VIDEO GAMES: Is that you or is someone strangling the cat?

In a couple of weeks a PS2 game will hit stateside that on the other side of the Atlantic has spawned five sequels. It is game that doesn't require that you be a gaming wiz, all you need is a sense of fun and a set of vocal chords.

SingStar Rocks! is it's name, and it plays much like the Karaoke Revolution series from Konami in that you have to sing in key to rack up the points.

What SingStar excels at is the fact it has fully licensed tracks, which no more second rate re-recordings of the classics. Not that KR's backups were bad, just for some you could tell the difference. Also it has the addition of each song playing it's original video in the background as you play. Plus the fact that for the same price as a KR game you will get Singstar with not one but two microphones.

What has me most exicted about this game is the song selection. More my style than the KR games have been as of yet. Here is the song list, I have bolded my personal picks to sing:

Girls & Boys - Good Charlotte
Take Your Mama - Scissor Sisters
Every Breath You Take - The Police
Banquet - Bloc Party
Song 2 - Blur
Speed Of Sound - Coldplay
Celebrity Skin - Hole
Are You Gonna Be My Girl? - Jet
Everything's Changing - Keane
Black Horse And The Cherry Tree - KT Tunstall
Wind Of Change - Scorpions
Hate To Say I Told You So - The Hives
Somebody Told Me - The Killers
Self-Esteem - The Offspring
Paint It Black - The Rolling Stones
The Boys Are Back in Town - Thin Lizzy
I Will Survive - I Will Survive
Respect - Aretha Franklin
Love Shack - B52s
Summertime - DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince
Son Of A Preacher Man - Dusty Springfield
Rocket Man - Elton John
Dance, Dance - Fall Out Boy
Cool - Gwen Stefani
Super Duper Love (Are You Diggin On Me?) - Joss Stone
Sweet Home Alabama - Lynyrd Skynyrd
I Heard It Through The Grapevine - Marvin Gaye
(There's) Always Something There To Remind Me - Naked Eyes
Friday I'm in Love - The Cure
Blue Orchid - The White Stripes

Sony are making the PS2 release of SingStar a test run for the full blown PS3 version. Which they claim will have a downloaded able song market, making song choice possibly unlimited.

It seems this year and for the Xmas rush SingStar will be getting the jump on the delayed Karaoke Revolution: American Idol. Even though it has a longer song list it just seems to lacking that rocking punch that SingStar looks to deliver.
Check out the song list:

All My Life - K-Ci and JoJo
Alone - Heart
Always Something There To Remind Me - Naked Eyes
Be Without You - Mary J. Blige
Breakaway - Kelly Clarkson
Build Me Up Buttercup - The Foundations
Can't Help Falling In Love - Elvis Presley
Crazy Little Thing Called Love - Queen
Dilemma - Nelly & Kelly Rowland
Do I Make You Proud - Taylor Hicks
Don't Let The Sun Go Down On Me - Elton John
Don't You Want Me - The Human League
Easy - Commodores
Every Rose Has It's Thorn - Poison
Flying Without Wings - Ruben Studdard
Heartbreaker - Pat Benatar
Heaven - Bryan Adams
Hungry Like The Wolf - Duran Duran
If You Don't Know Me By Now - Simply Red
It's Not Unusual - Tom Jones
Just The Way You Are - Billy Joel
Let's Stay Together - Al Green
Love Will Keep Us Together - Captain & Tennille
More Than Words - Extreme
Photograph - Nickelback
Piano Man - Billy Joel
Proud Mary - Tina Turner
Rock With You - Michael Jackson
Saving All My Love For You - Whitney Houston
She Bangs - Ricky Martin
Stand By Me - Ben E. King
Stickwitu - The Pussycat Dolls
Straight Up - Paula Abdul
Sugar We're Going Down - Fall Out Boy
The Real Thing - Bo Bice
Total Eclipse Of The Heart - Bonnie Tyler
Unwritten - Natasha Bedingfield
What A Girl Wants - Christina Aguilera
You And Me - Lifehouse
You've Lost That Lovin' Feeling - The Righteous Brothers

So instead of seeing you in that club you'll have to find me rocking out in my living room. Now only if I could hook my Guitar Hero up at the same time.

NEW TV SEASON 06/07: LOST

So here we are now 7 episodes in, and with one more left before the big break. And where exactly do we stand?

Well Jack has a decision to make, and whatever choice he makes could seem to be the right one. Does he trust Juliet? Is she lying about wanting to revolt against Ben. Well look at this way, there will be flashbacks involving Others this year. So it would stand to reason she is telling the truth and will end up on Jack's side.. but does that mean he has to kill off the show's villain.

Sawyer and Kate are still caged, with Sawyer being the only one who knows that they are not their island anymore, or are they?

Sayid returned to camp after having their boat stolen, no sign of Jin or Sun in episode 7, and he doesn't really mention anything other than saying he just got back. I suppose we are just meant to assume he told Locke and the rest what happened on the trek through the jungle.

Eko has sadly been lost to the island. Another sacrifice. Also another one proceeded by visions. Note how Dave tried to get Hurley to kill himself and when Jack saw his father in the first season he almost fell off a cliff too. It seems that the monster can take forms to play mind games on people. Jack's father, Dave, Eko's brother and even Kate's horse.

Do you think critics even watch the show anymore? As this morning in the USA today William Keck writes an small sidebar on the loss of Eko and mentions that he is the last of the tailes to die. Wrong. What happened to Bernard and Rose?

Now we have the new mysterious one-eyed man hiding in possibly the unseen Flame station. The buzz is that he is played by Andrew Divoff (Wishmaster), who also had a couple of guest stars on Alias.

We only found out about him thanks to the quick thinking of new lostie Nikki. Her and Paulo right now only seem to function as a form of narrative, they haven't done much so they have to keep asking questions thus keeping new audiences clued in on what is happening. The writers better think fast about doing something interesting with them or fans are gonna hope they come to a nasty end before the end of the year. Maybe Michael can come back and just shoot them on principle, now that would redeem him.