Harmonix, MTV Games, and Electronic Arts announced Rock Band 2 today. Set for release in September on the Xbox 360 with the PS3 version "to follow", one of the most exciting features appears to be full compatibility with all the content you downloaded for Rock Band 1. The press release also cites "improved guitar and drum peripherals" while maintaining backwards compatibility with the old instruments.

Rock Band is certainly a big hit at ICHQ and at Icrontic events. Rock Band 2 is sure to be in our future somewhere.

Two decades have passed since the demonic denizens, Diablo, Mephisto, and Baal, wandered the world of Sanctuary in a vicious rampage to shackle humanity into unholy slavery. Yet for those who battled the Prime Evils directly, the memory fades slowly and the wounds of the soul still burn.

Today Blizzard let loose a fury of Diablo III information, in the form of a teaser splash page, Diablo III job opportunities, and an official D3 website for the EU. The EU website hints at a new character class, the Witch Doctor, and there are lots of screenshots and gameplay videos to be found.

Shwaip, it was nice knowing you.

As we grow, we bid a fond farewell to the Rizon IRC network, with our most sincere gratitude... However, we've outgrown Rizon's 5-machine-per-IP-per-server limit, and every time we have events at ICHQ we get k-line bans... Therefore, our good friend Mondi has set us up with our own IRC server. Please update your clients to connect to irc.icrontic.com.

If you haven't ever visited us on #icrontic, you are missing out. So many fun things happen there, and if you feel like you're missing out on some inside jokes or some kind of hidden camaraderie, you probably are. It all happens in #icrontic.

Thanks Rizon! It was a fun run :)

If you take the actual Garfield out of the comic "Garfield".... you end up with something completely bizarre and morbid.... Check it out.

Valve's next "Meet the..." video has been released. You can see it on Steam.

We meet our beleaguered hero as he tries to juggle his professional life with his family problems. Apparently his parents aren't happy with his career choice.

Meet the Sniper - a true professional assassin; polite, discreet, and precise.

Entitled "TF2 Achievements Anyone Can Get", SomethingAwful used their Photoshop Phriday format to show us some achievements that might be a bit easier to get than some of the difficult ones..... Read on, if you play TF2 you are almost sure to lul.

Discuss...

Can't wait for THIS robot.

This video makes shaving seem THIS.CLOSE to being a sexual experience. Maybe it is...?

At any rate, I found the link over at Badger and Blade forums.

That is all.