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At 6pm UK time today (5pm GMT, 1pm Eastern, 10am Pacific) myself and Gavin will be recording the final episode of season one of the NGCast. If you come to this very post just before that time, you should find a little box has magically appeared with the live stream in.

But wait, there’s more! You can join in with the live show by asking us questions right here, or hopping into the live chat with your fellow NZers here!

All going to plan, the feed should appear below:

5PM Greenwich Mean Time May 25th. Remember that time boys and girls as Wardrox and I have decided that it shall be the time that the next live show will be broadcasting. If you want to be a part of the live show, head into the IRC channel and settle yourself in as we’ll be hanging out in there as well as the stream chat.

We’ll throw up a post on Monday morning with the URL that will be broadcasting on. In the mean time, don’t forget to leave a question in the forum thread and take part in the Battledrome. If you can’t think of anything to contribute, think harder! Sing a song. Bake a cake. Scratch the Nukezilla logo into your flesh with a pair of compasses Do some cross-stitching.

See you on Monday.

To keep things nice and simple, just point your browser to this very page at 6pm UK time on Monday 19th (click here to find out what time that is in your time zone) and you will find the live feed for the first, proper, live NGCast!

To join in with the ‘cast you can register for Justin.tv and chat on the built in chat channel there, or hop over into NG‘s very own IRC channel (you need to be registered with Negative Gamer). If you want to get your question asked, post it into the questions section of the forum.

The show’s being recorded and you’ll be able to listen to it (again?) when it goes up at the NGCast’s regular time on Tuesday morning.

Update: Show’s over folks. Thanks to those who joined us!

For those who haven’t yet listen to last week’s show; the NGCast is going to be doing a live show, streamed right across the internet, on Monday afternoon.

It’ll be starting around 6pm-ish GMT (1pm-ish EST), but keep an eye on both the site (where a link to the feed will be posted), and mine and Gavin’s twitters for the latest.

The show will be roughly regular, with all the news of the week (including the big site related news that’s due to be announced tomorrow) and the battledrome. We’ll also have listener questions taken both from the forum and from those following the show live.

If you’re not around to listen in to the live recording, an edited version of the show will be going up at the NGCast’s regular slot of Tuesday morning.

I predict nothing will go wrong and nobody will be offended.

As day one of PAX East 2010 draws to an end, the first of our phone-in round-ups is now available for your ears.

The first recording gives a brief impression of the show floor, the lack of space to stand, and complete absence of hand sanitizer (“Con SARS” here we come!)

The second delectable sound bite comes from the APB booth and contains squishy PlayStation balls and sexy APB ass reviews! Exciting stuff for the first day.

Keep an eye on the site over the next few days for more show floor recordings. It’s like you’re actually there! (Even though you aren’t.)

I love to hear things in my ear, do you? If so, mosey on down to that purdy lil flash player down there and press the play button to hear a globe-trotting Mancunian whine into your ear for about a minute!

Recorded live on the floor of the New Jersey home, Wardrox does a quick interview with world-renown linguist and literary genius, Chelsea Thompson to give a brief example of the way in which they will be keeping us up-to-date of the goings on of PAX East 2010.

Keep an eye on the site over the next few days for more posts like this (although, with more relevant content) as we’ll be publishing them as we get them from our agents in the field.

In what can only be described as devastating for the legions of European Nascar 09 fans and ardent competitors of the genre rocking Facebreaker, EA has announced that it is dropping online support for a swathe of decrepid sports titles come February 2nd. Utilising their own dedicated servers for all online play, EA retain the right to cease network support for all internet enabled titles in their burgeoning canon.

Here, in what seems, at least personally, a perfectly reasonable business decision given that they’ve fulfilled all contractual obligation to the consumer for well over a year, support for critically acclaimed classics like the PSP edition of NBA 07 and the PC’s Madden 08 have been savagely shot down. Even the company’s harshest detractors are desperately torn between feeling follow-suit upset and sporting bemused, largely incredulous expressions tinged with an unspoken verbal motif of “what, people still play these games?”.

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Brilliant news folks: XTIVAL’S BACK WITH THE COOLEST LINE-UP YET! That’s an actual quote by the way, not me shouting in all upper-case text. That’s right it’s here again. Not that you need me to remind you, the epoch-shatteringly awesome Xtivals of previous years have made the annual holiday more important to you than your own birthday. Gear up to enjoy GAMES and MOVIES on your xbox. Same as you could yesterday. Only now it’s Xtival which makes it cool and sexy.

