Hey Got Gamers,

If you haven’t heard yet, Microsoft has rebuilt the Xbox360 controller to include a D-Pad that is more responsive. However, why should I steal the thunder from Major Nelson? In this video that we found on youtube, Major Nelson explains the changes to their controller.

Thanks to Major Nelson and Microsoft for making and hosting that video on youtube. A picture may speak a 1000 words, but sometimes video is still needed.

Hey Got Gamers,

I hope everyone had a great time at the FAN EXPO this weekend. However, if you were like me (and were to busy with work to go), or if you just want to relive some great moments, take a second to check out the photos that Zack took from the convention’s floor.

And once you’re done looking at those photos, you can click the audio file below this sentence to hear the post-broadcast podcast for Got Game’s August 28th 2010 show.

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This week on Got Game we discuss:

• Canadian Defense Minister Peter MacKay verbally bashing Medal of Honour
• THQ’s stance against the sale of used games
• Hackers stealing Halo REACH from Microsoft in a way that only Ocean’s 11 could pull off
• Plus we talk Spider-Man Shattered Dimensions with Beenox studios‘ Level Designer Mario Notaro

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And on top of all of that we have a review of Mafia 2

Hey Got Gamers,

This week’s show ended up being a Xbox360-centric episode. That’s because this week we spent a lot of time talking about our trip to Micosoft’s X’10 event, and the many motion control games (like Kinect Adventures, Kinect Sports, and even Kinect Joy Ride) that we tried there.

On top of that, we had a chance to check out a number of the major titles coming out for the Xbox360 this holiday season; but to hear our opinions of those games, you’ll have to listen to this week’s post-broadcast podcast (in the audio file below this sentence).

[audio:http://pmd.fan590.com/podcasts/got_game/gg20100822.mp3]

This week on Got Game the crew gives their thoughts on:

• The Kinect Controller and the tons of games that they saw at the X’10 event
• News regarding FIFA 11 allow gamers to play a new position
• Mass Effect 2 going to the PlayStation 3
• New details regarding the modes you’ll find in the upcoming Killzone 3
• Rare redesigning the Xbox Live Avatars
• And the Rock Band 3 and Guitar Hero Warriors of Rock song lists (you can find the song lists for both games at the bottom of this page)

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Plus we have our review of Kane and Lynch 2

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Here are the 93-songs you can expect to ship with Guitar Hero Warriors of Rock:

