This is a transcription of Thomas Barth’s remix of Fat Man, a Marathon track. The remixed version is part of the new soundtrack for the AlephOne version of Marathon, named Fat Man2. It is almost impossible to play both hands together, but if you can just learn the right hand by itself it still sounds cool.

Also just ignore the thick repeat double barlines in the middle of the piece — they should be regular repeat double barlines to mark the different sections of the song, but PrintMusic won’t let me do that. I also remind you that it is in the “Blues” key of C, which is why there are a bunch of seemingly random accidentals.

Hope you enjoy it — have fun!

Transcription of “Ghosts of Reach” from the Halo 2 soundtrack.

It’s time for King of the Hill, where we talk about the top games available to Halo fans and how they compare to the king: Halo 2. This month’s top challenger is GRAW 2. If you’re like me, you’ve played GRAW 1 but you’re wondering what new features this has and whether it improved on some problems GRAW 1 had. Got a question about multiplayer, maps, clans, weapons, vehicle control, the UAV? Wondering about lag, the new medic class, and full-screen cross-com? Now’s your chance to ask! We’ll be bringing on some people that are into the game to talk about it in detail and get down to the nitty-gritty about what Halo fans would think of this game.

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If you haven’t escaped to Piñata Island yet, now is the time. The official Viva Piñata demo has arrived on Xbox LIVE® Marketplace and is waiting for you! Now is the chance to meet many of the more than 60 species of Piñata featured in Viva Piñata, the Xbox 360 game that everyone will enjoy. Head over to Xbox LIVE Marketplace today to meet these extraordinary creatures!

The playable demo will be available exclusively to Xbox LIVE Gold members for one week and then made available to all subscribers afterward. This demo will provide you with the opportunity to visit Piñata Island, where you’ll pick up a shovel and a watering can to transform a barren plot of land into a paradise to attract wild-roaming Piñata animals looking for a home. Enjoy a vibrant world where you create and customize your own environment to attract and care for wild Piñatas. As your reputation and garden grows, you’ll attract new, more exotic Piñatas, each with their own unique style and personality. You can even buy houses for your Piñatas!

Created by world-renowned video game developer Rare Ltd, Viva Piñata is packed with hundreds of personalization options: name your Piñatas, decide where to plant grass and flowers, hire helpers to help run your Piñata paradise and more. The colorful, fully customizable game takes you into a world with all kinds of possibilities. And no two games are ever the same. From hardcore gamers to families looking for a fun time together, Viva Piñata is an experience not to be missed.

The playable demo provides a taste of what’s available in the Xbox 360 game, which is available at stores for a suggested retail price of $49.00. This demo will be available in the U.S. only on Tuesday, March 13. Localized versions of this demo will follow soon after in Japan, France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the U.K.

For those who have dreams of becoming the next Cliffy B, look no further. Microsoft releases XNA Game Studio Express as a free download. Don’t miss this opportunity to show your friends and the world what you are made of. Read more about the goings-on in the world of XNA.

Today, the XNA Game Studio Express Challenge teams, together with Microsoft, unveiled their completed games to the public at the Game Developers Conference in celebration of the launch of the “Dream-Build-Play” global game design contest. The “Dream-Build-Play” contest offers aspiring game developers the opportunity to showcase their game design ideas and talent to the world, as well as the chance to have the top game published on Xbox LIVE Arcade.

Each XNA Game Studio Express Challenge team worked from Monday, March 5, to Thursday, March 8, at Windows Vista stations in the XNA Lobby Bar at the Game Developers Conference to bring their game to life.

The four games include:

“DungeonQuest,” a 3D action RPG from independent game developers Benjamin Nitschke and Christoph Rienaecker from exDream in Germany. Benjamin and Christoph managed to include two player co-op multiplayer in this expansive dungeon crawler.

“Simian Escape,” from independent game developers Jonathon Stevens and Patrick Glanville from the United States, is a 2D run-and-jump game in a prehistoric setting built with the help of Torque X.

“Damage Control” is a game created by hobbyist game developer Josh Butterworth from the United Kingdom with the remote assistance of Maher “m0dus” Al-Samkari and the NeoGAF community. “Damage Control” is a four player multiplayer siege game where you must defend your base from wave after wave of invading aliens.

“AbduX,” from graduate student game developer Andre Furtado from Brazil, is a zany action game that turns the tables on the classic humanity vs. aliens formula. This time, the player assumes the role of an alien and pilots a flying saucer through the countryside to abduct unsuspecting earthlings while trying to avoid detection. What’s impressive about “AbduX” is how it incorporates voice recognition commands to control functions of the spacecraft.

The games are now available for download by the public for free on http://creators.xna.com/ . Anyone with XNA Game Studio Express can play the games on a Windows PC. You can design your own game by downloading XNA Game Studio Express for free at msdn.xna.com.

For more information about the “Dream-Build-Play” game design contest, visit www.dreambuildplay.com.

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This time Cryptoflix teams up with Kiaffex to deliver this double easter egg attack. Kiaffex handles all the game play while Cryptoflix soothes our ears with his english accent. Watching this makes you wonder how the heck people found these things in the first place.

Check out this fan made Halo AR Replica reported on HBO. Here’s, Link4044’s website with some more pictures. I’ve always wondered how this thing was to be held because of the strange stock on it. Not sure if I’d want to have to fight with something this weird in real life though. It seems there’s nowhere to brace the gun against your shoulder. It’s as if it’s almost a ‘fire from the hip’ type of weapon. Cool none the less. Now all that’s left is for someone to come up with a fully functional one.