See, what they’ve done is taken the words ‘xbox’ and ‘festival’ and mashed them together. It’s this kind of revolutionary thinking that has earned Microsoft the respect and unquestioning obedience of all gamers worldwide.

This weekend on the 27th-29th November why not get yourself a free limited edition avatar shirt (free after standard mobile network text charge of course), a free premium theme, and plenty of music stuff from “the number one artist” you’ve never heard of called Tiësto. Twitter and Facebook are also there. Because before now you didn’t have those.

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The Wii Shop Channel has today listed five Demos for download. Wii-owners can fill their SD cards to breaking point with trials of the following: BIT.TRIP.BEAT, Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: My Life as a Darklord, NyxQuest: Kindred Spirits, World of Goo and Pokemon Rumble.

The demos are available between the 16th November and the 31st January. Whilst the time-limited nature of the downloads is perhaps attributable to concern over limited storage space on SD cards, it’s also possible that the problem lies with Nintendo exercising bandwidth and storage charges to individual developers as per the Playstation Network’s business model.

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During a recent sales call Microsoft answered questions regarding Michael Pachter’s prediction that Xbox Live will be doubled in price. He stated that the subscription would rise from $50 (£40 in the UK) to $100 in the next couple of years. Microsoft’s David Dennis responded with “I don’t foresee a scenario where we’re going to double the price of Live anytime in the next couple months“. (Emphasis added)  IndustryGamers.com has speculated that Dennis is speaking literally and that after Christmas, the prices could go up. This news is worrying for those already struggling to justify, or even be able to afford (such as myself) the hefty annual cost.

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As you may have heard, Sega has been running a poll to let us, the gamer, decide which Genesis game is released next on the XBLA to ‘˜celebrate’ the 20th anniversary of the Genesis. Unfortunately the poll had to be reset due to apparent ‘˜unforeseen circumstances’. Personally, I found this poll a little pointless anyway; I don’t doubt that we will see all these games released further down the line anyway, so the order in which they come seems irrelevant.

Nevertheless the game leading the poll, Earthworm Jim, had to be removed due to ‘˜licensing issues’. The ‘˜licensing issues’ in question would be that Gameloft has announced that it will be bringing the Earthworm Jim game to several platforms, including the XBLA.

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John Carmack of id Software said today at the QuakeCon 09 press conference that the browser-based Quake Live would be introducing a subscription-based premium service to players. It shouldn’t be a surprise to anyone that such a massively popular free to play game can’t support itself on ad revenue alone.

According to VG247′s live-blogging, Carmack also said that Quake Live will probably always have some level of free to play service, expecting the game to be alive in “many, many, many years” assuring gamers that this announcement didn’t mean it was in any danger.

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Hey you. Yes you, gamer. Did you power up your Xbox360 today to be greeted with a new message. A message that conveyed a meaning so potentially devastating to your pitiful and insignificant life that you had to physically stop yourself from gouging your own eyes out with a fork? It talked of scheduled downtime. A possible 24 hours in which you may have to go without any binary heroin flowing through the fire-optic veins of the internet (metaphor, heroin isn’t a LIVE enabled game I’m afraid).

I may be able to help you.

Pre-empting the mass hysteria and/or suicides that will definitely happen on June 16th, I used my superior problem solving skills (think Winston Wolf, but less well dressed) to come up with some activities that may be able to act as a substitute for your horrific addiction.

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There’s no doubt that Microsoft oversold the NXE. While Microsoft claimed that its launch was akin to the introduction of color TV to the masses, it turned out to be far less important. Most of the cosmetic changes are nice and the avatars aren’t the apocalypse-inducing addition that many touted them to be, but there is one feature in particular that I think Microsoft deserves a lot of credit for implementing. That feature is the party system.

I, like most people who have friends that live in other states/countries, was disappointed that the ability to watch a movie with someone over Xbox live was cut before release. However, there was a silver lining. If memory serves, the main selling point of the party system was for watching movies with others or to get together with people to play some Scene It! or to talk about the film they made in In The Movies. I can see how the party system could be fun in those games, but I think that the games that are most positively affected by using the party system are shooters. In my opinion Halo 3, Gears of War 2, and Call of Duty 4 all need this system for their multiplayer to be enjoyed.

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