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Bill Ruppert is back with more cool EHX gear . This time he turns a guitar into a string bass using only pedals and he adds a slow snare drum by rubbing the strings with a warranty card.

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New Effectology Episode: Turning a git-fiddle into a bass

Want to blow some horns and play the timpani on your guitar? Bill Ruppert posted a how-to using only EHX pedals and his own, specific obsession with making his crazy sounds come out of his electric guitars.

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Effectology: Horns and Drums

So the new Steam UI just went live today, and soon we may be seeing that Mac version everybody’s been chattering about. I’m looking forward to it, and hoping the 9400M in my MacBook Pro will be able to handle Portal 2 . Other, more practical people are putting together comprehensive “all we know” lists about the program, widely anticipated (in vain) as savior of gaming on the Mac

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Steam for Mac building st… momentum; users compile feature list in anticipation

According to some commenters, this hack has been around since the ’40s.

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Old school hack: rope a lawnmower (or goat) to a stake

Good old Bill Ruppert posted another Effectology video showing off the creation of Uilleann pipe and drum sounds with EHX gear and a guitar. The actual settings are here including all the pedals he used. What are uilleann pipes, you ask?

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Effectology: Uilleann pipes, field drums and guitars

Get ready for another movie franchise re-boot! Yes, Warner Bros.

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Warner Bros. looking to reboot Superman movie franchise. Again.

Holy wow.

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Blaster Master coming to Wiiware

ESPN plans to launch a 3D channel in time for this year’s World Cup.

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You don’t want to see sports in 3D

Bill is at it again with this Crystal-Shimmer effect. He used parallel effects to create a “symphonic sound” of multiple octaves at once based on one note on the guitar. It’s a bit complex but there’s a full write up at EHX

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Effectology: Crystal-Shimmer

I literally just said “Wow!” out loud looking at these screenshots of Perfect Dark for Xbox Live Arcade. There’s a few more screenshots on Rare’s Web site, but only the ones here have before and after comparison shots: While I’m all of a sudden looking forward to playing the game again, it’s sorta depressing to think that this will never happen to GoldenEye .

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You will be impressed by the latest Perfect Dark for Xbox Live Arcade screenshots