It looks like this week the winner of the voting is GOW. And by a pretty good margin so we will be playing it once again. If you would like to join our awesome community of gamers just go here in our forums for the info of how to join us. We have a XBL Radio gaming night every Saturday night at 7pm pacific and 10pm eastern. Now I had one person ask me why GOW every week, so I figured I would address is here, we leave the voting up to you guys, the gamers. Its simple, whatever gets the most votes we will START off playing. That does not mean we will not play other things as well, but that just says we will start off playing that. Like tomorrow night, we will start off in GOW but we will probably get a little time in Rainbow Six or Burnout Revenge as well. So join us Saturday in our gaming night, it will be an awesome time with a bunch of causal gamers, (we are not hardcore, just a bunch of people trying to have a fun time). And mid next week, be sure to visit our forum to vote on next weeks game, especially if GOW isn’t your thing (I’m voting on GRAW and PGR next week).

So I hope to see you all there Saturday and maybe the weeks following that as well.

Steve from XBL Radio interviews Michael Glosecki, Senior Producer for Command on Conquer and he asks hims all the questions you wanted to know.� Find out about super weapons, online play, downloadable content, map editing, new factions, weapons and much more.

To download it you can either right click here (save target as), or you can subscribe to our XBL Radio Extra’s feed by clicking here.

Alright I have a site that you all have to check out. Its called 360friendspot.com. The reason I really like this site, is because unlike your Xbox blogger site that are out there this site keeps track of everything. I mean, time played in each games, time in your dashboard, time offline, all in simple bar graphs to show you. So if you have a minute and wanna check out an awesome up and coming website check out 360friendspot.com. Here is a pic of one of the things it shows you:

First off I just wanna wish everyone have a Happy Thanksgiving, since today today is Thanksgiving.� Now time for my post, I was not going to post anything today but something happened to me when I was trying out the new Xbox Live movie and TV download feature.� So yesterday I get home off of work, you know they first day of the video marketplace, and I happen to go online before I turn on my Xbox 360.� The first thing that I see that everyone seems to be having issues with the video downloads.� Some people are having issues with download speeds and others are having issues with the video downloads not completing and then the dashboard is popping up error messages.� I was a little discouraged because of this, granted it was the first day that we have had this option and Xbox Live is probably getting slammed but they have experienced this before so this should not be happening, but I ignore the issue and feel that I can not slam MS without trying it out myself.� It was already 11 at night and I had to be at work early tomorrow morning, yes I had to work today on Thanksgiving, so I decided to download a movie and let it go throughout the night so I can later do a review about the whole thing.� Now most of the movies that they had either sucked, or I already owned, or I have already seen, but V for Vendetta, which I have not seen yet and I actually did want to see it so I decided on this one.

Not only did I decide to download this one, but I decided to get the HD version because I wanted to see it in all its HD glory, all 6.07GB of it.� So like I was saying before, I picked V for Vendetta, right before I went to bed.� Now I get up the next day ready to watch it and what do I see? ERROR - Ah, shit.� Stupid ass piece of crap.� So it was on all last night, or so I thought, and it had an issue.� So I try again before I went to work, I restart the download.� And you know how when you restart your download it shows you how much it has done?� Well for it I had 2%, yes, only 2% done from all last night.� So again, I restart it and go to work.� Now I get back from work, turn my TV on and I figure it would be done minus any error and what do I see?� No error messages!!! Oh I feel good now, I go over to active downloads, 8% done.� What kind of crap is that?� I’m about 16 hours into downloading now and I have a whole 8% is it.� Right now I’m while I’m writing this story, I just reached 20 hours and I am at 19%.

Microsoft, if your reading, which I know you are because you have contacted me before about my stories, this is piss poor.� Seriously, this whole movie download service which is suppose to be like on demand really blows.� I could care less for excuses, I just want this fixed.� In my case I am spending big dollars to watch a movie in HD which is costing me more then if I just ordered it from Comcast through In Demand, and their service is a whole lot faster and easier.� I do not like to feel like I am getting screwed when I spend dollars at your marketplace but it seems that with all your retro releases, EA downloads, and now a broken in demand video service.

I know that the Xbox already has a good following, a lot of GREAT content but this is no time to drop the ball.� I do not know if you have noticed but there are 2 new systems out there now to compete with and if you wanna let them catch up keep doing what you have been doing lately but if you do want to succeed against them you need to fix these issues and fix them soon.

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Today is ‘Emergence Day’ in North America, and that means cool free ‘Gears’ Marketplace content is available today only for Xbox Live Gold and Silver members in Mexico, Canada and the U.S.

Name: Gears of War Emergence Day Gamer Picture
Price: Free
Available in: Canada, Mexico and the U.S.
Dash Details: One day only! Download the Exclusive Gears of War “I played on Emergence Day” Gamerpic.

Name: Gears of War Emergence Day Theme
Price: Free
Available in: Canada, Mexico and the U.S.
Dash Details: One day only! Download the Exclusive Gears of War “I played on Emergence Day” Theme.

