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GR1 Heavy Metal

Top 13 Tracks As Of February 04, 2006

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# Artist Song Title Album
1 Disturbed Down With The Sickness The Sickness
2 Slipknot Duality 9.0: Live [Disc 2]
3 Rammstein Sonne Mutter
4 Disturbed Awaken Believe
5 System of a Down Spiders System of a Down
6 Rammstein Ich Will Mutter
7 Pantera Walk Vulgar Display Of Power
8 Korn Did My Time Take A Look In The Mirror
9 Drowning Pool Bodies Sinner
10 David Draiman of Disturbed Forsaken Queen Of The Damned
11 Slipknot Wait and Bleed Slipknot
12 Rammstein Links Mutter
13 Disturbed Voices The Sickness

This list is generated weekly from a ranking based on your votes in the Live365 playlist window.

Battlefield 2

More EA Job Cuts At DICE

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This was posted to the Planet Battlefield Forums:

Swedish paper this morning anouncing that at least 200 people working for DICE will loose their jobs.

I tried to confirm it online, but can not. Either way, I imagine it is true given the recent cuts and acquisition of DICE by EA. This does not speak well of the future for the Battlefield Franchise.

Unreal Tournament

Godsmack Sets Date For New Album

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More News From Blabbermouth.net:

GODSMACK have set an April 25 release date for their new album, “IV”. The albums first single, “Speak”, will be released to radio on Tuesday, February 14.

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Other songtitles expected to appear on the CD include “Livin in Sin”, “Shine Down” (which comes complete with “killer harmonica”) and “Voodoo Too”.

Check out the full article for Sully Ernas thoughts on previous albums.

The Osbournes

Ozzfest 2006 Rumors and Musings

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From Blabbermouth.net:

Jesse Hayes of the Cleveland radio station WMMS 100.7 FM announced on Tuesday, January 31 during his daily “Buzzard Rock Report” segment that BODY COUNT — the heavy metal band fronted by rapper/actor Ice T — will be performing at this years Ozzfest.

Further down in this article, it states Disturbed has also been confirmed. This is not accurate accourding to this article:

KNAC.COM: Word on the Internet is that DISTURBED has been confirmed for Ozzfest — is this true?

Draiman: “We can neither confirm nor deny such information.”

Body Count Article

Disturbed Article

Hot Off The Presses

Electronic Arts Cuts 5% Of Worldwide Staff

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This is how a big game company does business….

From Gamasutra.

According to online reports confirmed by an official statement made to consumer site GameSpot, Electronic Arts has laid off around 5 percent of its staff worldwide, following a cautionary conference call in mid-December regarding the slowing video game market.

Although the EA spokesperson did not specifically reference affected studios, its believed that the EA Redwood Shores, EA Tiburon, and EA Vancouver studios were all affected notably by the layoffs…

Videos

Rebel Meets Rebel Preview

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Day in Rock reports: Wanna hear what Rebel Meets Rebel (the project feature Vinnie
Paul, Dimebag, Rex Brown, Country writer David Allen Coe) sounds like? You can now
hear snippets from the album before it hits stores in May. Head on over to the full
story link to check out some of the songs that will cruch the worlds of metal and
country together.

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Quake

Enemy Territory: Quake Wars Preview

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Gamespy has a preview of the upcoming shooterfest, Enemy Territory: Quake Wars. This wasnt a hands on play test, but rather ID showing off a few of the classes, vehicles and lighting elements.

From the article:

From what we saw, Enemy Territory: Quake Wars could be best described as a collision between worlds: the class-based, objective-driven combat of Enemy Territory; the sprawling, vehicle-laden outdoor maps of the Battlefield games; the futuristic feel of the Quake universe, pitting the Earths Global Defense Force (GDF) against an incoming Strogg invasion. In some ways, you could think of it as “Battlefield 2152.”

They claim this is a screenshot of the interior. I hope they are telling the truth because Ive seen screenshots before games come out that look incredible, then the game actually looks nothing like the early screenshots. Ahem! BF2….

I hate to give away the end of the article, but if what they say is true, I cant wait to play this game.

…as fans of both Enemy Territory and the Battlefield series, we cant wait to see more…

This Preview Article is short, but deffinately worth reading.

Battlefield 2

EAs Euro Booster Pack Blunder

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I just received the EA newsletter in my email. It included the following statement:

Take the powerful Euro Force into action with a full arsenal of the
latest technical weaponry. 7 new weapons, 4 new vehicles, and 3 new
Asian maps, including the Great Wall of China. Download Euro Force
direct from EA to your PC and begin playing immediately.

