It's been, what, a year since I last changed my banner and avatar?

While I'm still thinking of what to do with my banner, I've posted up a little temporary replacement. I think you can get which Bit.Trip game this is.

I know, random title, but I'm just having a load of fun with the Bit.Trip trilogy, and New Super Mario Bros. Wii, which any Wii owner should definitely keep.

The critics have been raving about it, and judging with my hands-on time with it (actually, for quite a few hours for 3 days), it's shaping up to be a great upgrade. It's still Windows because of some of the hang-ups that still occur, so I can safely say that for a lot of the time, the Mac's stability is better. But since I have a Windows PC running XP exclusively for games, I think it's fair to say that it's finally time I made the jump. I mean, who knows, the stability would probably better since it's not a netbook (the machine I tested 7 on was a netbook, and it was still astonishingly faster than I expected) but a full fledged custom made tower.

Then again, before I was introduced to Mac OS X Tiger, I was following Vista closely. I mean, it looked like the be-all and end-all of Windows versions, but when it was released and I had to go through some installation hang-ups and incompatibilities, as well as UAC that had to take 10 minutes to fade the screen alone, it was clear that Vista wasn't doing it for me. True, you can blame the Pentium 4 rig, but it was already the minimum requirement, so it should at least run Vista without Aero... which it didn't.

Now that I have a decent Core 2 Duo rig, it could be a proponent to a more pleasurable upgrade experience. It may not be OS X, but I still want to ask the question: should I upgrade and jump into the Windows 7 bandwagon?

Even though I'm a bit of a huge Rock Band fan, I wasn't very happy when WB announced a Lego Rock Band game. Actually, it kinda made me feel all dead inside. Beatles: Rock Band was fine, but this? This was overdoing it.

And yet here I am looking at the setlist and amazed at (some of) the selections. And by that I mean Queen. Seriously. That's kinda awesome.

True, Harmonix is going to release a 10-pack for Rock Band 2, but I reallywant to play "We Are The Champions" and "We Will Rock You". True, they're no Bohemian Rhapsody (which disappointingly isn't in the 10-pack either), but these songs are killer classics, no pun intended.

Then again, I'm kinda sick of that Boys Like Girls song "Thunder", "Suddenly I See" is a very puzzling selection, and the P!NK song, well, let's just say it's not up to par with my tastes. OK, I know, this is a decidedly kids-oriented game, thus the puzzling selections, but there are surprisingly a decent amount of songs that I see myself liking. Hell, "Just Dance" isn't going out of my head for a while, not after Elite Beat Agents.

In the end, I think I'm gonna buy the DS version, if only to experience the same gameplay of Unplugged on the PSP which they say is amazing.