Funny Nintendo Wii reviews from BlackNerdComedy this time with Spyborgs, Deca Sports 2 and Dragon Ball: Revenge of King Piccolo brought to you by COIN-OP TV.

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Justin Chon plays ‘Eric’ in all three Twilight Saga films and recently starred in the indie short ‘Turbo’. Join Rob & Hailey as we delve into the upcoming film and his career and take questions from the live audience at home! Also, interviews from Hudson Entertainment, Nintendo Wii reviews from Black Nerd Comedy and more!

Watch the episode here: http://www.thestream.tv/watch.php?v=1831

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Did you know that Assassin’s Creed II (from Ubisoft) lands on store shelves on Nov 17th?  With the sequel just around the corner, where is all the hype?   Holiday season is the best time to be a gamer with multiple big games coming out in just about every genre.  Marketing teams across the world are all competing for ad space on television and the Internet.   So, why have we not heard and seen more of this highly anticipated sequel?

An easy answer to that question would be the economy.  Ubisoft could be betting on word of mouth and riding the success of the first game. The sequel promises to be bigger in every way than the original and Ubisoft has no problems throwing money into promotions.  Earlier this year, GameIndustry.Biz reported that in an investor’s conference call Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot said, “Assassin’s Creed 2 will cost 20% more than the original.”  Also, it should be noted that in a separate call it was mentioned the pre-orders were up 80% over the original.  I guess when you already have that kind of guarantee then you can lay back and focus more on the product.

The first Assassin’s Creed was a game that did a few things right and a few things wrong.  I loved the way you controlled Altair and the combat was simple yet fun. It was a beautiful game that depicted the Holy Land exactly how I would imagine it in my mind.  Some frustrating points were that the story was ludicrous, the missions were highly repetitive and it took me about a month to successfully pickpocket the first time. It was like the folks up in Montreal spent most of there time creating crowd physics and the world and then decided to give you goals at the end.  A better way of putting it would be that they created a sandbox and forgot the sand.  Of course, the folks working on the sequel promise more variety, more weapons and let us not forget that Ezio is BFF with Leonardo Da Vinci.

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COIN-OP TV interviews Martin de Ronde, one of the Founders and Director of the OneBigGame video game charity initiative.  OneBigGame was founded in 2006 by a number of videogame industry veterans, who were looking to use the creative and collective power of the videogames industry for other purposes than making a profit.  This interview also takes an exclusive early look at the game CHIME which is the first title release from OneBigGame.

We got some hand’s on time with CHIME after the interview and were highly impressed!  The game looks and plays like a block puzzler – think Tetris or Lumines but with musical elements.  A bar scrolls across the screen from left to right and it’s up to you to match puzzle pieces and cover areas on the grid.  The more area you cover – the more the song and notes will play.  There are various challenges to the game and feature artists like Moby, Paul Hartnoll and Philip Glass.  OneBigGame is off to a good start with a fun and smart casual game in CHIME and best of all – proceeds go to charity!

Visit http://onebiggame.org for more info on getting involved with OneBigGame.

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Hailey Bright (from COIN-OP TV) teamed up with BusyGamer.com for a Public Service Announcement to benefit the Victoria Adopt A Pet Foundation.  Proceeds from the upcoming ‘Warriors Never Die‘ festival will go to help the foundation and bring awareness to their cause.

More info here: http://www.adoptapetvictoria.com

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Infinite Bits went down over the weekend in Miami, Florida and our friend of the show AnHonestFraud was kind enough to share some of his photos with us.  The event featured gaming communities like SFX-360, Destructiod, GameWars and more.  The event was a mix between arcade classics and also more recent console games.  Tournaments were held for games like Super Smash Bros Brawl, Marvel Vs. Capcom 2, Halo 3 and Street Fighter IV.  There was a special guest appearance from Walter Day and Billy Mitchell (The King of Kong) who spoke on stage and took photos with fans at the event.

Check out more here: http://www.infinitebitsconvention.com

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Video blogger and Internet celebrity Keith Apicary joins us in the studio. Famous for his video blog contributions to ScrewAttack.com – this gamer has a knack for getting in trouble all while spouting clever video game history trivia. Join Rob & Hailey for a special Halloween episode as they risk the madness of letting Keith in the studio!

Watch Episode 319 here: http://www.thestream.tv/watch.php?v=1845

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2009 ushered in a return of the fighting game genre – though many would argue that it never went away.  Regardless of who thinks what – we had big fighting game releases this year that began with Street Fighter IV (Capcom), BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger (Aksys Games), King of Fighters XII (Ignition) and finally wrapped up this week with Tekken 6 from Namco Bandai.  COIN-OP TV has followed the progress of these games with interviews from all the major publishers.

The So-Cal Tekken community came out in full force to help celebrate the release of Tekken 6 with a launch party and tournament put on by ACTiveGamersLA, MadCatz, Starbucks and SDTekken at the HAX hangar.  Fans got a chance to play the game before release, snag freebies and check out the awesome Tekken van.  A tournament went down later in the evening with the action being streamed live from the team at uFrag.TV.

All parties involved admitted that the event was strung together last minute which led to some interesting ’sharing’ of the venue with prospective NBA basketball players trying out on the far end of the hangar.  Overall, Tekken 6 looks amazing and we can’t wait to get some quality hands-on with the game.  MadCatz gave away some SFIV Arcade TE Sticks as part of the prizes and we were able to land one as well thanks to Mark at SDTekken.com! (Photos: BlankLogo Photography)

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Our friends at Tubefilter.tv put on a special Hollywood Web Television Meetup in Los Angeles this week with a panel and mixer that specifically addressed live Internet streaming content.  The panel was moderated by Marc Hustved (Editor-in-Chief Tubefilter News) and featured speakers Hailey Bright (Co-Host COIN-OP TV LIVE), Brian Gramo (Founder TheStream.TV), Drew Baldwin (Producer The Streamy Awards), Tyler Crowley (Mahalo Daily) and Bismarck Lepe (Founder Ooyala).

A variety of topics were touched upon including which website to use as a streaming platform, monetizing a show, how the quality of a show can have an impact on the viewer and clever ways for advertisers to brand live shows.  The panel was streamed live on www.stickam.com which gave viewers at home a chance at asking their own questions to the panelists.  Overall the Meetup helped verify what we at TheStream.TV have known for over three years now – that live streaming Internet TV is here to stay and a viable way of providing entertaining and interactive content.

Live Broadcast archived here: http://stickam.com/viewMedia.do?mId=186196241

Tubefilter.tv also did a feature on COIN-OP TV LIVE last week on their site here:
http://news.tubefilter.tv/2009/10/14/meetup-countdown-coin-op-tv-live-pwns-the-live-stream/

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