Don’t have a games console and can’t stand up from your computer long enough to pick up that plastic guitar? Then Piano Hero might be for you! Piano Hero is an open source (MIT license) quasi-instructional software which allows users to learn how to play any kind of music, from your favorite video game themes, to classical and holiday music, via your computer keyboard. Piano Hero supports any MIDI file, let’s you slow down songs while learning various parts and is naturally only for Windows 2000 and XP for now, but let us hope that an OS X port is on it’s way.

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Our brothers from a different mother over at GameSetWatch have dug up an incredibly juicy bit of information. That being that BRIAN ENO WILL BE CREATING THE SOUNDTRACK FOR WILL WRIGHT’S SPORE! If ever I wanted to stoop so low as to use the type of language you’d hear in World of Warcraft, it would be now. Eno, who has been digging deeply into generative music as of late, will be working together with the Spore team to create a soundtrack like only Eno could, one which uses procedural generation just as the game itself. As with Eno’s recent “77 Million Paintings” concept, Eno demonstrated his software tool called “The Shuffler” which creates random fragments of songs that would never be repeated the same way twice. Cunning move Mr. Wright, very cunning.

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The best move Take Two / 2K have ever made? Quite possibly. After 8 long years of hibernation, the Midnight Marauders, A Tribe Called Quest, have reunited for over a dozen dates of the annual 2K Sports Bounce Tour. All 3 original members are back, Phife Dawg, Ali Shaheed Muhammad, and Q-Tip, as well as a few new remixes from Dan the Automator and an appearance in the game 5they are promoting, NBA 2K7 from 2K Sports, a publishing label under the Take Two house.

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