X103 here, sorry it took so long to get to this...

We did our podcast on day 1 of Comic-Con in San Diego, so naturally, we only got half of the news to you at that point. Well, here is the other half.

Alright, the first one was announced the day after the podcast and is extremely relevant to my interests. The new Force Unleashed DLC that was hinted at by an achievements list leak was confirmed. Titled "Ultimate Sith". The kind-of twist is that the full content will only be available on a special edition disk coming out this holiday. Consisting of two more levels (the disk exclusive is Hoth, and third being the already released Jedi Jemple) the pack will deliver a skewed timeline story containing Starkiller as Palpatine's apprentice and he will hunt down Luke and Obi-Wan as well as skirmish with Boba Fett.

In other Comic-Con news... http://kotaku.com/5323169/comic+con-cosplay-stories This Wonder Woman is HOT. That is all.

Dead Space is getting a movie green-light as well as verbal announcements (unknown of outside-the-dev-team confusion) of work being done on not only Dead Space 2, but Dead Space 3 as well.

Forza 3 has a release date. October 27 for NA, October 23 for AUS/NZ, October 3 for Europe.

The All Fronts/Dark Corners pack for Gears of War 2 is out and it brings with it one new single player mission (tucked between chapters 4-2 and 4-3) and if you get the All Fronts pack, you get all the multiplayer maps to date. Not too bad for $20 considering the collective cost of the map packs.

http://kotaku.com/5325022/bayonetta-box-art-has-a-big-full-moon The Bayonetta cover art has been revealed and it touts a whopping three guns, two moons, one body, one celestial body, a title and it stil has room for that XBox360 band. Simply amazing!

Apparently, there is a new Disney game in the mix too, and no, its not Hannah Montana. It is code named "Epic Mickey" and its supposed to be a mickey steampunk-infused game. http://kotaku.com/5325334/spectors-epic-mickey-is-for-the-wii Looks nice though...

Oh! Interesting savings(?) alert! From Microsoft, if you buy all 5 games from the Summer of Arcade run ('Splosion Man, Marvel Vs Capcom 2, TMNT: Turtles in Time Reshelled, Trials HD and Shadow Complex) you will get 800 points re-redeemed to your account, which basically gives you all 5 games, but 'Splosion Man free! Woo! [[[[UPDATE!!]]] Ubisoft revealed earlier today that they will be lowering the price of TMNT: Turtles in Time Reshelled from 1200MSP ($15) to 800MSP ($10) bringing the point total of all Summer of Arcade titles to only 5200, minus the 800 back deal, all games will be yours for now 4600MSP. That's a savings (now) of an arcade game and a half with all 5 purchased, making this deal a little more valid.

Unfortunately, there is a ton of small news abroad between this last week and today, but yeah, these are the big movers and shakers! Later days!

X103 yet again!
So, its 9:07 PM EST and here are our latest numbers!

MajiShine's channel has a total of 34,569 views and 265 favorites!
My channel has a total of 15,736 views and 107 favorites!
The Fury X's channel has a total of 10,050 views (GRATS!) and 76 favorites!
WutzATonTon's channel has a total of 2,668 views and 28 favorites!

Those numbers stated, The Rebel Rouser Network has a collective JTV pageview count of 63,023! Our collective favorite count is 476! Thanks to everyone in supporting us thus far!

X103 here!

Providing all goes as expected, be sure to tune in tonight!

Podcast #5 will be recorded LIVE! on our channels broadcasting at the time.

Hey all,

Wow, its been a while since I last blogged on this thing. I was reading some of the older posts on the Rebel Rouser Network blog and noticed that TonTon [Anthony] posted a list of his games. I think I shall do the same!

So I can't locate my dreamcast... I'd like to hook it up and play those old games, but I don't recall where I put it. Anywho...

X103 here again!

Not too much news has come about since the last blog post, sadly. Luckily, I have managed to scrap together enough info to make a good post! YAY!

Okay, the big story first. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (Yes, they tacked the CoD monkier back on) is to have three release packs. The first two, standard and "Hardened" (See "Collector's Edition"), were known already and had the standard price points of $59.99 and $69.99. Now there will be a third pack named "Prestige". This over-the-top pack contains an art book, steel book case for the disk, a token code to download the original CoD on XBLA and working night vision goggles... yes, that is correct. All this can be yours for "only" $149!

