This is a reminder of our currently running Rock Band T-shirt contest, and entering couldn’t be easier! All you need to do is send us an email telling us a song that you think would be a perfect fit for Rock Band. We’ll pick a few at random, send along the suggestions to Harmonix and send you a free shirt!

So here’s the skinny:

• Send an email to thebbps@gmail to enter (include the name of a song you’d love to see in Rock Band).
• Be sure to include your shirt size in the email so I make sure I can cover you. (sadly, I only have large and XL).
• I’m gonna open the contest to everyone, though understand shipping may take longer if you live far, far away.
• Deadline is midnight EST on July 28th.
• Winners to be announced on July 30th!

This will probably be our last posting about E3 07, and it’s yet another episode of Gamers Weekly. Only this time it’s better!

Why you ask? Cause there’s a certain website that’s referenced in the very beginning of the clip! Oh yea baby, we rock.

Click here to check it out!

It’s been awhile since we’ve had a contest, and as luck would have it we get to both give some stuff away to a few good readers as well as promote a game we couldn’t be more excited about. I speak of course of the upcoming Rock Band!

Swag was elusive at E3 07 but I managed to acquire quite a few Rock Band t-shirts to give away. So here’s what we’re gonna do. Send us an email with a song you’d live to see in the upcoming game… We’ll pick a few of our favorite answers and send them along to Harmonix and send you a free t-shirt!

So here’s the skinny:

• Send an email to thebbps@gmail to enter (include the name of a song you’d love to see in Rock Band).
• Be sure to include your shirt size in the email so I make sure I can cover you. (sadly, I only have large and XL).
• I’m gonna open the contest to everyone, though understand shipping may take longer if you live far, far away.
• Deadline is midnight EST on July 28th.
• Winners to be announced on July 30th!

Canada suffered some kind of national “Can’t Participate In Podcast Recording” disaster so you all are stuck with the American side of the site this week.

This week we talk about:

• Whatcha’ Been Playin?
• Silicon Knights Battling Epic Games
• What E3 Should Become
• Upcoming Releases

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So over the past few days I’ve broken down a couple of key games I got to check out during E3. Some hands-on, some not. I played and saw a lot of other games that maybe don’t warrant their own post, so I’m just going to go over a few of them here.

Read on for my time with NiGHTS 2, skate, Carnival Games, Call of Duty 4, Project Gotham 4, Guitar Hero III and Hail to the Chimp. Continue Reading »

There’s few games I’ve wanted to get my hands on more than Rock Band. Getting to E3 without an invite for EA’s game room I figured I could just try it out at Barker Hanger. Of course later on I learned the hard way that barely any of the “A” games were even on display there. Great, now I was faced with the prospect of flying cross-country sick as a dog and not be able to play the one game that I felt like I NEEDED to.

Well fuck that, there’s no way I was leaving Santa Monica without getting my grubby little mitts on Rock Band. So Friday morning I get to the hotel, ready to try and smooth talk my way into the EA suite. With business card in hand I pleaded my case, and with the blessing of the Gods got into the room. Before I knew it I was standing at the base of the stage where Rock Band was being shown off. Continue Reading »

Something tells me that Bethesda’s Fallout 3 will own my soul when it hits store shelves next fall. How do I know this? Well I was lucky enough to sit-in on a pretty lengthy demo and question and answer session late last week. Afterwards I came out with a new appreciation for both the Fallout series and Bethesda.

Now I know a lot of people out there are huge Fallout fans, as the series has something of a rabid following. Sadly I can’t speak to how this game does in the canon of those that came before, because honestly I never played the first few Fallout games. I know that loses me some geek cred but it’s something I’m working to fix, trust me. But the creators of Fallout 3 took great pains to mention numerous times what big fans they are of the original games, and that this game will satisfy the old fans while opening it up to new fans as well. Continue Reading »