• A Perfect Circle – “The Outsider”
• Aerosmith – “Cryin’”
• AFI – “Dancing Through Sunday”
• Alice Cooper – “No More Mr. Nice Guy”
• Alter Bridge – “Ties That Bind”
• Anberlin – “The Feel Good Drag”
• Anthrax – “Indians”
• Arch Enemy – “Nemesis”
• Atreyu – “Ravenous”
• Avenged Sevenfold – “Bat Country”
• Bad Brains – “Re-Ignition (Live)”
• Band Of Skulls – “I Know What I Am”
• Black Sabbath – “Children Of The Grave”
• Blind Melon – “Tones Of Home”
• Blue Öyster Cult – “Burnin’ For You”
• Bush – “Machinehead”
• Buzzcocks – “What Do I Get?”
• Children Of Bodom – “If You Want Peace… Prepare For War”
• Creedence Clearwater Revival – “Fortunate Son”
• The Cure – “Fascination Street”
• Deep Purple – “Burn”
• Def Leppard – “Pour Some Sugar On Me (Live)”
• Dethklok – “Bloodlines”
• The Dillinger Escape Plan – “Setting Fire To Sleeping Giants”
• Dire Straits – “Money For Nothing”
• DragonForce – “Fury of the Storm”
• Drowning Pool – “Bodies”
• Edgar Winter– “Free Ride”
• Fall Out Boy – “Dance, Dance”
• Five Finger Death Punch – “Hard To See”
• Flyleaf – “Again”
• Foo Fighters – “No Way Back”
• Foreigner – “Feels Like The First Time”
• George Thorogood and The Destroyers – “Move It On Over (Live)”
• The Hives – “Tick Tick Boom”
• Interpol – “Slow Hands”
• Jane’s Addiction – “Been Caught Stealing”
• Jethro Tull – “Aqualung”
• John 5 – “Black Widow Of La Porte”
• KISS – “Love Gun”
• Linkin Park – “Bleed It Out”
• Lynyrd Skynyrd – “Call Me The Breeze (Live)”
• Megadeth – “Sudden Death”
• Megadeth – “Holy Wars… The Punishment Due”
• Megadeth – “This Day We Fight!”
• Metallica & Ozzy Osbourne – “Paranoid (Live)”
• Muse – “Uprising”
• My Chemical Romance – “I’m Not Okay (I Promise)”
• Neil Young – “Rockin’ In The Free World”
• Nickelback – “How You Remind Me”
• Night Ranger – “(You Can Still) Rock In America”
• Nine Inch Nails – “Wish”
• The Offspring – “Self Esteem”
• Orianthi – “Suffocated”
• Pantera – “I’m Broken”
• Phoenix – “Lasso”
• Poison – “Unskinny Bop”
• Queen – “Bohemian Rhapsody”
• Queensrÿche – “Jet City Woman”
• Rammstein – “Waidmanns Heil”
• The Ramones – “Theme From Spiderman”
• Red Rider – “Lunatic Fringe”
• R.E.M. – “Losing My Religion”
• Rise Against – “Savior”
• The Rolling Stones – “Stray Cat Blues”
• The Runaways – “Cherry Bomb”
• Rush – “2112 Pt. 1 – Overture”
• Rush – “2112 Pt. 2 – The Temples Of Syrinx”
• Rush – “2112 Pt. 3 – Discovery”
• Rush – “2112 Pt. 4 – Presentation”
• Rush – “2112 Pt. 5 – Oracle: The Dream”
• Rush – “2112 Pt. 6 – Soliloquy”
• Rush – “2112 Pt. 7 – Grand Finale”
• RX Bandits – “It’s Only Another Parsec…”
• Silversun Pickups – “There’s No Secrets This Year”
• Slash featuring Ian Astbury – “Ghost”
• Slayer – “Chemical Warfare”
• Slipknot – “Psychosocial”
• Snot – “Deadfall”
• Soundgarden – “Black Rain”
• Steve Vai – “Speeding” (Vault Version)
• Stone Temple Pilots – “Interstate Love Song”
• Strung Out – “Calling”
• Styx – “Renegade”
• Sum 41 – “Motivation”
• Tesla – “Modern Day Cowboy”
• Them Crooked Vultures – “Scumbag Blues”
• Third Eye Blind – “Graduate”
• Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers – “Listen To Her Heart”
• Twisted Sister – “We’re Not Gonna Take It”
• The Vines – “Get Free”
• The White Stripes – “Seven Nation Army”
• ZZ Top – “Sharp Dressed Man (Live)”

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Here are the 83 songs that were leaked via a youtube video of  Rock Band 3:

• Amy Winehouse – “Rehab”
• Anthrax – “Caught in a Mosh”
• At the Drive-In – “One Armed Scissor”
• Avenged Sevenfold – “Beast And The Harlot”
• The B-52s – “Rock Lobster”
• The Beach Boys – “Good Vibrations” (Live)
• Big Country – “In a Big Country”
• Blondie – “Heart of Glass”
• Bob Marley & The Wailers – “Get Up, Stand Up”
• The Bronx – “False Alarm”
• Chicago – “25 or 6 to 4″
• The Cure – “Just Like Heaven”
• David Bowie – “Space Oddity”
• Deep Purple – “Smoke on the Water”
• Def Leppard – “Foolin’”
• Devo – “Whip It”
• Dio – “Rainbow in the Dark”
• Dire Straits – “Walk of Life”
• The Doobie Brothers – “China Grove”
• The Doors – “Break On Through (To the Other Side)”
• Dover – “King George”
• Echo & the Bunnymen – “The Killing Moon”
• Elton John – “Saturday Night’s Alright for Fighting”
• Faith No More – “Midlife Crisis”
• Filter – “Hey Man, Nice Shot”
• The Flaming Lips – “Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots, Pt. 1″
• Foreigner – “Cold as Ice”
• Golden Earring – “Radar Love”
• HIM – “Killing Loneliness”
• Huey Lewis and the News – “The Power of Love”
• Hypernova – “Viva La Resistance”
• Ida Maria – “Oh My God”
• INXS – “Need You Tonight”
• The J. Geils Band – “Centerfold”
• James Brown – “I Got You (I Feel Good)”
• Jane’s Addiction – “Been Caught Stealing”
• The Jimi Hendrix Experience ˆ”Crosstown Traffic”
• Joan Jett and the Blackhearts – “I Love Rock ‘n Roll”
• John Lennon – “Imagine”
• Juanes – “Me Enamora”
• Lynyrd Skynyrd – “Free Bird”
• Maná – “Oye Mi Amor”
• Marilyn Manson – “The Beautiful People”
• Metric – “Combat Baby”
• The Muffs – “Outer Space”
• Night Ranger – “Sister Christian”
• Ozzy Osbourne – “Crazy Train”
• Paramore – “Misery Business”
• Phish – “Llama”
• Phoenix – “Lasso”
• The Police – “Don’t Stand So Close to Me”
• Poni Hoax – “Antibodies”
• Pretty Girls Make Graves – “Something Bigger, Something Brighter”
• Primus – “Jerry Was a Race Car Driver”
• Queen – “Bohemian Rhapsody”
• Queens of the Stone Age – “No One Knows”
• Rammstein – “Du Hast”
• Ramones – “I Wanna Be Sedated”
• Raveonettes – “Last Dance”
• Rilo Kiley – “Portions for Foxes”
• Riverboat Gamblers – “Don’t Bury Me… I’m Still Not Dead”
• Roxette – “The Look”
• Slipknot – “Before I Forget”
• Smash Mouth – “Walkin’ on the Sun”
• The Smiths – “Stop Me If You’ve Heard This One Before”
• The Sounds – “Living in America”
• Spacehog – “In the Meantime”
• Steve Miller Band – “Fly Like an Eagle”
• Stone Temple Pilots – “Plush”
• Swingin’ Utters – “This Bastard’s Life”
• T. Rex – “20th Century Boy”
• Tears for Fears – “Everybody Wants to Rule the World”
• Tegan and Sara – “The Con”
• Them Crooked Vultures – “Dead End Friends”
• Tokio Hotel – “Humanoid”
• Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers – “I Need to Know”
• The Vines – “Get Free”
• War – “Low Rider”
• Warren Zevon – “Werewolves of London”
• The White Stripes – “The Hardest Button to Button”
• Whitesnake – “Here I Go Again”
• The Who – “I Can See for Miles”
• Yes – “Roundabout”

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And finally here is the Sporcle quiz that that Momin mentioned in his parting shot.

This past Sunday morning, Momin was invited onto the FAN590′s Sport Central with Alex Seixeiro, to talk about the Medal of Honour Controversy. Here is their 15 minute long conversation regarding the world’s reaction to the Taliban being part of the new Medal of Honour game.

[audio:http://pmd.fan590.com/audio_on_demand/MOH-gg-20100822.mp3]

Alex and Momin also referenced a few news stories during their Medal of Honor discussion. Here is the story of British Defense Secretary Liam Fox, calling for Medal of Honor to be banned. Also, here is the story of a San Jose mother who feels that this game should be held back for a number of years until the wounds of the current war, and of losing her son during that war, heal a bit more.

Hey Got Gamers,

It’s time for this week’s Got Game show blog, so everyone follow Ken’s lead, and just dance.

And because I can’t think of anything that is more epic than the Dancing Ken image, let me simply say that here is the post-broadcast podcast of our August 14th show.

