... Do you see where I'm going here? It seems that Satan, the muse of all rock music, is the final boss of Guitar Hero III. They're calling him "Lou," as in "Lou Cifer," but make no mistake it is the Dark One. And good luck, the song has been turned into a truly hellish shredder:

Hit the jump for the full tracklist.

Tier 1:
Foghat - Slow Ride
Poison - Talk Dirty to Me
Pat Benatar - Hit Me With Your Best Shot
Social Distortion - Story of My Life

Encore: Kiss - Rock and Roll All Nite
Co-op Encore: Beastie Boys - Sabotage

Tier 2:
Mountain - Mississippi Queen
Alice Cooper - School's Out
Cream - Sunshine of Your Life
Heart - Barracuda

Boss: Tom Morello - Guitar Battle
Encore: Rage Against the Machine - Bulls on Parade
Co-op Encore: The Strokes - Reptilia

Tier 3:
The Killers - When You Were Young
AFI - Miss Murder
The Who - The Seeker
Priestess - Lay Down

Encore: Rolling Stones - Paint It Black
Co-op Encore: Red Hot Chili Peppers - Suck My Kiss

Tier 4:
Black Sabbath - Paranoid
The Sex Pistols - Anarchy in the UK
Sonic Youth - Kool Thing
Weezer - My Name Is Jonas

Encore: Pearl Jam - Evenflow
Co-op Encore: Blue Oyster Cult - Cities on Flame with Rock and Roll

Tier 5:
The Dead Kennedy's - Holiday in Cambodia
Scorpions - Rock You Like a Hurricane
Aerosmith - Same Old Song and Dance
ZZ Top - La Grange

Boss: Slash - Guitar Battle
Encore: Guns N Roses - Welcome to the Jungle
Co-op Encore: Bloc Party - Hellicopter

Tier 6:
Santana - Black Magic Woman
Smashing Pumpkins - Cherub Rock
White Zombie - Black Sunshine
Tenacious D - The Metal

Encore: Stevie Ray Vaughn - Pride and Joy
Co-op Encore: Matchbook Romance - Monsters

Tier 7:
Slipknot - Before I Forget
Disturbed - Stricken
Queens of the Stone Age - 3's and 7's
Muse - Knights of Cydonia

Encore: Living Colour - Cult of Personality

Tier 8:
Slayer - Raining Blood
Eric Johnson - Cliffs of Dover
Iron Maiden - Number of the Beast
Metallica - One

Boss: Lou - Guitar Battle
Encore: The Devil Went Down to Georgia

Bonus Tracks:

An Endless Sporadic - Impulse
Backyard Babies - Minus Celsius
Bret Michaels Band - Go That Far
Die Toten Hosen - Hier Kommit Alex
Dragonforce - Through the Fire and the Flames
Fall of Troy - FCP Remix
Gallows - In the Belly of a Shark
The Hellacopters - I'm in the Band
Heroes del Silencio - Avalancha
In Flames - Take This Life
Kaiser Chiefs - Ruby
Killswitch Engage - My Curse
LA Slum Lords - Down N Dirty
Lacuna Coil - Closer
Lions - Metal Heavy Lady
NAAST - Mauvis Garcon
Prototype - The Way It Ends
Revolverhead - Generation Rock
Rise Against - Prayer of the Refugee
Scouts of St. Sebastian - In Love
Senses Fail - Can't Be Saved
The Sleeping - Don't Hold Back
The Stone Roses - She Bangs the Drums
Superbus - Radio Song

New Video: Bionic Commando Trailer

Bionic Commando, the NES sidescroller with grappling hook arm action, is finally back, coming to the Xbox 360, PS3 and PC. While twenty years ago your hook extended just enough to get you up to the platform right above you, now it turns you into Spider-Man, swinging around a post-apocalyptic city like you were born in the sky. Oh, and do you recognize that voice? Sure enough, it's Mike Patton of Mr. Bungle/Faith No More/Lovage fame!

Funny Windows Errors Evoke Nostalgia From Traitorous Mac Users

Many of us at Geekanerd's are long-time PC users who switched to Macs several years ago (or in some cases, about a week ago). And while I personally have gotten far better usage out of my Mac, I have a certain lingering allegiance to the wacky world of Start Menus and Critical Errors. I guess that's why looking at this collection of strange and infuriating windows errors felt like a stroll down memory lane. Stockholm syndrome, anyone?

Commenters on the post have pointed out that several of these are almost certainly Photoshopped - the image above even has some very suspicious distortion around the text that smacks of a shoddy PaintShop job. But you never know with Windows; that could just be the desktop disintegrating before your very eyes.

Via Haha.Nu

Trailer and Gameplay from the Penny Arcade Game

If'n you don't know by now, the fine millionaires folks at the very funny gamer webcomic Penny Arcade are putting together a video game themselves, entitled Penny Arcade: On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness: Episode I. Above is the trailer that (rather smartly) features the 2D cutscenes much more than the actual 3D gameplay. And after the jump are videos that spotlight the character creation system (your character will be a 3D model in gameplay and an actual fully animated 2D character in the cutscenes, which is tre cool) and the battle system.




You know, it's been a long time since I've played a non-swords and sorcery RPG (the original Fallout was probably the last), so I'm pretty pumped about the Lovecraftian 20's setting displayed here.