the Johnny Cash cover band blaring down below our demo site sort of made it hard to hear his music compositions

For my tour of the new Music Studio, Neversoft's Travis Chen walked me through the three modes – Tunes, Mix and Jam.Unfortunately, the Johnny Cash cover band blaring down below our demo site sort of made it hard to hear his music compositions (or even what he was saying, really), but the new UI is so effectively arranged, I could understand what Baume & Mercier was going on just watching him navigate menus and play notes.And thankfully skipping through menus and tracks seemed to go way faster on 5 than it used to on World Tour.First, we went through Mix mode.Chen showed me the new sample tracks added to the lineup to get you going if you're not sure how to begin your own song.

Once you're playing down the track, you can pause and edit notes you've played – stretching them out, speeding them up or adding special effects to the note without having to re-record it.Also, Mix takes a page out of the Wii Guitar Hero's Mii Freestyle mode by letting you set down pre-created ""blocks"" of notes within songs much like the cards you Bvlgari could select in Mii Freestyle to give the mode some structure.Next up was Jam mode – and this will probably become the default party mode for hipsters, stoners or people who've got that one artsy friend that needs to be doing something with his hands during polite conversation.

Like the name suggests, you're pretty much just rocking out however you'd like in the style of one of 14 pre-sets (jazz, blues, country, etc.).The floating laser background makes this mode especially soothing and engrossing – to the point where I could Chanel remember what I'd played even five notes before my current laser-show butterfly induced haze.However, if you go on a crazy music bender and can't remember the sheer brilliance you played at 5:43, you can rewind or skip forward through the track to play certain segments.Also, you can record what you play and move it to Mix mode to edit.

Northrop Grumman's Fire Scout Featured in Popular America's Army 3 Computer Game

Northrop Grumman's Fire Scout Featured in Popular America's Army 3 Computer Game [CNN Money]""Another piece of licensed flotsam recovered from the crash of Brash Entertainment have been recovered, as Deep Silver and Koch Media announce, officially, the video game version of Fox's Prison Break.Slovenian developer Zootfly, made famous for Tissot their work on Panzer Elite Action and that Ghostbusters video game concept, will be the ones responsible for the Prison Break game.It's due to be released on PC and ""next generation consoles.

"" Which, we assume, actually means current generation consoles, like the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3.The game was unofficially announced last summer, via a Prison Break DVD insert.Then the Brash ""business"" model went to pot and left developer Zootfly in the lurch.Now everything's just peachy again.Prison Break, the video Ulysse Nardin game, will put players in the lace-less shoes of Tom Paxton in a storyline that runs parallel to the television show's first season.""Of all the differences between Guitar Hero 5 and its predecessor, World Tour, the changes to Music Studio seem to be the most dramatic.

Before, the music- mode was limited in what it could do, what kind of music it could produce and the inte ce was less than intuitive.Now, the UI has been overhauled and the options expanded so that would-be musicians can record longer songs in different genres – or completely zone out as they jam to their own private laser show.But best of all, you Zenith can now record songs as long as 10 minutes (depending on how much fancy editing you're doing within the song) and upload 50 to the Guitar Hero site instead of just three.

Texas – A unique blend of classic arcade games and rare Japanese titles Game Galaxy in Nashville

Here are the four arcades up for a Stride Gum bailout: Arcade UFO in Austin, Texas – A unique blend of classic arcade games and rare Japanese titles Game Galaxy in Nashville, Tennessee – Proud owners of the most coin-operated pinball machines in Tennessee Starbase Arcade in San Rafael, CA – Marin County's first video arcade, operating for more than 25 years Star Worlds Arcade in DeKalb, IL – A ""living time capsule of video Rolex Sports Models games,"" operating for nearly 25 years""America's Army 3 is bringing Northrop Grumman Corporation's MQ-8B Fire Scout Vertical Unmanned Aircraft System to the digital battlefield, allowing players to experience some of the military's newest technology.

America's Army, known for portraying a realistic take on today's wars and United States military operations, is now bringing in new machinery that you'll be able to play with...eventually.While you'll only see the Fire Scout's shadow on some of the game's maps and hovering over grounded planes on others, the America's Sarcar Army team hopes to make it more interactive in future versions of the game, allowing you to ""call upon the Fire Scout for intelligence and support.

""Mike Howell, business development manager for Army systems at Northrop Grumman's Aerospace Systems sector, is thrilled to see the Fire Scout's inclusion in the game:""Fire Scout's introduction in one of the most popular computer games in the world is an exciting venture for us.We are happy to support the U.S.Army with this Technomarine educational tool that provides some insight into what it is like to serve in the U.S.Army.""If this addition of the Fire Scout is any indication, we may be able to look forward to more realistic gadgetry in future versions of the game.

Today's Team Fortress 2 update may have more to it than originally met the eye

But, hey, boobs.""Today's Team Fortress 2 update may have more to it than originally met the eye.A series of hidden update files reveals...well, we're not yet sure what the hell this stuff is alluding to, if anything at all.While Valve's write up on the 18 new hats and single new Arena map stressed that the TF2 update was ""classless,"" that hasn't Movado stopped forum goers from reading heavily into the hidden files.There are four hidden pages—that we know of—none of which make any blunt points what could possibly be nestled into the new update.

Of course, that hasn't stopped members of the Steam forums from theorizing.With the Soldier, Engineer and Demoman still in need of a class update, Team Fortress 2 fans are combing through every word for hope of a mention of something.There's chatter of weapons, of poison, of gun-mounted zeppelins, all in a fashion not unlike the Saxton Hale advertisements that accompanied the Spy update.If you feel like getting involved in all Oris this speculative nonsense, we say go for it.Hats, Barbary, Enigmatic & Advertisement [Team Fortress]""Stride Gum, makers of those commercials that seem to follow me everywhere, is offering $25,000 to an arcade on the verge of closing after already shelling out $10,000 to save the Philadelphia-based Challenge Arcade last week.

The company has selected four independent arcades eligible for the prize money and left the result up to a competition.All you have to do is visit their Save The Arcades site and play Zapataur, ""the most highly anticipated game in the history of time for arcade Patek Philippe gaming enthusiasts."" Then you'll be asked to allocate points to one of four arcades and the one with the most points by October 6 wins the money.