Red Faction: Guerilla is coming to the PC on Sept 15th, but the bigger news for the Volition title is that it is to have three batches of DLC. The first, titled "Demons of the Badlands" is set to release on August 13th for the standard price of 800 MSP or $9.99 on PSN.

Meanwhile, the newest stuff from Rock Band states that they are establishing a service in-game to allow artists and bands to release their own tracks in the game, getting %30 of sales the titles get from being downloaded. Think Xbox Community Games meets Rock Band.

The Wii has recieved a firmware update (4.1), but the only thing it fixes is a bug for the upcoming title Wii Sports Resort.

As for other DLC news, Star Wars: The Force Unleashed and Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen are both set to recieve a new batch of goodness. The Force Unleashed is coming in the shape of a new mission, but details are mum still. Transformers will get three new multiplayer maps, 10 new bots and a new difficulty level.

As for our side of things, Maji has recently completed GTAIV, much to his chagrin... The Fury X played more Xenogears before both of them joined WutzaTonTon in a rousing online game of Forza 2, which I shall enter soon. Meanwhile, on my side, I recently completed a lot of runs I'd started awhile back, including Mirror's Edge Hard Mode, Resident Evil 5 Professional Mode and Ghostbusters Professional mode. I also finally acheived 1 million points in Geometry Wars, go me!

That's about it for now, so enjoy the broadcasts!
Laterz!

I want to give a HUGE thank you to everyone that watched my channel last night. I am totally humbled at how the turn out was this evening.

And to celebrate my hitting 200+ Fans, I'm going to plan out a bit of a gaming marathon for Thursday and Friday. I'm not sure what I'll play yet, maybe I'll do a complete play thru of Condemned 2, not sure though quite yet.

Again though, thank you all so much!

Incoming transmission from RR X103 Headquarters

Okay, wow.... upon completing my beginning-of-the-day reading of Kotaku, I now have (not counting this one) 6 tabs open, that's a lot. So without further ado, let's get started...

----The Headliner----
=Okay, I'm calling this the big one for today since I am fairly certain that it will affect most of our fanbase. Assume from it what you will, I personally think its going to be used for polish time, which will be good for a game of this calibur... Okay, you guys ready? Sitting? K? Good.... Bioshock 2 has been officially delayed "until fiscal year 2010". Past that, no date anymore.

---Major Stories---
=First on the docket is something that has almost no impact on me, but who would i be to deny it because of that? The story comes out of good ol' Bethesda Softworks. The Fallout 3 developers have decided to delay and rearrange the DLC release schedule for the PS3 version of the post-apocalyptic hit. In the interview, Bethesda is saying they hope to have it by "the end of September". The rearrangement brings some good news through, as the release schedule still seems to be frequent and steady, once started. The first release is the level-cap-raising Broken Steel. Afterward, Operation: Anchorage will release with Bethesda planning to get The Pitt out alongside it. Later on in the schedule is the two newest DLC's, Point Lookout and the yet-to-be-released Mothership Zeta.

---In Other News---
=Apparently, a few days ago, someone leaked some concept art of a possible reboot of the Tomb Raider series. This has today been confirmed as authentic art from Crystal Dynamics, with them saying it has been released without their permission.

=No More Heroes, the cult hit on the Nintendo Wii, might move on to different platforms after the sequel, NMH2: Desperate Struggle, drops in early 2010. Goichi Suda said this, "I think ['No More Heroes 2'] is the last ‘NMH' that is going to be developed on the Wii. To expand ‘NMH' to new possibilities, we need a new platform. Wii is a great platform, but we've done everything we can with it now."

=Xbox Live's Deal of the Week has changed today, and a good one this week for those who love Bullet Hell shooters, or just really good, fun, but frusterating, beautiful looking games. That's right, Ikaruga (originally on the Gamecube, but later ported to XBLA) is now only 400MSP (50% off 800MSP original price) for Gold Members. Get on it, masochists!

---Reviews---
Alright, since I recently got this game, I am posting review spots for it, but I will not shirk off other games in this spot because I don't get them. That said... today's Review section is on BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger on the 360 and PS3. Earlier today, Kotaku released their site review on BlazBlue, hailing its colorful cast, beautiful art and design, lag-free online, multiple modes and the inclusion of a spectator option online as well as shortcut commands for the trickier moves in the game. The only cons posted were unassisted learning curve and the possibility of too much going on at once.