This content is available until tonight at 11:59pm PT, so grab it while you can!
from MajorNelson.com

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I couldn’t resist taking this screen shot last night!� The� hype worked and rightfully so.� I have not spoken to anyone� who said this game has not lived up to it yet.� Nice score for Epic and Microsoft.

CLICK IMAGE FOR FULL SIZE!� (If your browser resizes the image…� Rollover it and click the popup icon on the bottom right of the image after you rollover it.)

Friends List of Xbox Live gamer Rusty Ranchero.
-Rust.

Peter Moore was on stage at the Showcase event in New York City, and just announced a partnership with CBS, MTV Networks, Paramount Pictures, Turner Broadcasting, UFC, and Warner Bros Home Entertainment to digitally deliver high-def (or SD) TV shows and Movies to Xbox Live Marketplace.� � The service goes live on November 22, and by the end of the year, we’ll have� more than 1,000 hours of content to download to own or rent.

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Some examples of content that will be available on the network by the end of year include:

• “Robot Chicken” and “Aqua Teen Hunger Force” from Adult Swim
• “CSI,” “Survivor” and “Star Trek” from CBS
• Emmy and Peabody Award-Winning “South Park” and “Chappelle’s Show” from COMEDY CENTRAL
• “The Real World” and “Pimp My Ride” from MTV
• “Avatar: The Last Airbender” and ”SpongeBob SquarePants” from Nickelodeon
• “Skyland” and “The Nicktoons Network Animation Festival” from Nicktoons Network
• “Nacho Libre” and “Jackass: The Movie” from Paramount Pictures
• “Carpocalypse” and “Raising the Roofs” from Spike TV
• “Race Rewind” provided by NASCAR.COM
• Select episodes of the original season of “The Ultimate Fighter” reality series and the “UFC: All Access” shows from the UFC
• “Breaking Bonaduce” and “Hogan Knows Best” from VH1
• “The Matrix,” “Superman Returns” and “Batman Forever” from Warner Bros. Home Entertainment

You� can access Xbox Live Marketplace with a free Xbox Live Silver subscription and a broadband connection. For more information about the content available on Xbox Live Marketplace visit www.xbox.com/marketplaceentertainment.� More detail can be found in the press release we just issued.

From GamerScoreBlog.com

Microtransactions or: Death by a thousand paper cuts. Sure, it all seemed so innocent at first, but then we started having Oblivion horse armor, Kameo Uno decks and now EA’s Need for Speed: Carbon shows up exploiting the system to its full and most disgusting potential — oh wait, EA already did that charging for Madden tutorials. And how many are willing to pay and feed this exploitation?

A group of writers at GamerFeast created a microtransaction tracker and started keeping tabs. Guess who’s the top offender? (Find out in the list below) They’ve also broken everything down in spreadsheet� form to review with a fine tooth comb, if you wish. It’s a great resource and know we’ll be checking back in again soon.� The top 10 (MSRP + Content as of 11-3-2006):

1. Need for Speed Carbon - $94.97 - Electronic Arts
2. The Godfather - $90.79 - Electronic Arts
3. Chromehounds - $83.73 - Sega
4. Tiger Woods 07 - $74.23 - Electronic Arts
5. Oblivion - $74.11 - Bethesda
6. LotR - Battle for Middle Earth II - $68.74 - Electronic Arts
7. Prey - $59.99 - 2K Games
8. Call of Duty 2 - $54.98 - Activision
9. Lego Star Wars II - $52.49 - Lucas Arts/TT Games
10. Kameo - $39.99 - Microsoft

found at www.joystiq.com

We’ll be the judge of that.
Bring it on.
-Rust.

A couple of weeks ago Microsoft announced a bus tour that kicked off in New York and would travel around the US to 19 other cities.� If you didn’t catch our story on it, or� Xbox.com’s official artical, then continue� reading for a brief rundown and the link to our interview.

Microsoft was doing this because they wanted to educate parents on some of the valuable tools that Microsoft has made available, on the Xbox 360� and the PC, that would help parents protect young kids.� To me, this was a great idea! So I contacted MS to get some more info and they warmley accepted my invitation.� � Now since� I don’t have any children, I took it upon myself to do this� for friends and listeners� of XBL Radio� who do have kids.

So I want to share with you the entire interview that I� had with Molly O’Donnell from Microsoft.� She’s the head of the Xbox Public Relations Group. � We talked about the Parental Controls for the Xbox 360 and the 20 City Campaign Buss Tour.� I hope you find� this 16 minute audio� very informative like I did.

Download Here (right click, save as… for best download experience.)

BTW, ultimately I think that it is the parents responsibility to monitor what their kids are doing online.� But, I think that it’s cool� how Microsoft is providing parents with tools to help protect their kids along with information and education� about how to do so.

And if you have any further questions about this or about protecting your children on Xbox Live, you can contact me at Steve@xblradio.com or check out Microsoft’s website set up for this http://www.xbox.com/isyourfamilyset/.