Totally just got my copy of Guitar Hero Van Halen in the mail today. 
 
   
 
 
Yeah, came in a little cardboard sleeve like Wii Sports and stuff like that. Gives you a website for the game manual and such like that. 
 
Now, my true question as to if it has the neat features of GH5 is about to be answered. *pops it in* 
 
It doesn't have the Party Play option that GH5 has, but it has a neat little intro like Guitar Hero Metallica does. Eddie playing Eruption and stuff. No, I don't know why I am not playing it though...  
 
Ok, I just played a song and then immediately played an encore... Yes, this seems to be exactly what Guitar Hero Metallica did a few months ago. This game seems like it should have come out before GH5, simply because Guitar Hero made a lot of great innovations in 5 and now this one is going back on that.  
 
On a note of Achievements, this game is the most relentless GH game since GH3. There are separate achievements for 5 starring every song in career on expert, for each instrument... You can see them for yourself here of course.  http://www.giantbomb.com/guitar-hero-van-halen/61-25536/achievements/ 
 
Lastly, the setlist in this game is at least looking to be awesome, like Guitar Hero Metallica. If you like Van Halen, I think you will like the stuff on here. Some notable side act songs are as follows: Semi-Charmed Life by Third Eye Blind, Double Vision by Foreigner, and... Stacy's Mom by Fountains of Wayne... Yeah, that is on here... 
 
Initially quite sad that GH5's innovations are absent from this game, but I guess that is just because Guitar Hero doesn't like me enough to have a good interface / career AND a good setlist at the same time... I guess I'll have to make due.    

So, I have a copy of Supreme Commander from that distant past Best Buy blowout, and I want to try it out and at least give it a chance before I never play it again. However, my Red Elite console refuses to read the disk properly. So, I thought I was getting all wily and went and used my old white Xbox to install the game to the 120gb hard drive from my Elite. Apparently the other box has no difficulty reading the disk. 

I've gotten through a significant portion of RE5 over the past day or so and I totally love the game. It is almost exactly like RE4 for how the progression of craziness blends throughout the game. Every boss fight or random room situation you come across always seems harder or more ridiculous than the last. It is that intense difficulty curve that fit RE4 so well and it is back in RE5.

What else could I have asked for in Resident Evil 5? I'm not sure. I don't need much as I still will say "What are you buyin'" every time the item management screen comes up. So whatever else I am still happy.

I'm also loving the story, but that is all you get there.

Full review will be posted on the site once I get done with the game and get a bit of Mercenaries under my belt.

I love street fighter 4. It is the awesome, simple, fast-paced, fighting game I have needed to give me faith in that genre of game.

At first, I spent that $60 and regretted it when I realized how much I still sucked at Street Fighter, but now that I'm getting pretty decent at SFIV I keep wanting to play it. Capcom did it right to have simple move lists. Fighting games in general now are too deep in their expansive move lists, as if I really need 674 different ways to punch a dude in the face.

My only complaint about the game is the fact that everyone thinks Ryu and Ken are the cliche characters of the saga, that everyone plays as them in order to do well. I dislike this because I am good with Ryu and I like how he plays. Sometimes online this makes me feel bad for picking him so damn much. Too bad, double fireball HML Punch is much better than the BassAckwards Ultra that Guile has...

Yes, I can do Guile's Ultra. The question instead is, Do I want to do it? Maybe.

Such a fantastic game, I can't wait till they make the Online interactions more fluid and fun. (Hint to Capcom: look at DoA4 for this, i loved the lobby system there.)

As a random update. I recently finished God of War: Chains of Olympus. Pretty good game overall. I'll put up a review sometime when i have time.

Other things I am working on include:
FFVII: Crisis Core - Almost done with it I am sure
Untold Legends: Warrior's Code - Long time consuming game. I'll finish it someday, but it is dragging out.
Patapon - I suck at this game, I just can't keep the rhythm going, and I'm the drummer folk in Rock Band 2

Another random point. Aurora Feint for iPhone must be the greatest free game ever... Its time consuming fun and I really like it for being a free game.

I start Marine Combat Training later tonight, so I will have to post my reviews for these games sometime after I beat them and get to a real computer. Someone work on an iPhone app for this site please! The iPhone really hates typing blog posts and such on here. Oh well.

Toodles.