Rock Band: So Awesome, It Will Save Your Marriage
Rachel Shukert writes on Salon.com (a site I hesitate to read further on, due to the fact that it may or may not be the online equivalent of one of those magazines you find in the dentists office) about how Rock Band saved her marriage.
Ok, so that may be hyperbole. But she was, until her husband brought home Rock Band, a gaming widow. She’d sit by, and despair, while her husband and his noise cancelling headphones killed whatever the enemy of the day was. Rock Band made it possible for them to have a gaming activity they could enjoy together, and thereby removed the gaming from the widow, and seeing as her husband was still alive, kind of nixed the widow part too.
Of course, there may have been something slightly wrong with the man anyway, as he turned down boobies to play a World War II shooter.
Article found via Eurogamer
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May 28th, 2008 at 1:18 pm
I actually read this article yesterday but couldn’t figure out how to turn it into news and remove all the useless bits. Bravo, Mark!
It read sorta bloggy to me but essentially was a good thing. I actually think RockBand is bringing a lot of gamers closer to their significant others, especially the ones that aren’t gamers themselves.
Hell, we got my mother-in-law to try it out, playing the drums and singing. Even though it was on easy, she never once caused us to fail the song. I wish I could say the same for some other (younger) friends of ours who’ve tried it.