STEVE519 from LIVE on LIVE joins Carpal this week!

• NEWS: -Microsoft Brings TGS and X06 to Live (get ready to use that download feature) -Wii to Retail for $250, Ships Nov. 19 (The house of Mario is ready to jump) -Microsoft Repeats: No Internal HD-DVD Planned (however they have been known to do a 360) -Peter Jackson on the Halo Movie (his next film after his 15th release of the Rings trilogy)
• Game News: -Sony Launching PSP Entertainment Pack for the Holidays (Santa likes UMDs too) -Dead Rising Fans: No Patch For You (But hey why not buy a new t.v. to get it to work) -Fans Heard, as Nintendo Contacts Telltale (Sam and Max may be hitting the road to the 360)
• Plus Console Crimes -Jack Thompson is back and hes pointing that narrow minded finger again. All this and more on XBL Radio ver 27.0!

Game Reviews:

-Steve519 on Madden 07: Is it 1st and 10 for the franchise? Or is 07 all hype and huddles? -Carpal on Test Drive Unlimed You may run out of gas before you finish this game.

-TOG OUT!

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The first one was pure “SHOCK VIDEO”. So how were they going to top it. Well you have to give them an E for effort. JACKASS 2 is back, as if we would ever forget the 1st one, and the gang is reuinited once again. From the opening scene (a mock Running with the Bulls emulation) you know that this will be a train-wreck that you can’t stop watching. From complete gross-out scenes, to the usuall ball crushing, bruise inducing, body mangling stunts; Jackass 2 never lets up.

Johnny Knoxville and Co always seem to find a way to make me keep watching, even though I find myself cringing. I cant say this movie was “better” than the original. (the 1st installment had taken film to a new level) However, this film compliments your Jackass collection (if you have one) quite nicely with such scenes as: Snakes on a Ball-Pit, The Gas Chamber, a Beer-Enema, Terrorist-Taxi, and more…

In one scene a fellow Jackoff states, “Please no Jackass 3!” My gut instinct says he’s got a point. However if there is another, I would be a JACKASS not to go along for the ride!

-CARPAL

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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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Dreamhost finally flicked the switch and we are back on line!

FOR NOW you can ONLY get our MOST RECENT show on iTunes! Yes, iTunes is working! If you need any of our previous shows, you will have to direct download them until further notice. We are still working with web support to block the first XB Stream program that is still stealing up a lot of the bandwidth. I’m gonna publish a non RSS listing of our shows by Friday!

But please be patient, this crisis is almost over!

-Rust.

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

Our 5 Gamer chiX’s indlude Frantic PMS, QoC, GamergirlSB, Worried Weasel and Catalina PMS.

• This super packed show talks about Saints Row from the ladies perspective.
• Microsofts approach to women: Is there more they can do?
• Girl Exclusive Lobbys and Gamer Zones: Are they necessary?
• Why no WNBA or Womens World Cup Games?
• Fewer female characters in the latest game releases: Why?
• XBL Arcade titles or full CD titles? Which do they play more?
• This, and whatever else the conversation brings up!

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Shout out to Trixie for hooking us up with the wonderful Xbox gamerchiX. Come talk about the show in our forums.

A new program that hit the market recently has many podcast fans excited and ironicly has upset many podcasters.

XBStream is a free-ware program that allows you to stream audio and text xml based feeds to your Xbox 360 video game console.

This program comes pre-installed with many of your favorite Xbox related RSS feeds, including yours truely, XBL Radio along with GamerAndy and Gamertag Radio among the giants of 1up, IGN, OXM and Major Nelson.

The drawback is that once installed, the program defaults to auto download the THIRTY most recent items on EACH feed. After just a few hours of installation, your hard drive will be raided with up to 30 Gigs of blog entries and podcasts.

So why are the podcasters upset? Isn’t this great new publicity? Well… when thousands of people start downloading several dozen 20-40+ Megabyte files all at once, it tends to shut down servers. Our sever had over 42,000 hits with over 500 gigs of bandwith in less than 48 hours. We are currently out of commission.

We don’t know when we’ll be back up. We don’t know when XB Stream will fix this. We don’t know HOW XB Stream will fix this. There apprears to be no update feature on the program. How are we gonna tell the thousands of people who have already downloaded it to remove our feed? How are we gonna stop more people from downloading it? The XBLR Podcast Feed is F#$%ED untill further notice.

Check out what GamerAndy had to say about it! And some more interesting talk in the XBStream Forms.

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!