Archive for July, 2006

Cool New VS. gamer cards!

Friday, July 28th, 2006

Check out these cool new “VS.” gamer cards!

You can get these at http://www.livecard.net

Maybe I should have put Carpal vs. Steve??

-Rust.

XBL Radio Free Giveaway!!

Thursday, July 27th, 2006

Would you like a Xbox 360 Bracelet? Well your in luck, all you have to do is comment anywhere on our page from August 1st to August 5th. Its that easy, and on August 5th XBL Radio will be picking one random person that commented on our page and they will win this free XBox 360 Bracelet, and just so you know, it wasn’t always free, Microsoft and Bestbuy are selling them and all procedes go to the Boys and Girls Clubs of America. So not only will you show your support for XBL Radio but you will also be showing support for the Boys and Girls Club. And while your commenting on our page be sure to download the newest XBL Radio podcast, which is jam packed full of videogame news. The link for that is on the top right side of the main page. www.xblradio.com
Good Luck,

Steve519

Splinter Cell Double Agent Pushed Backed

Thursday, July 27th, 2006

Sam Fisher
Well it looks like Sam Fisher will have to wait before he goes Rouge. Ubisoft confirmed that the latest title in the Splinter Cells will be pushed back until late October. This will be the highly anticipated good guy goes bad version of Splinter Cell. So if you have played the other 4 games in the series you will now get the chance to see what its like on the other side.

In Fisher’s newest roll you conduct mission underwater amid churning ice flows,in blinding sandstorms,or even engulfed with dust and smoke. I think we will see Fisher take care of his dirty work in place like LA, New York, and all over the globe. So stay tuned and when we get more info we will send it your way.To find out where I got this info just go to http://splintercell.us.ubi.com/doubleagent/home.html

Xbox EXCLUSIVES

  • 3 players on each side in Spy vs. Spy mode
  • Enhanced Graphics (Soft Bodies, Normal Mapping…)
  • Camouflage suit gadget

Splinter Cell Xbox 360 Multiplayer: Build Your Career as a Secret Agent

Adversarial Mode : Spy or Protect to have your team on top (3 spies vs. 3 mercenaries): Work your way up as an Echelon Spy or Upsilon Mercenary, improving your skills, inventory, and team ranking.

  • Infiltrate is the easy part only the bests can extract!: A top notch spy must also learn to leave a place without being caught, using Spectacular Escape Moves
  • Protect and Destroy: The Upsilon Forces strength completed with dangerous drones are lethal enemies for the Spies.
  • Learn, Improve, Master, Teach: The Challenge Mode allows you to improve as a team against bots, and the best players can teach successful tactics as mentors
  • Team Ranking, Team Building and Team Progression: a lone agent is never safe. Build your team, Improve with it : your team results make your ranking.

D.04

Learn how to smack talk on XBL

Wednesday, July 26th, 2006

hear is a video that will help teach you how to do it probably

click here

MONSTER HOUSE: The Summer of CGI continues…

Wednesday, July 26th, 2006

XBL Radio on: Monster House

The movie was shown in the new Disney 3D format. I can tell you it was beautiful to behold. This year, it seems as if every other film is a CGI movie. What makes Monster House different is the way most of us can relate to being young and curious. Most CGI fanfare has CGI characters like green orgres, talking lions, and clown fish. Monster House is reminiscent of last years Polar Express.(Many of the same team worked on Monster House)

This film was a little intense for small children. However if your kids are like mine, where MI3 and War of the Worlds were fun, then this film should be fine. The only thing about this film that denies it a “Thumb-Up” is the feeling that what happens on-screen is not plausible. Even with such CGI films as Shrek, Madagascar, and Finding Nemo, we are in their world. We accept the reality of what we are shown on-screen. With Monster House, feeling so life-like, the imagination of the CGI kids should have run wild. Instead the script runs out-of-control; and we are along for the ride.

MPAA: Rated PG for scary images and sequences, thematic elements, some crude humor and brief language.

runtime: 91 min

MONSTER HOUSE the game now available on:

PS2, Nintendo Gamecube, GBA and Nintendo DS

Lumines Live! in Action

Tuesday, July 25th, 2006

Here is a gameplay video of Lumines Live which is coming to the Xbox Live arcade in the coming months. But be warned it will costs you 15 dollars to buy if you want the game which is a little to pricey for me, especially when I think what I games I can get for 15 dollars on the xbox live arcade.

Steve519

Download: [Lumines Live! Gameplay Video]

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Exploring Elveon

Tuesday, July 25th, 2006

We cover the length and breadth of Naon, and submit to you our findings

Elveon is a title that gamers have kind of ignored, for whatever reason, maybe because it’s not Gears of War, or Mass Effect, or Lost Planet, however, having seen the game in action behind closed doors at E3, we can tell you here and now that Elveon could very well be something quite special when it hits next year.

We’ve pooled our resources here at QJ to come up with every scrap of info we have on the game in order to present this glimpse into 10tacle Studios Epic Elvish action RPG.

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GALAGA (Download the DEMO WEDNESDAY!)

Tuesday, July 25th, 2006

It’s nastalga time again. Log onto live on Wednesday and get the Galaga game. If your like me you’ll remember the “BONUS STAGE”. Good luck and try for a PERFECT 40!
The only thing that would be truely “PERFECT” is if MS Arcade realeases a true-arcade. Give us a bundle of 5 or more games for one set price. This “get one a week” makes it seem as if they are buying time with those gamers who are demanding titles.

Truth be known, I wouldn’t purchase GALAGA, PAC-MAN, or Frogger for 5 bucks if it was in a bargain bin at my local WAL-MART. Why are we settling for it online? Is it a lack of games? Or is it impulse buying? Either way MS Arcade is making money off thier Arcade Garage-Sale and we don’t even get to haggle over the price…

CARPAL OUT!

You thought the price of the Horse armor was bad!

Monday, July 24th, 2006

EA alongside with ESPN will offer a pay per view event on the latest edition of its Madden NFL franchise. So all you hardcore Madden fans if you want to see how the game was put together for $19.95 you can get an inside look and a behind the scenes of EA Tiburon studios, and through all the new features. This 60 min show will debut August 4 on ESPN.com and on television. For more info on this and to read the original articles go to http://www.gamespot.com/news/6154552.html

TOG

Live on Live 22.5 is out!

Monday, July 24th, 2006

Well it’s ready for you to download. That’s right 22.5 is complete and Will be out first thing Tuesday morning so got to your favorite pod place and get the special round table hosted by TOG and Carpal. We talk about what each console brings to the table and what each one is lacking. Also find out which games are exclusive to each console. Going us on the round table will be K Rock from Squad XP, Kevin from Go Nintendo, and Gavin from PS3 Countdown. So find out what they like and don’t like about each console. And don’t forget that we will bring you ver. 23 where we review NCAA 2007 and Rusty gives us a special review on CH. Take care and play game safe.

http://www.xblpodcast.com/media/podcast/XBLIVE22.5.mp3

TOG