[audio:http://pmd.fan590.com/podcasts/got_game/gg_20100814.mp3]

This week on Got Game we discuss:

• Our hands on time with Sony’s new PlayStation Move controller
• The upcoming NHL11 demo
• More details regarding Micheal Jordon in NBA 2k11
• Bioshock Infinite
• And how Matthew Perry went from Friends to Fallout New Vegas (the Fallout part happened in the last minute or so of this clip)

Plus our reviews of:

Madden NFL 11

Scott Pilgrim vs the World: The Video Game

Need for Speed World

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And just like the Madden games, we have our very own curse. We’re forever cursed to have far to much content, and far to little time to cover the gaming industry, during our single hour. Therefore, we have some extra web-only content for you this week. First off, Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light is a downloadable title that comes out this Wednesday, August 18th. To give us an idea of what to expect, here is Calhoun’s chat with Forest Swartout Large, a producer working on Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light.

[audio:http://pmd.fan590.com/audio_on_demand/croft-gg-20100814.mp3]

Also, we took some pictures of ourselves during our hands on time with the PlayStation Move controller. Here are some of those images, including Zack wearing the new 3D goggles; and many images showing the emphasis on using the camera to create custom game avatars.

Hey Got Gamers,

I have a couple of awesome trailers I think that every gamer needs to see. The first is the trailer for the new Bioshock Infinite Game that we discussed on this weekend’s show.

The next is Playstation’s answer to the DSi title Photo-Dojo. I am not sure how fun it will be as a game, but it does seem to be a very impressive demonstration of how the console can utilize the Playstation Eye a little moreso.

Congratulations to Bryan T., winner of the Alan Wake DLC code.

Hey Got Gamers!

If you’re looking to win the Alan Wake DLC code that Calhoun is giving away, hurry and scroll to the bottom of this post. Everyone else should stay right here, because we have the post-broadcast-podcast version of this week’s Got Game, in the audio file below this sentence.

[audio:http://goo.gl/fb/Oi78i]

This week on Got Game we discuss:

• The EA Sports cover curse peeking its head out from the darkness as another cover athlete is out due to a knee injury
• How the recently confirmed Xbox360 and PS3 versions of NBA JAM will only be available as part of another game
• The huge Greathouse update that Natural Motion hopes will fix most of Backbreaker’s problems
• And we talk about the upcoming Madden game in our interview with Madden 11′s senior producer Phil Frazier

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This week we also played a clip from Calhoun’s interview with Virgin Gaming’s CEO Rob Segal; and like we said in this week’s show, you can hear that whole interview here.

Plus we have our reviews of Starcraft 2

And the new Alan Wake DLC: The Signal

Speaking of the new Alan Wake DLC, Calhoun promised to give away his code in this very show blog; so here are the rules that you need to follow to win:

1. Put you answer in the reply box at the bottom of this post (the box that looks like this).

2. Include your email so that we can email you the code if you win (emails will not be published).

3. Be the first person to answer the following trivia question. “IT’S A GAME!  ________!” is a famous, but partial Got Game quote that is missing 1 word. What is the missing word from this quote?

A clue to what the missing word is, can be found in the first 8 minutes of our 1 year anniversary show.

Hey Got Gamers!

Have you seen the new multiplayer trailer for Call of Duty: Black Ops yet? If not, here you go.

I am willing to admit that it’s far more interesting then I thought it would ever be. Despite the belief that Treyarch spends all their development time copying Infinity Ward, this trailer shows some new innovations like:

•  stationary camera that you can use to keep an eye on some section of the map while looking at another
• crossbows
• remote control cars with C4 on them

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Now let’s be honest with ourselves, that all AT LEAST sounds awesome. However, the whole world of Black Ops multiplayer, in this trailer specifically, looks really shiny. To shiny in my opinion; walls, stationary objects, weapons, and even people seem to have a strange reflective capability that concerns me for 2 reasons:

1. Having everything shiny isn’t that realistic, and while no one is going to claim that this franchise is realistic, there is no point in forcing the issue by making everything look like it was dipped in lacquer
2. But more importantly the last game I played that reflected light this much was Perfect Dark Zero, and I stopped playing that game rather quickly due to the fact that all the shiny surfaces hurt my eyes

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But in the end this is just a trailer after all. I have my concerns yes, but will hold final judgment until this game is released.