July 30th, 2010
THIS SUMMER, LET SOMEONE ELSE PICK SAND OUT OF THEIR PRIVATES WHILE YOU PLAY FOR YOUR SHARE OF $100,000 IN CASH PRIZES.
- From July 6th – August 8th, Virgin Gaming is picking up the tab for a summer long of tournaments. Choose between Madden NFL 10, FIFA™ 10 and Halo 3 at a variety of skill Levels.
- Every game you win in daily and weekly qualifiers adds one token to your account. Track your token collecting progress on the Red Hot Summer leaderboard and aim to finish strong: the top 256 players for each game, each month will receive a cash bonus in recognition of their Red Hot gamesmanship.
- Looking for an even bigger prize? The top 128 of each game’s leaderboard will gain free entry to an end of month tournament in July and August. These special invite-only tournaments offer a none-too-shabby prize pool of $2,500.
- Daily and weekly tournaments will be available as free entry or $1 entry. So throw away that sunscreen, cancel your vacation and start planning your summer around the Red Hot Summer tournament calendar.
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Tags: Pro gaming, spam alert!
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July 29th, 2010
Join Steve, Dave, and Jon as they work the mic like vandals. Dave is (again) a PS3 owner, thus making the entire PixelVerdict Crew a bunch of namby-pamby fence sitting panzies who refuse to choose ONE side in the great World Console Wars. Dave rocks the DJ Hero (Renegade Version bitches! Fo’ Reals!), Jon plays some archaic fighting games, and Steve takes Kane and Lynch 2: Dog Days for a spin.
Random questions are the order of the day, as Steve, in celebration of the announcement of Street Fighter X Tekken asks for some “Ultimate Fighting game throwdowns”, and Dave wants to know about the cheapest bossfights in video game history, Damn you Heihachi Mishima!
Are you man enough to fight with me? Do you have a suggestion for the most ultimate fighting game showdown? Can you rock two turntables and a microphone? Why not Let us know in the comments below, over in the DVD Verdict Jury Room forums, or by emailing feedback@pixelverdict.com.
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Opening Music: “Your Touch” by The Black Keys
Closing Music: “500 Years” by Hardliner
Tags: Fighting Games, Kane and Lynch, King of Fighters 98, PS3, Street Fighter X Tekken
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July 22nd, 2010
After a week off for Summer Vacation, Steve, Jon, and Adam return, with speak of obscure WWE wrestlers from the 1990’s. Adam shares thoughts on Dragon Quest (Warrior!) IX, Jon is a generation behind with Dragon Quest (Warrior!) VIII and Steve finally puts Mass Effect 2 to bed.
After that we celebrate the banner year that was 2010 thus far by picking our favorite games of the first half of the year, which game we are most looking forward to in the second half, and which awesome game none of you ungrateful bastards bothered to play whilst you were busy with Mass Effect 2, Splinter Cell: Conviction, and Red Dead Redemption.
What was your favorite game of the first half of 2010? What are you anxiously awaiting for the rest of the year? What obscure gem do you think we should all be playing to while away the slow Summer months instead of going outside? Why not Let us know in the comments below, over in the DVD Verdict Jury Room forums, or by emailing feedback@pixelverdict.com.
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Opening Music: Overture by Koichi Sugiyama from “Dragon Quest VIII” bu Level 5/Square-Enix
Closing Music: Selbina by Naoshi Mizuta from “Final Fantasy XI” by Square-Enix
Tags: best of 2010, blast processing, dragon quest, dragon warrior, mass effect 2, Podcast
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July 8th, 2010
Let me be the first to say… “SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!”
Dragon Age 2 is official, you’ll see it in the first Quarter of 2011 (perhaps on Feb 2nd? hmm? hmmm?)
The first trailer will make its presence known on August 17th of 2010.
