For years, I’ve been a firm advocate of keeping tangible media in the market. And I still am. Meanwhile, I find myself again and again heeding the siren song of digital distribution à la Steam and PSN. I’ll always prefer a physical relationship with my multimedia (wait, that didn’t sound right), but I am warming up to accept the alternatives.

The latest snare to catch my maw is a game on Steam called AudioSurf. Think of it as a cross between Guitar Hero and F-Zero. Basically, it takes any audio file you have on your PC (MP3, m4a, flac, etc.) and turns the sound into a race track. The more tempo there is to the song, the more intense the course.

Multicolored blocks are scattered along the track; it’s your challenge to touch the colored ones while dodging the grey ones. There are different modes of play, each with their own rules and abilities. What made it worth my money is that the number of tracks for your to test yourself against is limited only by your music library. As someone who’s collected a few gigs of MP3s over the past decade, I’ve scored quite the bargain!

Here’s the video that first caught my attention:

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