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• Game Bytes: Video game journalism needs to dig deeper

  I can write the above paragraph because those numbers are common knowledge. Unfortunately, we can't have that same discussion with video games. Why? Because publishers simply don't divulge budgets, and they only report sales numbers when they're...

• Game Bytes: Take a break from the 'Call of Duty' franchise

  

  This year will feature another November, and you know what that meas: more “Call of Duty.” Crap. You know, I’m just about sick of “Call of Duty.” No, I absolutely am sick of “Call of Duty.” I’m...

• Counting Crows to play Tuscaloosa Amphitheater June 28

  

  Counting Crows will play the Tuscaloosa Amphitheater at 7 p.m. June 28, Red Mountain Entertainment announced this morning. Opening acts for the show will be named later.

• Snoop Dogg, Wiz Khalifa highlight Crawfish Boil in Birmingham

  

  This weekend’s Schaeffer Eye Center Crawfish Boil throws out some classic rock, or at least classic-aged rockers, hip-hop, a taste of jam, a twang of country and a smidgen of pop, with a lineup headed by rappers Snoop Dogg, Wiz Kahlifa,...

• Adam Yauch of the Beastie Boys dies at 47

  

  Adam Yauch, the gravelly voiced Beastie Boys rapper and the most conscientious member of the seminal hip-hop group, has died. He was 47. Yauch's representatives confirmed that the rapper died Friday morning in New York after a nearly three-year...

• Scaggs, McDonald to be part of Amp show

  

  The Dukes of September Rhythm Revue 2012, including Boz Scaggs, Donald Fagen from Steely Dan and Michael McDonald from the Doobie Brothers, will play the Tuscaloosa Amphitheater at 8 p.m. July 28.

• ‘Prototype 2’ more of the first game’s fun

  

  The original “Prototype” wasn’t quite a perfect game, but it was close. Once it got going, it was more thrilling to play than just about any other game out there. By “once it got going” I mean once you got all your...

• GAME BYTES: Future of phone gaming?

  

  Believe it or not, I do more than just write columns for Tusk to make money. One of the other things I do is review apps and games for Android phones and the iPad. There are a lot of those games out there, but there are some areas that are sorely...

• MEET THE BAND: Shiny Machine

  

  The members of Shiny Machine are about as musically eclectic as a band can be...

• A closer look at the summer movie line-up

  

  The summer movie season kicks off with a bang at midnight Thursday with “The Avengers,” Marvel's long-awaited assemblage of its superheroes. Looking to the weeks ahead, it seems a guarantee that by the end of the summer you'll be...

• MEET THE BAND: Doobie ‘Doghouse' Wilson

  

  In 1967 Alan Lane's sister bought him a Takamine acoustic guitar for his 14th birthday. He learned to play some popular folk songs of the time and eventually discovered blues musicians such as Robert Johnson and Muddy Waters. Lane, who goes by the...

• GAME BYTES: Most big titles are overpriced

  

  I’ve been having some money troubles lately, so this week I took a pile of the games I had bought over the last year or so into GameStop and traded them in for store credit. With my credit, I paid for “Prototype 2,” a pre-order of...

Tusk Editor's Notes

• Tusk Editor's Note: May 18, 2012

  Some years back, on the eternal goof that is just as responsible for keeping us young and vital as any of Satchel Paige’s sage advice, I wrote about big-print entities that mangle the language. Don’t get me started on words that once may...