This was a fun show, Rusty and I sat down with some members of SBG Omega clan a brother clan of Lambclan to discuss what it is like to be in a clan, and talk about their clan in perticular. We also talk about some of the cool and not so cool stuff coming out of X06 and the TGS.

This weeks guests include: wyoming SBG | Hannibal SBG | REDEEMED SBG | NAMLOCO | WHATZUPWITHTAH

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For those with the Xbox Live Vision camera, you can download this game on Wednesday. The game is offered for FREE on Xbox Live Arcade, starting Wednesday, October 4 at 0800 GMT (1 am PDT).

When the ancient Ptolmec tribe simultaneously discovered gunpowder and barbeque, the explosive results scattered their musical totems across the jungle! Now Pterry the Pturtle must roll over mountains, cross islands, scale pyramids, and battle giant pinball games to retrieve the lost totems and bring music back to the party.

With high-definition graphics, Xbox Live Vision camera compatibility, Xbox Live Achievements and Leaderboards, this next-gen title provides hours of fun.

“TotemBall” includes multiple game modes including:

• TotemBall – Camera-controlled platforming gameplay – gamers control the characters in the game by moving their hands in the air and gesturing in front of the camera
• Juggling - Co-op juggling game with one player using Xbox Live Vision and the other player “juggling” totems with the controller
• Pinball - Play any of the bonus pinball tables that have been unlocked through regular TotemBall play
• Freeplay – Explore the game with no time pressure and infinite lives – great mode for kids
• Super Challenge – Play the entire game with one life and a time limit in each level
• TotemJam – Freely mix and match the game’s musical totems – another fun exploration game for kids from

From GamerScoreBlog.com.

Wow, is this what took so long? This was suppose to be out a few weeks ago on Sept 19? I will definanlty give this game a whirl, especially since it is free.

Wanna play Gears of War before everyone else? If you live in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago or San Francisco, you can have your chance. Microsoft is partnering up with New Line Cinema and together they are bring you GOW and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning. On Wednesday, Oct 4 if you are one of the lucky gamers that get to see the pre-release screening of Texas Chainsaw Massacre, right after the movie you will get you chance to play Gears of War. All you need to do is register online today at XBox.com or at TexasChainSawmovie.com for your chance to play the game and see the movie. And for those of you that don’t live in those 4 cities, I’m being told that you should check back at the Texas Chain Saw movie website for future events.

Wow, this is pretty cool, I just wished I lived in one of those cities so I could try this game out.

LISTEN TO THE PHONE CALL AUDIO!

Steve519 of the XBL Radio Podcast gets verbal confirmation from TigerDirect.com that his Paid-in-Full purchase of Gears of War for the Xbox 360 will ship in “3-4 days”. Steve Purchased the game on Sunday Sep 24, 2006, well over one month before the official release, “Emergence Day”: Nov 12, 2006.

Stay tuned here at XBLRadio.com to find out if Steve really gets the game in “3-4 days”.

-Rust.

BTW: Some of you haven’t noticed this, but I’m not planing on getting this game through tigerdirect, I’m 99% positive that I wont. But as a gamer I felt like I had to try because it just might be the biggest game of the holiday season, so if I could get it early I had to give it a shot. - Steve519

UPDATE: THIS ITEM IS NO LONGER AVAILABLE as per tigerdirect.com, but i do have this…

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As reported on Kotaku, Microsoft has owned up to all the faulty consoles that they were shipping. If you have bought a console with a manufacturer date before Jan 1, 2006, which would make your Xbox currently out of warranty, Microsoft will repair your console for free, thats right, free. And for those of you that have paid for a repair, Kotaku is reporting that you can get a refund for the repair amount. Wow, this is really cool to see, and its about time. Mine was one of those systems that would have been in this date. So if you have had any problems with your Xbox be sure to call MS up about this.

Shotgun Bunny, creator of XBLGlitchforums.com, talks with Steve519 about his website and lets us know what is going on over there and what you can except to see in the future.

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Alright everyone I recieved my Vision Camera today. I was going to do a video review for it, with everything from hook up to changing settings to video chatting BUT Major already beat me to it. So instead I will do a review for you and let you know some of the good and bad. Ok, to start off, this thing is the easiest to setup.

