Crackdown exposed! XBL Radio was invited to the Crackdown Community Event hosted by Microsoft! Steve519 got the 411 on the whole event with photos and video. Steve explains what he saw and what he wasn’t supposed to see!

On the roundtable catch Panicstruck, SMOKE U FOOLS, SilentCypher and BUCKFUSH187

Topics include
Crackdown: Demo impressions.
Forza 2, initial impressions and Lost Planet, why aren’t you playing it?
Devil May Cry on 360 and what is the definition of “Ex-clu-sive”?
10 new games on XBLA: Are they worth the wait?
Girls get paid to game! Why not guys?
YAY or NAY® with the entire March 360 Line-up! Pro Evolution Soccer, Crackdown, Bullet Witch, NBA Street, Dance Dance Revolution, Samari Warriors…

Show Wrap-Up Discussion
You can be on LIVE on LIVE…
KSI Roundtable next show, hopefully 5 lovely ladies of KSI!
Steve and Rusty briefly talk about the SuperBowl?
The Crackdown Community Event hosted by Microsoft in Seattle-Steve talks all about it. Find out who he met, what he played and how many gallons of beer consumed!
Lost Planet Signed Copy WINNER Announced! Find out who won the autographed game by Executive Producer, Keiji Inafune.
Catch a snippit interview with Craig Evans, Senior Global Product Manager, about Crack Down. And find out how to get the whole 15 minute interview!
New Giveaway Contest of Fusion Frenzy 2 announcement! Answer a simple trivia question. (Details below)

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Gamers from all over the world talk about gaming. 4 guests representing Canada, Australia and Mexico sign on to 1 Xbox Live gaming lobby to share their cultural perspective and clear up the stereo types! Also hear them talk about the Xbox Live service, most anticipated games and the cost differences of being a gamer from another country.

LIVE on LIVE guests are dualityshift, Innertia, Nocebo X and xMYSTERIO619x!

Topics include

Show Wrap-Up Discussion

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And now what you all have been waiting for, the easiest contest ever… The Lost Planet Giveaway! You can win a signed copy of Lost Planet thats autographed by none other then Keiji Inafune himself.

To enter, just digg here, and digg here

Next Tuesday (1-30-2007) Steve519 will go over EVERYONE that has their name listed under “who dugg this” on BOTH links above and they will all be entered to win. The winner will be chosen through a random drawing and then announced on podcast 36.5 (publishing Feb. 6, 2007). Good luck to all.

BTW make sure you� digg both to enter!� � Some of you have missed one or the other and I want all of you to have a chance.

EDIT:� IMPORTANT UNO GIVEAWAY UPDATE.� The gamertag you need to message the correct answer to� is “Goze211″.� I said it wrong on the show, it is NOT Goez211.� Sorry for any confusion.

Special Christmas Show featuring your hosts and thats it. Sorry guys, no guests on this one, or wait! Is there?

Topics include

What a great treat for your free time during the holidays!

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What is the EXACT Score from “One-to-Ten” did GUI J’s son, Joey, give this game on our latest “Kids Pick”?

The winner will get a free copy of Viva Piñata and a hug from steve519.� Send me or carpal an email and we will take all the right answers and pull the winner out of a hat.

Email your correct answers to…
Carpal@xblradio.com� or TheOtherGuy@xblradio.com.
IN THE SUBJECT LINE…
Put “Viva Piniata Giveaway” or your answer may get overlooked.

Good luck.

To win, you have to register! Registration starts on December 11, 2006 and ends December 22, 2006. You only have to register once and you are covered for both games. Once you are registered, start competing since you have two chances to win. Compete in both challenges or just one, it is your choice. If you are one of the best, then you can win a great set of prizes.

Lumines! Live Challenge: December 17 - 23, 2006
Small Arms Challenge: December 24 - 30, 2006

Prizes

Lumines! Live Challenge

• Grand Prize: A Hitachi UltraVision 42” Plasma HDTV.
• Four Runner Up Prizes: A Holiday Challenge Prize Pak including: A HD-DVD bundle and a Wireless Bundle (Wheel, headset).
• 100 Additional Prizes: 500 MS Points Tokens to be redeemed for Xbox Live imagery.

