After the finish up their Canadian tour with Strike Anywhere, Bane will embark on another run of North American shows, with these headlining and supported by Trapped Under Ice, Cruel Hand and Alpha & Omega.
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Room For One, Everything Must Go, Favorite Weapon Class
New Mutation
Room For One
Only room for one survivor in this rescue vehicle.
You need to work together only long enough until you can survive on your own. First person to the rescue vehicle wins!
This Mutation is available for Campaign Finales Only.
Everything Must Go
Last week’s poll results for the question; If you could remove one item from the Survivors in Versus, what would it be?
PC Results
23% Nothing
19% Medkits
19% Defibs
18% Grenade Launcher
14% Explosive Ammo
7% Incendiary Ammo
Xbox 360 Results
27% Nothing
21% Medkits
18% Defibs
16% Grenade Launcher
11% Explosive Ammo
7% Incendiary Ammo
Overall:
In this kind of Poll we don’t consider “Nothing” the winner, as nothing to anything loses in both polls. What it does say is there are many things that people feel strongly about, maybe not strong enough to remove but strong enough that we should make some adjustments. So we are going to be making adjustments.
Favorite Weapon
This week’s in-game blog poll is; what is your favorite weapon class?
On the PC this week we are testing increased self-inflicted friendly fire damage for the Grenade Launcher. Will this change balance the Grenade Launcher? Time will tell. We will continue to experiment with changes on both platforms through this process.
Favorite Weapon
This week’s in-game blog poll is: what is your favorite weapon class?
Next Week’s Mutation: Headshot!
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Max Bemis, one of the most controversial figures here on Punknews.org, recently spoke to Brendan Kelly of Lawrence Arms and Tobias Jeg of Red Scare about, well, Punknews.org and other things. Even though they mispronounce “Bemis,” Max is candid about his band, lyrical topics and also speaks honestly about why 5% of Punknews.org commenters are dicks (not his words).
Check out the video here (segment at 7:00 or so)
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Nightmares for a Week have signed to Academy Fight Song. The band is compared to Jawbreaker, The Hold Steady and The Get Up Kids and the band just wrapped up recording their debut full-length later this Fall after recording with John Naclerio (Polar Bear Club, My Chemical Romance, Just Surrender.) They released their debut EP, A Flood Tomorrow, via Broken English Records.
Check out some music on their MySpace page.
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We’ve posted some new reviews. You can check them out below:
You can check out any of our 9356 reviews right here.
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Purchase Metro 2033 now for 50% off!
Witness the everyday horrors of a broken society living in constant fear. The year is 2033 and you’re part of an entire generation that has been born and raised underground. Steel your nerve and prepare to face the terrors that await.
Kevin Lyman, overlord of the Warped Tour recently spoke about the 2010 edition of the long-running festival. He addresses the most common criticism in the first few moments:
Usually the fans will let me know, but it’s diverse. I think people will say, “Hey, there are no punk bands.” And I’ll go, “Wait a second, what about bands like Alkaline Trio and Face To Face.” There are a lot of bands that are coming back to the tour that haven’t been there in a long time. There are new young bands; you’ve got Andrew W.K, who hasn’t been there in a long time, but he’s as popular as ever. I know that on the pop side sometimes people complain about that, but you’ve got bands like Mike Posner and things like that that seem to be appealing to that crowd. I think it’s a pretty mixed lineup. I don’t see like any grand superstars on there right at the moment, but I think there’s a little bit out there for everyone.
He also mentions the controversial additions of Brokencycde and Millionaires:
To me, Millionaires probably shouldn’t have been on Warped Tour. They weren’t ready for it. Trust me, they weren’t ready as a live bannd. You’re gonna put yourself out there you have to be able to pull it out there. But during that time period a lot of the people were talking about the band. And you know, I want to see the curiosity too; if that’s the way music’s going even if it’s not maybe the stuff I listen to. I felt bad for them in a way; they just weren’t ready to be out on that tour. And I don’t think we’ve heard much from them recently, have we?
