GR1 Heavy Metal

GR1 Station Update

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We just updated Gamers Radio GR1 with a bunch of new tunes including 3 new Indie Bands from MySpace!

Hurt – Unkind – Vol. 1
Hurt – Rapture – Vol. 1
Hurt – Overdose – Vol. 1
Hurt – Falls Apart – Vol. 1

Stone Sour – Socio – Come What(ever) May
Stone Sour – Sillyworld – Come What(ever) May
Stone Sour – Made Of Scars – Come What(ever) May
Stone Sour – 30/30-150 – Come What(ever) May
Stone Sour – 1st Person – Come What(ever) May

Shinedown – Save Me – Us And Them
Shinedown – Heroes – Us And Them

Rammstein – Wo bist du – Rosenrot
Rammstein – Spring – Rosenrot
Rammstein – Rosenrot – Rosenrot
Rammstein – Mann gegen Mann – Rosenrot
Nonpoint – Theres Going to be a War! – To The Pain
Nonpoint – Bullet With a Name – To The Pain

Marilyn Manson – I Dont Like The Drugs – Mechanical Animals
Marilyn Manson – Coma White – Mechanical Animals

Killswitch Engage – When Darkness Falls – The End Of Heartache
Killswitch Engage – Take This Oath – The End Of Heartache
Killswitch Engage – Rose Of Sharyn – The End Of Heartache
Killswitch Engage – Hope Is… – The End Of Heartache
Killswitch Engage – A Bid Farewell – The End Of Heartache

MySpace.com/Underride
Underride – Glass Eye – Necessary Evil
Underride – Watching You Bleed – Horsepower Kills

MySpace.com/Rikets
Rikets – the murder – The Best of War and More
Rikets – Hollywood – Anything For The Devil

MySpace.com/MightyMD
Manifest Destiny – Storm Is Forming – Within
Manifest Destiny – Dethroned – Within
Manifest Destiny – As I Am – Within

World of Warcraft

World of Warcraft: What A Game Should Be

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WOW! I mean literally, World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusades expansion looks incredible! Let me say it again, WOW! Before I go into the details, I would like to pose this question. Why cant every game company be as innovative, bold and dead on as Blizzard? It amazes me to see a company that can do so many good things for their players and continue to push the envelope of what a MMORPG or any Game, for that matter, should be.

On to the details. A few interesting things have been pointed out in this recent GameSpy article on World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusades. Lets start with the big ticket items. All new raids will be capped at 25 players. I think that is a great move. The current Ranking Ladder system for PVP is going to be scrapped. This is a big deal. Its the equivalent of EA dropping the ranking system from Battlefield 2 because they realize how flawed a system that requires power gamers to prey on casual gamers really is. In its place, there are going to be true tournament style PVP arenas called the Gladiatorial Arena System. Think CAL for MMORPGs. Players will form teams to compete in three different brackets: 2v2, 3v3 or 5v5. Even cooler, this system will allow inter-faction fighting. Now the Horde will be able to PVP against the Horde and the Alliance will be able to PVP against the Alliance.

Another cool PVP feature is the addition of a neutral city in the expansion that can be captured by a faction. The faction that controls the city will reap the benefits of its Quest Givers and NPC shops. In a move that really brings World of Warcraft closer to its RTS brothers, there will bombing run griffins doing Area of Effect damage and siege towers that can be destroyed. The flight paths will be fixed, but it sounds really cool.

The GameSpy Article is 3 pages and definitely worth the read even if you are not a WOW player. The ideas in this article are the pinnacle of what outside the box thinking can do for a game. Other game companies could learn a lot from Blizzard if they are paying attention.

Battlefield 2

Battlefield 2 Mod Updates

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Some Battlefield 2 Mod release information is coming out this week. First off, Operation PeaceKeeper has announced that they will be releasing version 0.15 of their Eastern European based mod on August 11, 2006. This information is at the very end of the video that was posted to show off in game action.

Second, the Point Of Existance mod has posted an update that should make its fans happy. Seems they are very close to releasing. They dont give a date, but did say the following:

The team reached a milestone this weekend with releasing POE:2 into Release Candidate status to our testers. To assist us with making sure the build is stable before we release to the public we have included 151 stress testers. The stress testers consist of the Forgotten Hope Development Team and Testers, friends of our developers & testers, and Battlefield:2 community representatives from the multiple websites worldwide.

FEAR

Sierra Gives FEAR Multiplayer Away For Free

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08-08-2006 – Sierra Entertainment today announced that the multiplayer component from the award winning PC title F.E.A.R.â„¢ (First Encounter Assault Recon), has been renamed F.E.A.R. Combat, and will be made available to the public as a free download on Thursday August 17th, 2006.

F.E.A.R. Combat is the complete multiplayer component of F.E.A.R. and includes all the updates, additional official maps and additional official game modes all in one downloadable file. F.E.A.R. Combat users will be able to play against the owners of the retail version of F.E.A.R. as well as the other F.E.A.R. Combat users.

F.E.A.R. Combat features:
– 10 Multiplayer Game modes.
– 19 Multiplayer Maps.
– 12 different weapons.
– Punkbuster support for anti cheat support.
– The capability to download user generated content.