All you have to do is plug it in, thats it, nothing more. Once you do that your up and running. You can tell its working by looking at your dashboard background, you should see a watery type of effect, thats because its taking the what your camera see’s and applying it to your background all faded out and with special effects.

Now to do video chats, all you have to do there is look at the person you wanna video chat with and send them a video chat invite, its that easy. While in video chats, the bumbers change special effects, X goes to the options menu which will allow you to change the lighting and color settings, and the triggers vibrate the other persons controller. You can also select zoom which will allow you to zoom in on a section of the screen at you can pick up to 2x. And thats it for video chat.

To send pictures, all you have to do is select the person that you wanna send a picture to, you go to send message, take picture and from there you can zoom in and take a picture. After you take a picture it then will allow you add special effects. Once your done you can throw in voice, text or nothing at all and send out the picture. Again its that simple.

As for videos while in games, ie uno, spades ect. it seems on by default and so far you seem to be able to zoom in 4x in games (probably do to the smaller amount of screen space you have while in games)

Now for the bad stuff, no auto focus, so you have to manually get up off your ass and rotate the ring on the camera, that kind of sucks. If you wanna video chat, you have to end whatever game your in, you can not video chat in the background like you can do with audio chats, and that really sucks. Where is Totemball, it was suppose to be out of the 19th for those who have the camera but its not, I really wanted to try that. And last but not least, you can not save your pictures, I don’t know if this was overlooked or they just didn’t wany you to do this but this is not an option.
I do have to say the positives by far out weigh the minus and I would recommend to everyone I know, to pick one of these up, its a really cool addition to the Xbox 360. So if you get one and wanna video chat with someone, go ahead and see if I’m online, I would be happy to videochat with you.

-Steve519

And for those of you with kids, Major Nelson posted a Vision Camera post that involves the family settings that I think you really should look into to help protect your kids. Here is the link.

BTW, stay tuned to the XBLRadio.com website because we will be giving another one away shortly

I did a show last week with Godfree from GamerTagRadio, its another cool Xbox podcast, if you wanna check it out (which you should) here is the link http://www.gamertagradio.com/

And here are the show notes for this show: We are back with a new episode this week. The Gamertag Radio staff and our guest Steve from XBLRadio.com had the chance to have a roundtable discussion on Sony Online verse Xbox Live. What are our thoughts about the PS3 news & Viva Pinata is it worth or not to buy it this holiday season.

Listen to our Viva Pinata interview with Microsoft. They gave us a sneak preview of the game and more only on GTR!

Alright you can win an Xbox 360 Live Vision Camera for free. Its really simple, all you have to do is win a XBL Radio sponsored Texas Hold’em Tournament. It will start this up coming Saturday, continue Sunday, and then again next Saturday so as you see it will just go during the weekend. One round a day, starting at 5pm PST. So if you would like to enter, all you have to do is reply in the Xbl Radio FORUM post about this topic with your gamertag. Its that simple, be sure to read that post fully though because it has all the rules for the tournament. If you have any questions feel free to ask, you can ask here on this blog or you can email me at Steve@xblradio.com BUT don’t email me your gamertag, I want them all centerlized, that way I don’t lose anyone’s gamertag that wants to enter. So good luck to ya, and don’t forget to get our latest XBL Radio show buy clicking the “Get Our Podcast” link at the top of the page, because that is the reason why we are doing this contest, to inform new people about our awesome show.

And for those who didn’t see the forum link above here it is again

Godfree, from GamertagRadio, Chris-at the time representing Dreamstation.CC, currently with Microsoft-and XBL Radio’s MrCarpalTunnel, sit with Rusty and Steve to talk about the PodcastAwards.com website and discuss its legitimacy, what it takes to get nomitated and more. Here is the direct download link, click here.

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(*NOTE: This audio was recorded approx 1 month ago and before the voting period ended and the winners were determined. This conversation took place in spark of a post on the XBL Radio Blog on July 28, 2006. Rusty Ranchero is responsible for not getting this audio out sooner.)