Topics Include: Raptr interview with Dennis Fong! MK vs. DC character list revealed! Guitar Hero World Tour set list has been released! Burnout Update! DLC codenamed “Davis” launches this week! Ensemble Studios closing! Videos of Gamestop screwing us! Make A Wish auction for a Xbox 360 that has custom Halo 3 artwork and signatures from the Dev team! Plus a special XBLRadio announcement! All this and more! Thanks for listening, Please leave us a comment on the show or send us an e-mail at: xblradio@platformnation.com
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For all you music enthusiasts and video game rockers, this Friday (September 12, 2008) will be a monumental first for both the gaming and music industries. Metallica’s ninth album, Death Magnetic, will be available as downloadable content for Activision’s Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock, and you will also be able to pick up the album at your local music store. Also included with this DLC is two renditions of “Suicide & Redemption” that has extended solos by James Hetfield and Kirk Hammett. But don’t let what you read totally impress you because the best has yet to be told. For all you rockers that will be picking up Guitar Hero World Tour, this DLC album is forward compatible. Meaning, all you have to do is pick up Guitar Hero World Tour and the album will seamlessly integrate with the game when it is released this October at no extra charge.
Harmonix and MTV Games have created a very special set of downloadable content to celebrate the three day event called Penny Arcade Expo. The “PAX 2008 Collection”, which should be up today, contains tracks from Jonathan Coulton, MC Frontalot, and The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets - all of whom performed at the event last weekend. And to add to the excitement, all proceeds from the sales of this “PAX Pack” between launch and Holiday 2008 will be donated to the Child’s Play Charity that is ran by Penny Arcade.
The songs that will be available individually and as a pack are “Skullcrusher Mountain” by Jonathan Coulton, “Livin’ on the Corner of Dude and Catastrophe” by MC Frontalot, and “Shhh….” by Darkest of the Hillside Thickets. Individual song prices are .99¢ (80 Microsoft Points for Xbox 360) per track, or $2.99 (240 Microsoft Points for Xbox 360) for the 3 pack. All of these songs are the original master recordings. These songs should be available today to purchase for Rock Band on the Xbox360, and for PS3 owners, these tracks will be available on Thursday, September 4, 2008.
Well its hard to believe that another summer is almost over. With younger gamers on there way back to school next week its good news for the older gamers. Either young or old if you’ve been participating in Microsoft’s Summer of Arcade you have been playing some of the greatest games, available in retail or digital download, that have been released in a very, very long time.
Starting with Geometry Wars Retro Evolved 2 it was clear XBLA was going to be firing on all cylinders. You still here stories of people trying to be “top 6 of my all friends” or “trying to get the wax-off achievement in an act in insanity” and will for a long time.
Round 2 was, arguable, a bigger hit then Geo Wars 2. Braid sparked a lot of controversy with its high price but in the end it seems the gameplay is going to win out and make this platformer a must own.
Round 3, The Greatest Day in Gaming History, was not just a remake of a NES classic, but a complete redo with huge improvements. Bionic Commando: Rearmed turned into an instant classic that if you have not bought, do so NOW! Yes we could use the better d-pad but practice in the more then 60 challenge rooms will have you swinging like it was 1988 all over again.
Round 4… Well they could not all be stellar games and we all knew that one out of the five would be on the bottom. Its the nature of gaming and Galaga Legions was feed to the meat grinder. While it will find its niche will previous Galaga gamers it is by far the least anticipated game in the Summer of Arcade.
Then we get to this week. The final week in the Summer of Arcade (although summer still has 3+ weeks left) sees another highly anticipated title released. Having been played at the last two PAX’s, by our own Steve519, it appears Castle Crashers may be the best of all. Why? Impressions below!
Well the last three rounds of Microsoft’s Summer of Arcade were heavyweights the likes of which we will never see again!
With Geomtry Wars Retro Evolved 2, Braid and Bionic Commando: Rearmed, released respecativly over the past three weeks, straight knock out buys; and with Castle Crashers looming next week (for 1200 MS Points) is the developers who made “Gaming History” with Pac-Man Championship Edition enough to revive, yet another, classic ’80s coin-op arcade shooter?
Well the countdown reached 0 and the day was finally here!
It started as any other Wednesday. Might have gotten up a little earlier then normal, but just a little bit…
Why you ask?
Well I ask: is this your first visit to XBLRadio.com? If it is welcome! You picked a good day to stop by. If its not though then you know why I sound so excited! That’s right, today is the “day to end all days”!
And that’s what they call a “tease”! So check out “the rest of the story” and start jumping for joy with me!
As you can see Bionic Commando: Rearmed is almost here! I’m getting as “giddy as a school gir” in anticipation of this title! Over the last couple weeks Capcom has been releasing the making of videos to show us how they redesigned and made BCR! Yesterday the third and final “making of” video was released and is below. Please check out all three videos (links below) and lets us know if you are planning on picking up this, soon to be, classic XBLA Title.
XBLRadio will be giving away a copy of Bionic Commando: Rearmed on Wednesday as part of our continued support of the “Summer of Arcade”. Look for the BCR post to be up VERY early in the morning, leave a comment in that post, and be entered to win you own copy of Bionic Command: Rearmed!
The Fable 2 Pub Games are also announced for release on Wednesday and XBLRadio will be giving away a free copy of those as well on Wednesday!
So keep checking back for you chance to win BCR and/or Fable 2 Pub Games!
With such a stellar entry last week, Geometry Wars 2, in to the Xbox Live Arcade Library I am eagerly awaiting this morning’s release of:
If you all remember this is one of the titles to have the price leaked out a couple weeks ago. At the time it was rumored Braid would cost 1200 MS Points ($15 USD). But wait! Microsoft soon came out to squash this rumor and state that this would not be the price for Briad (See wrap up of all stories here on Xbox360Fanboy).
Well guess who *umm* “mis-spoke”? And guess what the price of Braid is? Is it worth 1200 MS Points ($15)?
“The end level is f**king ingenious.” according to Gamer Hate
But continue on for XBLRadio’s Quick Impressions of this “time bending puzzler”,
For details on how YOU CAN WIN your own copy of Briad,
And stay tuned for a full XBLRadio Review Upcoming!…
Its been stated, and rightfully so, that I am in love with Bionic Commando Rearmed! Well with the previous “Behind the Scene’s” Video and the below, newly release, video; its not hard to see why.
Come Wednesday, August 13th, 2008 @ 0200 PST you will see me playing this game, up till its time to go to work. Then once off work I will be back on the couch and back at it.
Check out latest “making of video” below and let me know if you will be picking up Bionic Commando Rearmed here or @ xblradio@platformnation.com and lets get some Co-Op in ASAP!
Raptr interview with Dennis Fong!
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