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My friends over at XBLRadio have released episode 54 of their podcast.  I was away this weekend so I asked one of the other great staff members of 3fs to do the friendspot spot.  So make sure you head on over, check out Ant on the Friendspot Spot - and let him know how he did

SHOW HIGHLIGHTS:

NEWS:

• The newest trend in music downloading; Pay what you want!

CONSOLE CRIMES:

• Apple gets sued for price dropping.  This may make Wal-Mart rethink their “Falling-Prices” campaign.

GAME NEWS:

• The Wii recasts a new fishing sim. Perhaps they are angling for a new kind of gamer. Hope they can TACKLE it.

GAME REVIEWS:   

• The Orange Box: Rusty Ranchero gives us the scoop on Valve’s Half Life Bundle. Is 5 games enough to justify the transition to the 360? Or is Portal enough of a selling point? 
• Hour of Victory vs. Medal of Honor Airborne: Carpal once again tries to “Save Ryan’s Privates” as he enlists for two terms of active duty. Which one will he re-enlist for? 
• Drawn to Life (DS): Alex gets creative with KID PIX as he draws a conclusion on why this DS title is worth picking up.

PLUS: 

• The 360 FriendSpot SPOT 
• Useless Tips
• The Marketplace Minute. 

head on over to XBLRadio to check it out

The boys at XBLRadio released another .0 show today, and yours truly is there with your regular ‘friendspot spot’.  Here is a  recap from the RSS feed, for some reason I dont see it on the main blogcast page - but the show is out now

News

• HALO 3 breaks sales records, and a few discs.
• Activision makes a Bizarre purchase.
• Microsoft to get it’s own space on the web 2.0.

GAME NEWS:

• Mario and Sonic games revealed for the Wii Olympics. Sonic to bring the rings…
• Kane and Lynch release date announced.
• Think: “Reservoir Thugs.” -Wii announces that it’s newest Mario title will be a SMASH for online play. 

GAME REVIEW:

• HALO 3: It’s finally here and TOG and Carpal give you their opinions on how the game was received. The Maps, the co-op, the story and more. So armor-up and get ready for an in-depth look at HALO3. Is the fight finished?

PLUS

• Squidpunch gives us the 360friendspot “SPOT”
• Useless Tips -And a special (SPOILER ALERT) discussion about the HALO 3 in the out-takes. It’s almost a whole other podcast; but we felt we needed to get it off our chests. So get ready to hear Rusty, Carpal, and TOG talk candidly and unedited about the biggest game release to date.

Download the Episode here

That’s right folks, I did not attend PAX 2007 - but was able to make it to Kielbasa Fest 2007.  I might not have been lucky enough to see all those cool up and coming games and rub elbows with all those other great xbox community sites owner and podcaster - but I did get to eat meat shoved into a casing and smoked. 

All joking aside looking back I am somewhat sad I didn’t take the trip to PAX this year - perhaps another year.  If you haven’t visited these sites all ready I would suggest you check out unscripted360 and XBLRadio, both friends of mine that DID attend PAX and giving you their take on the trip - if you want to know about Kielbasa fest however - I am your man!

Head on over and check the 100th Episode of XBLRadio - Great Job Guys!

http://xblradio.com/blogcast/?p=590

Well as some of you may or may not know - the guys at XBLRadio asked us to do a little spot on the .0 shows (which come out every other week).  I just finished recording the ‘friendspot spot’ and if there are no problems with it - it should be included on this tuesday’s episode of XBLRadio.

I am still getting used to this whole thing, and stutter an stammer a bit - but I think I got my mic issues sorted out at least - feel free to leave me some feedback on the blog here, or on 360friendspot, or even at XBLRadio, wondering what people think of the little segment we have going here…do you care?  do i sound like a fool?  etc etc.

Thanks to the guys at XBLRadio for letting 3fs have a running segment on the show!

Steve519 invited onto the .5 (Live on Live) version of the XBLRadio podcasts.  With a little bit of some technical issues, and the fact that apparently everything is ‘alot like Halo’, it should be interesting to see how the show turns out.  Rumor has it, the show will be available tomorrow.

 If I keep getting all this practice maybe I will actually have to start hosting my own person “squidcasts” here - but don’t hold your breath

The guys over at XBLRadio have an excellent charity event starting up.

So if your willing to donate, please feel free to send your donations to:

XBL Radio
Games for GI’s
PO Box 4382
Federal Way, WA 98063

If you want to include a thank you card or something with your donation I will be more then happy to pass this along. And everything received here will also go straight to the troops overseas.

head on over to check out the full story, and give what you can, I can’t think of a more deserving bunch at this time.

http://xblradio.com/blogcast/?p=448

Episode number 42 of XBLRadio is out, I have a small spot on it interviewed about 3FS.  Everyone go tell ZaaM how good his english is, so he can join the fun of podcast interviews

Check out the show, the guys over at XBLRadio are great community guys that offer a variety of video and audio podcasts.  I personally subscribe to all the podcasts that they offer and listen to them as soon as they are released.

well I just finished up a chat with one of the boys over at XBLRadio, if you dont listen to their podcast, I would suggest checking it out - they are a nice bunch of community guys with a bunch of different podcasts - a video podcast, an xbox live roundtable (for gamers just like you) and a standard news type deal.

I am not promoting it just because I am interviewed on it, because well I generally think I sound like a tool on these type of things. But I do subscribe to their podcasts, and since I just finished the discussion with them, it made me think to mention them to you guys.

I am not sure when the interview will be up, and lucky for me, it was no where near as long as the one with deacon over at unscripted [:D]