XBL Radio Ver 25.0

TECH NEWS:
-The Xbox 360 Camera bundles up for the Holidays…
-AOL says: You’ve Got Game Reviews!
-Wii price speculation. Will it be bundled with a 360?

GAME NEWS:
-Chromehounds: Pay to Play?
-The PSP goes retro.
-An interview with Lee from the new BOMBERMAN game.

GAME REVIEWS:
-DEAD RISING: Carpal gives you thrills and chills of this gory single player game. No this isn’t a Jerry Garcia anthology. So load up the mini-van, and get your game on at the Mall.
-Texas Hold-Em: TOG and CT explain why this game is One Jack Off from a Royal Flush!

Plus: Useless Tips and more…

Wow, we are starting to get old. We might only look like we have done maybe 25 shows. But for those of you that listen to us know that we do the .0’s AND .5’s, so we have quite a bit of shows under our belt. And since its show 25.0 that means its time for MrCarpalTunnel and The Other Guy to give you another awesome show. Thats right I said TOG, he is back to XBL Radio after missing show 24.0. But for good reason… he had his first baby. So congrats again TOG and I hope you’re getting some sleep now.

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XBL Radio Blogcast site now has an RSS feed

Its about time! We have been asked about it since we have started up the new and improved site, and now we finally have it for you. There it is! Its the orange icon right under this sentence. Now you can get all the XBL Radio you desire off the air and on your RSS Reader.

Xbox 360 BackCompat List Expanded to 300- Titles

The backwards compatibility list grew a lot today thanks to Microsoft. And not only were older games put on there, but newer and UNRELEASED games as well, like Lego Starwars 2. So for all of you that thought MS was done working on this, here ya go. And for some more good news, they are continuing to work on this. Props to MS for continuing the BackCompat project.

Thanks to Gamerscore Blog for the heads up, click their link for the full story. And no Rusty! Midtown Madness 3 did not make the list this time! So keep playing GeoWars.

Uno Tournament Round 2

Alright its time for round 2. Round 2 will take place at 7pm pst on Wednesday August 30. Here are the rules, I don’t care who starts up the game as long as it gets started, but you must have standard uno, standard deck, NO CUSTOM RULES and ALL private seats. Now once the game is started, you will continue to play till someone has 3, yes 3 wins. If it is the computer, keep going till a human player has 3 wins. Now it is up to the winner to email who one, if I get no emails about that match, I will consider it a no show on everyones part. Now this is all an honesty tournament here. I can’t sit in on every match and watch so its up to you guys to police each other. Now the 2nd round will start this Wednesday at 7pst UNLESS all parties in that match agree on a different time, but I MUST have all results by Friday morning and then we will continue the finals where someone will be declared the UNO Champion and I will award them with some free MS Points. If you have any more questions feel free to email me at Steve@xblradio.com

Now for the bracket (there were some empty spot so I reinserted the xbl radio staff)

Match 1: ssab, goverland, the other guy 1, NXJ NightHawk
Match 2: Steve519, MysteryMVP, Maniac Mic
Match 3: TJ Iverson, Favid 56, Rusty Ranchero
Match 4: Rayjay2, MrCarpaltunnel, Tommyboy 99

Steve not at PAX Sunday?

That’s right! I didn’t make it to PAX on Sunday–I really wanted to but I just couldn’t go, and I have a good reason. I was in a State Tournament for Darts. Yes I said darts! And because I was having to miss the final day of PAX I felt that I had to do pretty good to make up for that. So how did I do, you ask?

Yep, I took First Place with my dart partner Harley Davidson (real name). We both received one of these, split a payout of $780 and we won a big trophy for the bar that sponsored us–Cloud 9 out of Kent, WA. So sorry I missed the last day of PAX but again it was for good reason.

XBL Radio’s, PiX from PAX

Ok, well I saw Trixie playing Zuma on the Xbox 360 and I had to snag this one up, so if you wanna see this and more, go ahead and follow my “PIX from PAX” link…

PIX from PAX

Castle Crashers Live PAX Video

Now I had a chance to play this game at PAX and it is so cool. It’s called Castle Crashers and The Behemoth is making this one. You might remember them, they made the critically acclaimed Alien Hominid (which btw is coming to the Xbox Live Acrade this Fall). But this game is awesome, the graphics were beautifully cell shaded and the animations were great, and a ton of action going on while your playing. This game will be co-op with up to 4 buddys playing with you and its coming out early 2007 so keep an eye out for this one, I can promise you that you won’t be dissapointed.

Check out my YouTube video for Castle Crashers!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTzrExo7kQM

-Steve519

Splinter Cell Double Agent Live PAX Footage

Alright, I have some very special Splinter Cell Double Agent in game footage that I recorded at PAX 2006. And for the game itself, I have two things to say, WOW! this is an awesome game and WOW! I wish there was a control schematic there so we could figure out the buttons. But that game is awesome, and the graphics, unbelievable. I just wish I had a better way getting this to you all so you see how great it really looks.

Alright now for the movies, I have 3 of them, all on YouTube so here you go

http://youtube.com/watch?v=nFpej3HsbsI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSQpQLhmfVk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQqWaMBdgeM

How the Industry is Busted and Whats Being Done to Fix It

Thats right its time for another PAX panel. This one has Kevin Bruner, Tell Tale games Chief Technical Officer, John Baez, The Behemoth Executive Producer and Steve Bocska, Hothead Games Joint Chief Executive all sit down to discuss the things wrong with the gaming industry and solustions to fix it.

Check it out here (right click, save as) btw the audio was done with my camera so its not perfect.

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Tell Tale Games CEO interviewed by Steve519

Dan Connors, the CEO of Tell Tale Games sits down with Steve519 and talks about Tell Tale Games, Sam and Max and more!!

Download the bristle 5 minute interview here (right click, save as)!