I personally agree with all of those statements, but do not let the cons throw you off at all. As with every fighter, there is a difficulty changer and a tutorial mode, you just aren't required to use them. The game, plain out, looks beautiful. It plays and handles wonderfully, even without an arcade stick. I woud easily call this one a buy, and I'm not even big on the fighting game genre.

Other reviews for BlazBlue are as follows:
TeamXbox gave it an 8.8 out of 10. IGN, a 9.4/10. 1UP gave it an A. OXM gave it an 8/10 and Game Informer gave it the lowest rounded score of the bunch with 7.75/10.

---Weather---
Orlando: Mostly clear with a 100% chance of awesome.
Minneapolis area: Possible cloud cover, chance of later day storms. Higher chance of ass-whoopery.
Southern California: Uber-clear with a high chance of a double-teamed cousin takedown.


Sources:
Bioshock 2 delay- http://kotaku.com/5313745/bioshock-2-delayed-to-fy-2010?skyline=true&s=x

Fallout 3 PS3 DLC delay- http://kotaku.com/5313512/ps3s-fallout-3-content-pushed-back-to-sept-reordered

Tomb Raider reboot leak- http://kotaku.com/5313447/looks-like-that-tomb-raider-reboot-is-real

No More Heroes story- http://kotaku.com/5313452/no-more-no-more-heroes-for-the-wii

Ikaruga Deal story- http://kotaku.com/5313446/its-a-good-week-to-buy-ikaruga

BlazBlue Kotaku review- http://kotaku.com/5313114/blazblue-calamity-trigger-review-rebel-yell?skyline=true&s=x

All other review scores obtained here- http://www.gamespot.com/xbox360/action/blazbluecalamitytrigger/review.html?mode=web&tag=scoresummary;critic-score

X103 Reporting...

Alright, now then... since I forgot to add some news yesterday, I will put it in this post today.

As spoken of on our 4th podcast (released in downloadable form soon EDIT: Podcast 004: Double Your Pleasure is available now at www.rebelrouserpodcast.blogspot.com) there was a 4 minute long video of new Mass Effect 2 info depicting new info about the missions, brief and vague story touch-ons and an analysis on the mission shown at E3. Great stuff, be sure to watch it when you have 4 minutes to spare.

(Until I can learn to locate and embed things, I'll post the source link :D) http://kotaku.com/5311555/lots-of-new-mass-effect-2-footage

And as read yesterday, TMNT: Turtles in Time Reshelled for the XBLA has been bumped back in the Summer of Arcade line-up for the more... not Turtles... game Splosion Man. TMNT loses the July 22nd date to Splosion Man and has now recieved the later release date of August 5th.

http://kotaku.com/5312000/tmnt-turtles-in-time-re+make-knocked-back-by-splosion-man


Now, for the goings on. As for myself, I am off of work tomorrow (July 13th), so as a result, tonight's and tomorrow's broadcasts will be a little longer than normal due to the extra time available for such things (barring sudden changes in plans). As for Maji, Fury and TonTon, look for more of the same unless something new is brought to my or your attention.

Maji is currently knee deep in ectoplasmic goodness as he nears the end of Ghostbusters.
Fury is currently turning back the clock to rock some Xenogears on his side.
Sadly, TonTon is still trying to overcome Xbox Live connection issues and has yet to have anything consistent for his feed going just yet, but keep hopeful and faithful!

That should be it, but stay tuned just in case!
Peace!

Alright! X103 here!
As per the new arrangement to better bring you, the viewers, our services, I will be doing my best to maintain the blog side of things!

This will include, but not limit to:
-The big movers and shakers in gaming news!
-What the plans among the RR offices are for the time being!
-Announcements for upcoming podcasts, broadcasts, updates to our forums or youtube account or otherwise!
-EXPLOSIONS!
-Edge of your seat ACTION!
-llamas.
-and lastly, any type of info I or the others that make this Maniacal Foursome deem need-to-know-worthy!

So, hopefully this will run smoothly and we plan to see you on the other side!
Oh, yeah... I plan on making references in my posts as much as possible.

Later days! Time to broadcast!

TonTon here!

Just a little reminder, that as usual this week, the Podcast will be recorded LIVE on our Justin.tv channels.