1 More week til Halo 3 Beta

Here is a video of some spectacular kills.

Madden Nation: The Reality Show

During lunch one day, I was flipping through the channels and I stopped at ESPN. I stopped flipping through channels, I started watching Madden Nation. I am a big fan of reality shows and a big fan of Madden NFL, so I set it to tivo ever time it came on. The show is full of early 20s douchebags that love to talk so much shit you might think they had eaten a cowpie, lol. Anyways, Season 3 is coming up, so, if you would like to try go get on the show, here is the link.

Some interesting questions are posed in the application:

What are you like while playing Madden?

I can answer that one. like a Douchebag.

What annoys you about other Madden Gamers?

They are douchebags.

Blue Dragon looks AWESOME

Thanks to kotaku.

MySims Wii: Pork Chop's best

Look at that screenshot, its like Pork Chop and me laughing at Piles. lol.

Guitar Hero II: 80's songs announced

via Kotaku.

# I Wanna Rock (by Twisted Sister)
# I Ran (by Flock of Seagulls)
# Round and Round (as made famous by Ratt)
# I Want Candy (as made famous by Bow Wow Wow)
# Metal Health (as made famous by Quiet Riot)
# Holy Diver (as made famous by Dio)
# Heat Of The Moment (as made famous by Asia)

Sweet. I would love to play all of those, except for Asia. Its like the one that doesn't belong.

BTW, Vinneeee related trivia. The first rock show attended was Ratt in 1988.

Sm City reinvented for the DS

Check out the part where you have to blow into the mic to put out a fire, and right after that, King Kong gets pwnt by you with the stylus.

Assload of new DLC in Crackdown.

Team Xbox as a first look at the 5!?!??! pages of DLC that will be soon available in Crackdown. You can read the novel here.

It includes:

• Bug fixes
• Cheat Mode
• More Vehicles
• New Weapons
• New Game Modes.

Crackdown was a very short game, and I am glad they are augmenting this fun to play title with a lot of DLC.

1up previews The Last Remnant

The recent Square-Enix game using Epic's Unreal engine is called "The Last Remnant". 1up posts a preview here.

While the framerate was occasionally choppy in areas, the game is still early in development, and yet, based on what was shown, quite accomplished-looking already, with gorgeous architecture and detail in the environments. Another scene in the aqueducts beneath the city were also slightly reminiscent of the sewer areas from Final Fantasy XII, but there is seemingly no relation between Last Remnant and the Final Fantasy continuity. The aqueduct level featured some nice, bump-mapped water effects, random treasure chests, and impressive detail in the rocky mountainside. Another area shown was an open plain, filled with creepy-looking monsters (large in size), cool lighting effects (sun shining through 3D clouds), and swirling dust effects. Hiroshi Takai, the game's director, then took to the podium, and explained that players would be able to use simple commands to control enormous amounts of characters at one time, introducing large-scale battles to RPGs. A sample battle revealed a lifebar to indicate the relative 'health' of the opposing armies (labeled 'allies' and 'enemies'). The success of character attacks seems to be based on timing, as onscreen button prompts (think quicktime events from Shenmue) compel the gamer to press the appropriate button. Depending on your skill, a different declaration fills the screen, like 'Rear Assault!' or 'Terminated!'

I like games that mix gaming genres. This one looks like it mixes FPS, RTS and RPG gaming elements. No release date yet, and it will only be available on the 360 and ps3.