To play F.E.A.R. Combat, consumers simply go to www.joinfear.com and register to obtain their free, Combat keycode. When the file is made available for download on Aug 17th 2006, consumers can install, enter their keycode, and get ready to join F.E.A.R. Combat!

F.E.A.R. Combat will be available for download on August 17th 2006.

Source: http://www.fearfans.com/newsitems/103/

GR1 Heavy Metal

Top 13 Tracks As Of August 7, 2006

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# Artist Song Title Album
1 Slipknot The Nameless Vol 3 (Subliminal Verses)
2 Disturbed Down With The Sickness The Sickness
3 Orgy Cant Take This Punk Statik Paranoia
4 Disturbed Stupify The Sickness
5 Disturbed Guarded Ten Thousand Fists
6 Slipknot Vermilion Pt. 2 Vol 3 (Subliminal Verses)
7 Korn Did My Time Take A Look In The Mirror
8 Deftones Change Queen of the Damned
9 Tool Parabola Lateralus
10 Slipknot Left Behind Iowa
11 Rage Against The Machine Freedom Rage Against The Machine
12 Mudvayne Mercy, Severity The End of All Things to Come
13 Mudvayne Happy Lost And Found

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

Unreal Tournament

Unreal Tournament 2007 Delayed

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Midway/Epic Games have confirmed rumors that Unreal Tournament 2007 will not be released until the first half of 2007. Even then, the game could be released as early as January or as late as June. Unfortunately, Midway isnt getting any more specific yet.

I wonder if this has anything to do with the delay of the PS3?

Of the big 3 FPS to be released in 2006, Battlefield 2142, Enemy Territory: Quake Wars and Unreal Tournament 2007, only BF2.1 (aka BF2142) seems to be holding to their 2006 release date. Of course, we wouldnt expect anything less from our friends at Electronic Arts. 😉

GR1 Heavy Metal

Top 13 Tracks As Of July 31, 2006

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# Artist Song Title Album
1 Disturbed Down With The Sickness The Sickness
2 Slipknot The Nameless Vol 3 (Subliminal Verses)
3 Slipknot Vermilion Pt. 2 Vol 3 (Subliminal Verses)
4 David Draiman of Disturbed Forsaken Queen Of The Damned
5 Drowning Pool Bodies Sinner
6 Deftones Change Queen of the Damned
7 Rage Against The Machine Freedom Rage Against The Machine
8 Orgy Cant Take This Punk Statik Paranoia
9 Nonpoint Move Now Recoil
10 Disturbed Sons Of Plunder Ten Thousand Fists
11 Disturbed Guarded Ten Thousand Fists
12 Shinedown .45 Leave A Whisper
13 Mudvayne Happy Lost And Found

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

General

Weekly (Sort of) Links of Interest

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Like a bad clock, a week and a half later, we give you another installment of Links of Interest.

Our first link of interest comes straight out of our referral logs. Its not often we see a Hungarian website in our logs, so I decided to check it out. I cant read Hungarian and babelfish does not have a Hungarian translator, so I have no idea what it says. There was one word I did understand and it said Music. Nice of them to link to our site. While my interest in the Hungarian words is more curiosity than anything else, it was the pictures on the site that caught my eye.

I am not sure if these are original works or comments on others work, but I spent quite a lot of time just going through the site to look at the art work. So, check out this Hungarian Blog to see some incredible fantasy artwork.

Our second site comes by way of an accidental encounter. I was trying to find the font used in the Punisher Comic Book and ran across Iconian. This cool website is a comic geeks dream. It has tons of free fonts in tribute to the comic books that inspired their design. It was fun just going through the list to see which Fonts I could associate with the appropriate comic book.

Our third link comes to us from a story I was reading in the latest copy of Wired Magazine. I really wanted to talk about this article and it turns out you can read the whole thing online on the Wired Website. The article is a short brief on a lawsuit filed by the MPAA against Shawn Hogan for allegedly downloading Meet The Fockers. It turns out that not only does Shawn own this movie on DVD, but he happens to be the CEO of a multimillion Internet company called Digital Point. You may be aware of their largely popular Webmaster Forums.

Rather than paying the $2500 settlement fee also know as extortion money, Shawn has decided to take this to court even if it costs him hundreds of thousands of dollars. I am glad the MPAAs illicit RIAA like tactics of suing its own customers is going to be heard in a court of law. Suing your customers is not a smart move and it really needs to stop.

GR1 Heavy Metal

Top 13 Tracks As Of July 23rd, 2006

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# Artist Song Title Album
1 Slipknot The Nameless Vol 3 (Subliminal Verses)
2 Disturbed Down With The Sickness The Sickness
3 Slipknot Vermilion Pt. 2 Vol 3 (Subliminal Verses)
4 Stereomud Steppin Away Perfect Self
5 Rage Against The Machine Freedom Rage Against The Machine
6 Korn A.D.I.D.A.S. Life Is Peachy
7 Drowning Pool Bodies Sinner
8 David Draiman of Disturbed Forsaken Queen Of The Damned
9 Thrice Image Of The Invisible Vheissu
10 Slipknot Vermilion Vol 3 (Subliminal Verses)
11 Slipknot Left Behind Iowa
12 Slipknot Duality 9.0: Live [Disc 2]
13 Shinedown .45 Leave A Whisper

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