He comments again about the “punk” issue:
There are just as many punk bands as there used to be. I worked really hard, and on the West Coast I do those old school stages. I wish I could bring those bands on the whole tour, but man, they’re old too. They aren’t gonna do too well in St. Louis at 96 degree heat and 97% humidity. And if you really look at punk, punk was regionally coastal. It was always an underground. The Warped Tour is not for everyone. The die hard, die-hard kid that is only into punk rock…there’s a lot of basement shows. That’s for him. This is more for the music fan. If you look at ’95, how punk was the Warped Tour? Was No Doubt a punk band? Like, in the true sense of the word. Quicksand, I don’t know if they could be called a true punk band. But we definitely grew with Bad Religion and NoFX. I wish there were more big punk bands. It’s hard to find new punk bands, if you really think about it. We need some new bands. Bad Religion, NoFX, Rancid are 15, 20 years old. Name me a punk band that’s really broken out in the last 5 years.
Check out the interview here.
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The Dopamines have unveiled yet another new track from their upcoming Paper and Plastick debut, Expect the Worst. Due out June 29, 2010, it’ll follow up 2009’s Soap and Lampshades EP.
Head here to check out “Dick Simmons.”
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Japandroids have posted a free download of their song, “Younger Us.” It comes from the second edition of their ongoing 7-inch single series and is due out in July. The second single includes aforementioned A-side title track, “Younger Us,” along with a B-side cover of classic punk outfit X‘s “Sex And Dying In High Society.”
Download it here.
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The Suicide Machines have announced another reunion show. This one’s happening on July 24 at St. Andrews Hall in the band’s hometown of Detroit, MI. Joining them on the bill will be The Code, Wreak Havoc, We Are the Union and The Bill Bondsmen. More information is available here.
The band initially called it quits in 2006 but reunited for two shows last November. Their (presumably) final album, War Profiteering Is Killing Us All, was issued in 2005. Members have since dabbled in projects such as Hifi Handgrenades, The A-Gang and Hellmouth.
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To celebrate their 25th Anniversary, Spin has posted a list of their 125 best albums of those 2.5 decades. The list includes The Hives, LCD Soundsystem, Queens of the Stone Age, Green Day, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, The Flaming Lips, Against Me!, Animal Collective, Johnny Cash, The Arcade Fire, Elliott Smith, The White Stripes, TV On The Radio, [[The Fall], Sleater-Kinney, The Pogues, Pearl Jam, Tom Waits, U2, Fugazi, Dinosaur Jr., The Cure, Rage Against The Machine, Pixies, Beastie Boys, Public Enemy, The Jesus and Mary Chain, Radiohead, Nirvana, Metallica, My Bloody Valentine, The Strokes, Hüsker Dü, Sonic Youth, The Replacements, Nine Inch Nails and others. Surprisingly, Nirvana’s groundbreaking album Nevermind comes in at number four.
Check out the full list here and disagree completely.
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Though first described as “natural causes”, Rolling Stone has posted an update on the death of Avenged Sevenfold drummer James Owen Sullivan, nicknamed “The Rev,” last December. The musician died passed away at his home in in Southern California due to an accidental overdose of prescription drugs and alcohol, Toxicology reports indicate that Sullivan suffered “acute polydrug intoxication due to combined effects of Oxycodone, Oxymorphone, Diazepam/Nordiazepam and ethanol.”
You can find the report here.
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With the latest, Steam-exclusive addition to Painkiller Resurrection, we introduce the ULTIMATE challenge for all Painkiller enthusiasts. The Tower of Power is not a battle arena for puny humans, but indeed the proving ground for all of those demons which want to become one of Lucifers generals. They have to fight their way through a wasteland of burnt demon corpses and lava, a place, where each step can be your last. Bad enough that the hordes of fire giants can not only bash you with the hammer or throw a deadly load against you, they can also summon the unholy powers of hell itself to throw you of the dangerous path. And of course they call in other creatures from hell to stop your progress in Tower of Power at all costs. Can you find the entrance to the heart of hell, the secret area and the countless treasures?
How to start Tower of Power:
1. Start Painkiller Resurrection.
2. Create new multiplayer game.
3. Set time at least (if you`re really good!!!) to 30 minutes or better to an hour and ad the DM_COOP_Tower_of_Power map to an empty map list.
4. Start and enjoy!
New Pricing:
$19.99
?19.99
£17.99
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