We are back with a huge GDC wrap up show, and KODxBOOMEY joins us after a three week absence as well as JForms joining us as a special guest as we go into what we’ve been playing, GDC announcements and coverage and reviews of The CLub, Dragon Quest Swords and JForms reviews Lost Odyssey. Here is a wrap up of Episode #7 . . . . .

Segment #1: What We’ve Been Playin’

KODxfactor: Lost Odyssey, Dragon Quest Swords, The Club, WOW

KODxBOOMEY: Rock Band, Call of Duty 4, Castlevania for DS

JForms: Lost Odyssey & Mario Kart 64!

Segment #2: GDC Coverage. . . . .

You can read all coverage by previous posts.

Segment #3:

GDC News . . .

Can be read in GDC Coverage Posts

Segment #4: Reviews:

The Club (XBox 360, PS3, & PC): 7/10 from KODxfactor

Dragon Quest: Swords (Wii): 6/10 from KODxfactor

Lost Odyssey (Xbox 360): 8/10 from KODxfactor & 8.5/10 from JForms

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Bionic Commando screens Released and Progress Report –

Bionic Commando will be appearing on the XBox 360 arcade, Playstation store and for DL for the PC. The PC and PS3 version will feature high res, and textures due to the fact that Microsoft will only allow 150 MB file size limits. The remake of the classic NES game will hit the Marketplace, PS Store and PC this spring.

GRAND THEFT AUTO IV SCREENS AND POSSIBLE STORY REVEALED –

I swear the more screens I see on this game the more and more I see Martin Scorsese’s work. Even though he’s not attached to this title, his influence is definetley there. Take a look for yourself.

Mass Effect coming to the PC this MAY, with better graphics and gameplay?? 

Bioware announced that they will be releasing Mass Effect to the PC this May with better graphics, improved Frame rates and improved gameplay. They also announced previously that Mass Effect 2 & 3 will be releasing simotaniousley on the 360 and PC when they are shipped.

Final Fantasy XIII’s Future and engine updates - -

Square Enix’s “White Engine,”now renamed the Crystal Tools, has been confirmed for work on platforms of PS3, XBox 360 and PC. Also they did announce that they will be using a dumbed down version of Crystal Tools for the Wii Platform. They also showed a trailer for FFXIII. They displayed some gameplay of the lighting effects and stunningly left everyone with a big WOW. They also attempted to quite the corss platform talk of this release, because at the end of the trailer there was a screen saying “Exclusively for the Playstation 3″. It remains to stay Exclusive, but my gut is telling me, not true.

Warhawk DLC coming, with a possible Single Player Mode? 

Operation Broken Mirror has been announced as a DLC package that will feature a new Vehicle, Battleground, and an APC that includes a new set of spawn points. As far as the single player goes “We made a strategic decision to go multiplayer only and I would be against doing a set of single-player expansion packs for Warhawk,” said the game director Dylan Jobe. Right now it has not been confirmed but it is nice to see that they are still supporting DLC for this Multiplayer game only for the PS3.

Star Wars: The Force Unleashed nearing completion and could be coming sooner than we believe - -

Star Wars: The Force Unleashed is nearing the polishing stages and bug testing, and was announced that aside from coming out in 2008, that game could ship in time for the summer . They are speculating now that SWFU will ship in late July, early August. New screens were shown at GDC but STILL THE NAME OF DARTH’s APPRETICE WAS NOT ANNOUNCED!!!

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2/20/08 –

What a great second day and MASSIVE third day at GDC this year. Probably one of the biggest stories to come was . . .

EPIC STUDIOS AND MICROSOFT ANNOUNCED “GEARS OF WAR 2″ FOR THE XBOX 360, SLATED TO HIT SHELVES NOVEMBER 2008!!!

Today during the presentation of their Unreal 3 Engine, Epic studios closed out with Lead Designer Cliffy B running to the stage with a chainsaw with the coverart and release date for Gears of War 2! to follow that up they had an all CG trailer between Marcus and a Locust soldier. If the trailer is any indication to new moves in Gears 2 then it looks to be very very promising. Marcus and the Locust engage in a chainsaw struggle that will eventually lead to Marcus flipping his Chainsaw upside down and cutting the Locust upwards instead of Downward. I am still a little sceptical of the November release date but DAMNIT IF I WONT BE HAPPY IF THIS SHIPS IN TIME!!!!

