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So,..... I am sure you guys have seen the post on the front page where Arron (BIGVIP) calls out K Rock for their Madden match. They have played before but due to technical problems haven’t finished a game.....

When it goes down I will cover it via podcast live giving the play by play and interview them both.....

Who do you think is going to win?

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Match Date & Time: When K man's up and gets back from Peru.

More details to come.....

Bungie teases the future of Halo 3 at Edge Awards

After teasing a new game and then pulling back at E3 while hinting at major changes to Halo 3 on its community site Bungie.net, Bungie is back in the spotlight with more hints on the future.

In its video acceptance speech for winning an Edge Award for Interactive Innovation, Bungie talks about working on a new project and then closes with the line "Wait a second, there is no way we're showing this yet." The video then zooms out to show what appears to be a map editor. Perhaps a full map editor is on the way for Halo 3? Watch the video to draw your own conclusions.
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The Godfather II First Look

In most crime games, you're never given a chance to fully control the fate of your organization. Even though you work your way up from a low level soldier to a leader, your moves and the growth of your organization is somewhat rigidly tied to linear story features. The same can be said of the opposition to your maneuvers by rivals, who will only react to you and your activities only after you've committed something significant. As a result, you never get a sense of being a true crime lord who has to deal with the consequences of your actions nor do you feel like you have to watch your back because your enemies will attack you where they feel you're weakest. EA is hoping to change this lack of control with its upcoming release of The Godfather II, a game that lets you run the family business with a mix of action and strategy.
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Xbox 360 Lags Behind Sony, Nintendo

The Xbox 360 hovered near the bottom of the U.S. videogame platform sales heap for the month of July, selling 204,800 units compared to 224,900 by its closest current-gen rival, the PlayStation 3, according to data released by the NPD group today.

Microsoft's console sold more units than the PlayStation 2, but all other tracked systems outsold the 360 for the second month running. As usual, the biggest winner was Nintendo, which continues to sell systems at an astonishing rate. Here's a full breakdown of platform sales in the month of July, according to NPD figures:

1. Nintendo DS: 608,427
2. Wii: 555,012
3. PlayStation 3: 224,900
4. PlayStation Portable: 221,651
5. Xbox 360: 204,752
6. PlayStation 2: 155,510

With more than 1 million collective hardware units sold in July, Nintendo nearly doubled the collective sales of Sony and outsold Microsoft by more than 950,000 units.

It's a walk off people,..... it's gonna be a walk off

OOF! Someone just got called out..........

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My Dear Friend Krock:

It is that time of the year again son. That special time of the year where we both fire up Madden and we settle who is the champion of the gridiron. I know it gets hot down there in Miami, but expect it to heat up a little bit more this year when I roll out the Seahawks to challenge your Miami Fish. Oh yeah, that is right, you don’t play with the home team, you like the Jets, LOL. That’s cool bro, play whatever team you want, the result will be the same. Maybe this year EA will add a rivalry achievement for losing to the same guy over and over and over. It would be a honor to help you unlock that as I run up and down the field on you. At least you got lucky with EA adding the day 1 roster update, but even Favre cannot make-up for your weak skills.

Oh yeah, great timing of planning a two week vacation to Peru right when Madden launches. Hope you are having a blast partying down there, don’t worry I am not practicing at all, just making turkey sandwiches up here in Seattle.

You know where you should hang out sometime? The end zone, yeah it’s awesome, I go there all the time! J

See you on LIVE,

Aaron “BIGVIP”

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P.S. I am going to crush you like the velvet on your daddy’s wedding tux.

K Rock's Trip

Just wanted to give everyone a heads up that I'll be gone for a few weeks. I'll be in Peru studying abroad from Aug 11 - Aug 22nd. Then I get back and leave for PAX on the 28th of Aug. While I'm away Rodder will be running the show and site. You can reach him @ RodderXP@SquadXP.com and he'll get back to you with whatever you need. If you email me, I'll get it eventually when I set down to check my email when I have some downtime.

Take care and be safe, I leave this as proof that I have been playing the past week.

K Rock XP

Conquest added to Bad Company this week

Expected to go live this Thursday, August 7th is a new multiplayer game mode for Battlefield: Bad Company called Conquest. A game mode that was first seen and made popular back in Battlefield: 1942. In Conquest, players capture and control flags where, once a flag is captured, that team has the ability to spawn soldiers from. Oh, and the Conquest update will be free, so have no Microsoft point worries.

We'll see you on the Conquest battlefield, soldier.

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Are You Smarter Than A 5th Grader? is XBLA bound

Jeff Foxworthy fanboys (if there are any) listen up! THQ just announced that Mr. Foxworthy's trivia gameshow Are You Smarter Than A 5th Grader? (AYSTA5G? for short) will be makings its way to the XBLA. Creepy game graphics aside (seriously, Cameron looks like one of the Children of the Corn) and on paper, AYSTA5G? doesn't sound too bad with features including online and local play and over 6,000 question spread across 21 categories. Yeah, the XBLA rendition of AYSTA5G? looks to be true to the gameshow and how it's played. For good or bad.

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Gears 2 lets mommy filter out blood and swearing

Even with a very adult "Mature" rating, Microsoft has confirmed that Gears of War 2 will include the option to filter out both the game's extreme violence and foul language. A system that's very similar to the original Gears' that filtered out gore, but a bit different.

According to What They Play, they've been informed by Microsoft that the Gears 2 violence filter "turns the blood into sparks," and the language filter in turn "takes out all the swear words." Sparks replacing blood? No manly Gears swearing? Doesn't sound much like Gears to us, but if it makes parents feel comfortable enough to let their eleven year old children experience the Gears universe then we're okay with it. Whoa, whoa ... wait a second ...

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Avatars only to be used in family friendly games

As Microsoft figures out their game plan for how they're going to implement Avatars into the Xbox 360 community beginning this Fall, we're receiving a steady trickle of news surrounding their Avatar decisions. Most recently, Microsoft's Eric Kilgore confirmed with Develop that Avatars will only be allowed to be used in ESRB rated E10+ games which are seen as non-violent, family friendly games. So, we won't be seeing Avatars taking over our Gears or GTAIV worlds which, admittedly, is okily okay with us. Kilgore did say that their E10+ Avatar policy could change in the future depending on how things work out, but again, Microsoft's Avatar game plan has yet to be fully fleshed out.

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