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Tags: Best RPG of 2009, Bioware, Dragon Age, EA games, PS3, Xbox360
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July 8th, 2010
In a world where your life is no longer your own…
Steve, Jon, Adam, and Erich, our Token American(patent pending) invite you to partake of our spirited discussion on the timely topic of internet privacy as it relates to Blizzards World of Warcraft and Starcraft II Internet Forums. Is it really that big of a thing that they’re making people use their real names?
But first, You must wander through the usual mire and muck of what we’ve been playing, what we’ve been buying but not playing, why Blast Processing has a restraining order against Mrs. Adam, what Erich thinks of OnLive and Alan Wake, Jon’s opinion of The Mega Man Zero Collection, and what awesome item Erich purchased last weekend! Hint: It is awesome!
We also celebrate the one and only holiday that’s all about Presidents who fly fighter planes and punching Aliens right in their stupid faces by waxing nostalgic about some of the great (and awful) games from Arcades past that have yet to appear in some form of home collection. There are also the usual offensive bits about female WoW players and Mac Gamers.
How do you feel about Blizzard’s new stance on anonymity? Did you read Jon’s Sin and Punishment review? Are you mad at Steve for his insensitive comments about women who play WoW? Why not let us know over in the DVD Verdict Jury Room forums, or by emailing at feedback@pixelverdict.com.
Opening Music: Celestial Hi-Fi by Sheavy
Closing Music: Into Town by Matt Uelman from “Diablo” by Blizzard Entertainment
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Tags: alan wake, arcade games, blast processing, blizzard, mac, mega man zero, online, steam, world of warcraft
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July 7th, 2010
The Charge:
The hair-trigger shooter game for the Wii is here!
Opening Statement:
Western gamers can be forgiven for scratching their heads and furrowing their brows when people bring up the original Sin and Punishment. A cult hit in the making, it made a slight blip on the radar in the dying days of the Nintendo 64, but languished in its native Japan, robbing western N64 owners of the chance to boast more great games on that system than can be counted on one hand. A decade has passed since Sin and Punishment was one of the most sought after import titles in all of gaming, and thanks to the title’s success on the Wii’s Virtual Console; Nintendo and Treasure have brought the sequel, Sin and Punishment: Star Successor across the vastness of the earth and into the twitching fingers of starving action gamers across North America. Once again, Treasure’s rule against developing sequels has been broken. The question is though, is it going to be worth it this time?
Tags: Shmup, Sin and Punishment, Star Successor, Treasure
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July 1st, 2010
Steve and Jon are left to their own devices this week – may God have mercy on your souls.
Steve really likes Singularity, which allows you to crank back time on a top secret island where the Red army conducted all kinds of spooky experiments. Jon is digging on Sin & Punishment: Star Successor, which is full of bizarre kids who may or may not be aliens, robots, or amnesiacs.
Both then share their thoughts on Transformers: War for Cybertron, before the rest of our show is devoted to the sobering past of Transformers videogames, and Steve again trashes major review sites.
What was Jon’s favorite Transformer? What exciting features await you in Transfomrers: Beast Wars: Transmetals for N64? How many Jetfires did Steve own? How many good games actually existed on the Nintendo 64? All this and more awaits you just beyond.
If only we could crank back time on this episode…
Did you dig the new Transformers game? Are you a dirty Commie like Steve? Let us know in the comments below, over in the DVD Verdict Jury Room forums, or by emailing at feedback@pixelverdict.com.
Opening Music: The Touch by Stan Bush
Closing Music: Dare by Stan Bush
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Tags: blast processing, sin & punishment, singularity, Transformers, war for cybertron
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June 29th, 2010
The Charge:
Your weapon is Choice!
Opening Statement:
From Sega, and developer of cult-RPGs, Obsidian Entertainment (Neverwinter Nights 2) comes a new take on the action RPG. Forget outer space and fantasy kingdoms; Alpha Protocol is the world’s first tactical espionage Role player. Will it manage to successfully infiltrate your collection? Or will you be disavowing any knowledge of its actions. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: alpha protocol, Bioware, Espionage, Obsidian, PS3, rpg, Xbox360
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