Ummmmm…. Did somebody in marketing not get the memo that said this was delayed? Oops…. Of course, we would expect nothing less than this from our buddies at Electronic Arts Marketing Department….

GR1 Heavy Metal

Top 13 Tracks As Of January 28, 2006

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# Artist Song Title Album
1 Disturbed Down With The Sickness The Sickness
2 Rammstein Sonne Mutter
3 Pantera Walk Vulgar Display Of Power
4 Disturbed Voices The Sickness
5 Disturbed Awaken Believe
6 Rammstein Links Mutter
7 Mudvayne Happy Lost And Found
8 Korn Thoughtless Untouchables
9 Korn Here To Stay Untouchables
10 Disturbed Liberate Believe
11 System of a Down Spiders System of a Down
12 Korn Did My Time Take A Look In The Mirror
13 Drowning Pool Bodies Sinner

This list is generated weekly from a ranking based on your votes in the Live365 playlist window.

New Releases

Star Wars: Empire At War Demo Available

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I have never been a big fan of RTS games. I enjoyed Warcraft II and III, but C&C, Starcraft and Total Annihilation never turned me on. There was one RTS that caught my attention outside the RPG genre. It was Star Wars: Battlegrounds. It was fairly balanced and sucked this big geek into the giant world of Star Wars.

Recently, I heard there was another Star Wars RTS in development. After SW:Battlegrounds, I have been anxiously awaiting the new Star Wars RTS. It may not be out yet, but you can check out a single map demo available for download from FileCloud.

GR1 Heavy Metal

Top 13 Tracks As Of January 21, 2006

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# Artist Song Title Album
1 White Zombie More Human than Human ASTRO-CREEP:2000 Songs of Love
2 Slipknot Duality 9.0: Live [Disc 2]
3 Pantera Walk Vulgar Display Of Power
4 Disturbed Liberate Believe
5 Disturbed Down With The Sickness The Sickness
6 Rammstein Sonne Mutter
7 Mudvayne Happy Lost And Found
8 Korn Here To Stay Untouchables
9 Drowning Pool Bodies Sinner
10 Disturbed Voices The Sickness
11 Disturbed The Game The Sickness
12 System of a Down Spiders System of a Down
13 Slipknot Wait and Bleed Slipknot

This list is generated weekly from a ranking based on your votes in the Live365 playlist window.

Hot Off The Presses

Guild Wars: Factions Free-For-All PvP Weekend

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The Guild Wars Team would like to invite gamers everywhere to join us on the weekend of January 20th for a Guild Wars: Factions Global Free-For-All PvP Weekend Event! This event will take place on the Battle Isles, the new PvP continent. Players can visit this new area of the world to to try out a brand new arena, to visit the new combat training zones, or to experience the PvP explorable areas. Join us to get an early look at how PvP will evolve with the coming of Guild Wars: Factions!

The Event Schedule
Start of Event: January 20th: Midnight Pacific Time; 8:00 a.m. GMT; 5:00 p.m. Seoul
Closing Time: January 22nd/23rd: 11:59 p.m. Pacific Time January 22nd; 7:59 a.m. GMT January 23rd; 4:50 p.m. Seoul January 23rd

Your Key to PvP*

American Players:
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European Players:
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Feel free to share this key with your friends, guild mates and gaming partners!

*If you are an existing Guild Wars player, you do not need to acquire an access key for your Guild Wars account; you will automatically receive access to all Global Free-For-All PvP Weekend content when the event begins.

Download The Guildwars: Factions Free Client

Hot Off The Presses

Free DDO: Stormreach Preview

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Anyone Interested in previewing the new Dungeon & Dragons: Stormreach should drop by FilePlanet for a chance to play.

It should be noted there are two clients available, the Standard Client and the High Res Client. I grabbed the High Res to put my new GeForce 6600GT through the paces.


http://www.fileplanet.com/promotions/ddo_stormreach/preview/

A FilePlanet account is required to sign up. The good news is it worked with my Free Account. Better hurry!

Play Times and Dates

* We will begin taking signups on a first come first served basis – January 13th
* Tuesday January 17th at 5:00pm – 7:00pm PST/ 8:00pm – 10:00pm EST registration will begin
* Thursday January 19th at 7:00am PST/10:00am EST gameplay servers will go live
* Saturday January 21st at 11:59pm PST/ Sunday January 22nd at 2:59am EST gameplay servers will close