Small Arms Challenge

• Grand Prize: A Hitachi UltraVision 42” Plasma HDTV.
• Four Runner Up Prizes: A Holiday Challenge Prize Pak including: A HD-DVD bundle and a Wireless Bundle (Wheel, headset).
• 100 Additional Prizes: A Small Arms Theme/GamerPic and 100 MS Points Tokens to be redeemed for Xbox Live imagery.

Sounds fun, but I wish they were more specific about what exactly are the conditions for winning. Are they just gonna pick random gamers, like they did with the Gears of War Emergence Day Challenge? Perhaps the point here is to buy the games, register and cross your fingers. Either way, I’ll be playing a lot of Small Arms for the 24th to the 30th. You can keep Lumines.

-Rust.

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

What’s that? XBL Radio is giving away a free Xbox 360 vision camera? Yep that’s right, XBL Radio is giving away a free vision camera to the winner of the XBL Radio Texas Hold’em Tournament. Next Tuesday, Sept 12 ONLY on the podcast, we will give out the “secret” password to enter the tournament. The tournament will go down Sunday, Sept 17 at 7 PST and it will continue ALL day until we have a winner. So first then, if you are unable to make it, please don’t enter it only to be fair to those that can make it, but don’t let that stop you from listening in to the XBL Radio show.

Here are the rules/setup:

It will be in multiplayer, tournament game, player match, create match, $50/$100 blinds, and all assigned seats set at private.

If you’re not there, sorry but you’re not in the tournament, I have to be fair to all others.

The last 2 players remaining on the table at the end will advance to the NEXT table the very SAME day.

You must check XBLRadio.com for updates on this tournament, last tournament I tried to message all the contestants about this but Xbox live has limitations so I am not going through that again, its up to YOU to find out who you play.

You must let me know if you wanna be in the tournament by Friday, Sept 15 at midnight PST so I can have the first matches up by Saturday evening.

And finally, I don’t care who hosts or starts up the room, but you must use the options I listed above and the last 2 players standing must message me about who won or I won’t know and you won’t advance. I must have the winners in my inbox or on the forums as soon as the match is over.

I will post the matches here in the XBL Radio forums� (brand new by the way!).

And an absolutely huge thanks goes out to Tony from Microsoft and Xbox Live for hooking up XBL Radio with the Vision Cams.

If you have any questions, feel free to email me at Steve@xblradio.com

(all rules are subject to change so make sure your checking out the site)

DON’T FORGET:� You must listen to XBL Radio Podcast v26.0 (available Tue 9-12-2006) to get the “secret password” to enter the tournament.

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

Alright the bracket is made, 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 one thing that I am sorry for is that I couldn’t set the groups the way I wanted to, with day players and night players, but since you don’t have to pay to play oh well I guess, I did do what I could. So with that in mind NOT everyone is going to show, thats to be expected, and again sorry, I was limited to programing restrictions. 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 first 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 next round probably Monday. If you have any more questions feel free to email me at Steve@xblradio.com

And here is the bracket

and if that doesn’t work here is a direct link�

Remember YOU are playing for 1600 MS points

Hunt as a pack or die like a dog! Assemble the ultimate mech team together for some chrome-colliding action and massive machine battles in our very first $1,000 Chromehounds™ (Xbox 360) tournament! Think your team has what it takes to win the $700 grand prize? Then register and prepare for war!

In DOGS OF WAR, 20 five-player teams will have the chance to compete for the top prize and bragging rights as the best Chromehound pack on GameSpot. Every round will pit two teams against each other in a do-or-die battle, so will your squad dominate or become a bunch of chrome-plated coffins?

And as always, we’ll broadcast the Finals live on GameSpot Tournament TV! You’ll get to see your favorite GameSpot editors and special guests provide commentary on the face-off, as well as interviews with some of the top players.

TOG OUT!