On the twelfth day of Christmas, Pocket Gamer gave to me...
Twelve drummers drumming - come on boys, make some noise, it's all over for another year
It's finally time to take down your decorations and start booking your holidays. Actually the transitional day of the post-Christmas period is January 6th or, in the church calendar, Epiphany - the celebration of the visit of the Three Wise Men or the manifestation of Christ into the world, depending on your particular viewpoint.
In the meantime though, we have to deal with those drummers...
At least, after yesterday's embarrassing piper debacle, we have vaguely good news. There might not be any portable drumming games but there are plenty of guitar games. Ubisoft's been the prime mover with Guitar Legend blazing a trail across mobile, although its Jam Sessions on DS sunk without a trace, despite gaining a reasonable amount of pre-release publicity.
The big impact however is sure to be Guitar Hero. Americans are already rocking out with Guitar Hero III Mobile (us Brits will have to wait until February or April, depending on operator), the Wii version has knocked Pokémon Diamond off the top spot on the Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection and a DS version, including an as-yet undisclosed peripheral, is due any time now.
Meanwhile, EA/Harmonix hasn't expressed any interest in a portable version of its guitar, microphone and drums-based Rock Band game yet, but we'd be amazed if it doesn't come, at least to mobile, in some form or other.
If not, another publisher can come up with a platform/action game called Bizarre Gardening Accident, starring John 'Stumpy' Pepys, who fights off waves of rhododendron with his sharpened Zildjian sticks.
Cue drum roll and your narrator leaves, exhausted, stage left...