NINJA GAIDEN 2 GETS A STREET DATE!

After month of specualation, screen shots, and videos, GDC 08′ brought on another surprise announcement out of Microsofts key notes. Ninja Gaiden 2 will be releasing in the US on June 3, 2008. The long awaited sequel will have our summer engrossed with an already packed summer, but I do think however that this is a good releases to comete with Sony’s Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriot.

NEW MMO GAME BLUE MARS SCREENS WERE RELEASED!!

FABLE 2 CO OP VIDS. AND COMBAT CONTROLS SHOWN AND A POSSIBLE RELEASE DATE!

Microsoft and Lionhead studios, in the wake of their key notes showed a co op demonstration for Fable 2. Apparently anyone can pick up a controller and join in, at any time through the game , and anywhere. The player can play as long as he/she pleases from 5 minutes to 5 hours if they wish, and not interupt game play. If this feature is online remains to be seen, but he did say however that a lot more about the environment and game features at this years E3 but for the most part they are tenative to have the game ship in time for Christmas.

Wii FIT HAS BEEN ANNOUNCED, STREET DATED, AND PRICED!!!

for all you Yoga and work out fans your wait to get your hands on the Wii Fit motion board and software are coming much sooner than you think. May 19th you will be able to go through tons of mini games and workout regiments to help you get into shape. SO yes all you fat slobs that like to sit on your ass and do nothing, this game is for you! The game will price at $89.99 and will be available bundled only.

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February 18, 2008 — BANJO KAZOOIE COMING LATE 08′

In an announcement by Rareware Studios during GDC, they announced that Banjoe Kazooie 3 is still on the releases schedule for fall of 2008. A CG trailer was up for show as well as confirmation that Crank will be making his return to the franchise as well as a cast of more characters not seen before in the series. The game has been hush hush since 2006 until now, in the funny annoucement trailer presented at GDC. Be looking for Banjo in late 2008 on the XBox 360!

FRONTLINES GETS 50 PLAYER MULTIPLAYER–

KAOS Studios have confirmed that, with regards to multiplayer on the Xbox 360 version of Frontlines: Fuel of War, they will be offering player caps of up to 50 on some US dedicated servers. The official cap for the Xbox 360 version was previously 32 players. The PC version supports 64 players.” This is the highest allowed amount of single players on any XBox live game and could be a mess if the servers are not functioning right, but are said to function just right. To achieve this goal was beyond fantastic and we applaud the efforts, lets just hope the game is good enough to actually 50 players to play with on one server.

N+ MAKES IT’S WAY TO THE XBLA THIS WEDNESDAY!!!!

The Japanese popular game N+, also slated to have an DS version release soon, will be making its mark on the list of XBLA games. The good news is we don’t even have to wait to get our grubby little hands on it either. The game will be available for download on Wednesday February 20, 2008.

More Screenshots of the Bloody Action game PROTOTYPE were released today…

ROCK BAND GETS THREE MORE SONGS ADDED TO IT LIST OF DLC–

• Stone Temple Pilots “Sex Type Thing”
• Weezer “El Scorcho”
• Garbage “Why Do You Love Me”

MAGIC THE GATHERING COMING TO THE XBLA in 08′

Stainless Games is developing a game with the Magic: The Gathering IP for the XBox live arcade and the PC later this year. Mind Control will be developing the IP for MAC users.

New Screen shots of Lego: Batman –

Wii game “Deadly Creatures” new screens –

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We, oh I mean I am back with another stellar episode of Channel KOD. This week I am doing the show solo as both KODxBLLUE and KODxBOOMIE are out. This week I cover the obvious What I have been playing, News and DICE 08′ and GDC previews. I also review Professor Layton and the Curious Village and Final Fantasy killer Lost Odyssey.

Here is a recap of this weeks show…..

Segment #1:

What we’ve been playing:

KODxfactor: Professor Layton & the Curious Village, DMC 4, Lost Odyssey, God of War: Chains of Olympus Demo Segment #2:

- GDC next Week 2/18/08 - 2/22/08

- Dice this past week

Segment #3:

NEWS:

- Silicon Nights developing a new thriller…..Could it be Eternal Darkness 2?

- Saints Row 2 screen were released. Reactions!

- Skate 2 ad another Burnout have been Confirmed from EA for first fiscal year of 09 releases.

- Mass Effect 2 & 3 confirmed on 360 & PC

- A new MMO from Bioware has also been announced.

- Pandemic working on a new LOTR game.

- Guitar Hero gets another Expansion disc in Guitar Hero: Aerosmith!! Coming out in June

- Secret Agent Clank trailer released for the PSP!

- Major chain retailer Walmart and full HD supporter Toshiba have dropped their support for HD DVD! Walmart has said they will stop carrying HD movies and players in June of this year.

Segment #4:

Reviews:

Professor Layton and the Curious Village (DS): 8/10 from KODxfactor

Lost Odyssey (Xbox 360): 8/10 from KODxfactor

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We are back after a week off for watching the upseting Super Bowl. My Patriots lost but thanks for a wonderful season and great Super Bowl. We wish Boomey our best on his recovery. He came down with a cold, so GET WELL SOON! We talk alot of Devil May Cry 4, and Rez HD! We also talk about Smash Brothers sales in Japan, Mass Effect DLC, Call of Duty 4 DLC, Duke Hukem confirmed to the XBLA and much much more.

Here is a rundown of Episode #5:

Segment 1:

What We’ve been playing

KODxfactor: Turok, WOW, REZ HD, GRAW 2, Devil May Cry 4

KODxBLUE: REZ HD, Turok, Devil May Cry 4

Segment 3:

We discuss DMC 4

Segment 2: NEWS

- Too Human could be coming May 6th?

- Sony shuts the door on the 80 Gig unit and plans on releasing a bigger HD unit! NOT AGAIn!!!!!!

- Sudden release of REZ HD on 360 marketplace

- Smash Bros. releases in Japan to stellar reviews!

- Ninja Gaiden 2 new enemy revealed….WOLFMEN!

- EA Confirms Rock Band for the Wii, but no release date.

- Blue/Black DS releasing Today 2/10/08

- 38 Tracks confirmed for Mario Kart Wii thus far.

Army of Two shipping on March 4th? Gamestop apparently says so.

DLC is coming for Call Of Duty 4, in the way of new Multiplayer maps this Spring!

Japan will get their hands, Like everything else, on the silver PS3 first this year!

3 new Rock Band songs hit the marketplace and PS Store. “Roam” by: B-52, “we Care a lot” by: Faith No More, & “Dr. Love” by: Kiss

The Club goes GOLD for the PS3, XBox 360 & the PC

Super Smash Bros. Brawl sells more than 700,000 copies overseas

Sony gets their hands on a sequel that nobody probably gives a shit about in “Monster Madness: Grave Digger” lol start the list for 2008’s shittiest games!

Splinter Cell Conviction hits another bump. The game apparently will be delayed AGAIN until October, early November of 08′

The ESRB apparently leaked a rating for a game that no one knew was coming. “Lost Planet:Colonies”. Is this a sequel or expansion pack. It is slated for the PC and XBox 360

- Gears of War 2 coming or announcement this year? Gamepro magazine tends to say so. Their latest magazine cover has info about an apparent Gears of War 2!

- XBox originals get 3 more titles in “Ninja Gaiden Black”, “Black”, and “Sid Miers Pirates”

- Mass Effect DLC “Bring Down the Sky” will hit March 10th for 400 Microsoft Points, will include a new uncharted world & a new race called “Batarians”. 90 mins of exra game play and a 50 new point achievements added.

- Mario Kart channel coming to Wii so you can see world rankings as well as your own.

- Duke Nukum 3D confirmed for XBLA in late 08′

- Viacon to buy Take 2 Interactive

- Former Fight Night developer takes the reigns of the Gears of War Franchise.

Segment 4: Reviews

Devil May Cry 4 (PS3, 360 & PC): 9/10 from KODxfactor

8.5/10 from KODxBLUE

Turok (360 & PS3): 7/10 from KODxfactor

6.5/10 from KODxBLUE

REZ HD (Xbox 360 Live Arcade): 9/10 from KODxfactor

9/10 from KODxBLUE

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Episode # 5 will post Monday night and will be made available for download on  Tuesday 2/12/08, so don’t fret. It is coming!

Due to the Superbowl Airing on TV Sunday 02/03/08 our normal recording of Channel K.O.D. will not commence until the following Sunday 2/10/08. We will combine last week with this week.

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