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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Robert Welkner from COIN-OP TV at the Spike TV’s Scream 2009 Awards red carpet! Interviews and coverage with celebrities Dave Navarro (Musician/Host), Dileep Rao (Avatar, Drag Me to Hell), Josh Hutcherson (Spider-Man, Red Dawn), Amanda MacKay and Geoff Keighley (GameTrailers TV) and more!  (Photos: BlankLogo Photography)

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Robert Welkner from COIN-OP TV interviews Mike Laidlaw – Lead Designer for the upcoming game Dragon Age: Origins from EA. Mike discusses the story, characters and what big things fans of Bioware should expect from this games!

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TheStream.TV celebrates 3 years of live and interactive broadcasting in Oct 2009 and what better way to help celebrate then to have a 24-hour Streamathon!  Hosts and friends of the network were encouraged to participate and host their own show or 2 hour block of streaming entertainment.  Donations made during the 24-hour live broadcast will benefit The Epilepsy Foundation.  COIN-OP TV LIVE host Robert Welkner will be joined by TV Personality and Pro-Gamer StarSlay3r for two hours Friday night (10/16/09) from 2:00-4:00 AM PST.  The two will be playing video games like Street Fighter IV and Rock Band against each other and fans watching live.  Stay up all night with the team behind www.TheStream.TV network for this great and exciting event!

http://www.thestream.tv (click on the ‘live feed’ tab)

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Naughty Dog created a spectacular, yet flawed, game in Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune (released in 2007). While the graphics seemed to take full advantage of the PlayStation 3 hardware, most critics had issues with texture pop-in and enemies that were able to take more bullets than a brainless zombie.

Honestly, I felt that the combat was atrocious, which made me rage quit the game within the first three hours. The feeling of never ending spawning enemies that can take multiple bullets to the head was enough for me to break my original Sixaxis controller. Good thing I had the money to upgrade to a Dualshock 3, right? At the end of the day, Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune never reached its full potential.  What should have been a cornerstone in the PS3 library (and bragging rights for all Sony fanboys) was cut short due to these limitations.

Uncharted 2: Among Thieves arrives this week (Oct 2009) and once again Sony fans have the opportunity to rejoice.  It’s the story of Nathan Drake, a fortune-hunter with a shady reputation and an even shadier past who is lured back into the treacherous world of thieves and mercenary treasure-seekers.  So far, everything I have seen of the sequel gives me hope and issues I had with the first game seem fixed. What concerns me about the sequel is all the positive press and reviews UC2 is already receiving.  I haven’t seen this much hype for a game since Grand Theft Auto IV, which I’d say, is a good thing for Uncharted 2.

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Bar Fights 2 – put on by Gootecks and his followers – went down over the weekend as a unique and special tribute to Street Fighter IV.  Not quite a tournament but more of a ‘showdown’ between the top Street Fighter IV players hailing from the East Coast (specifically Empire Arcadia out of NYC) and the West Coast team featuring a collection of players from Southern California.  COIN-OP TV was present for the first Bar Fights, which also took place at Jake’s in Pasadena and featured mostly West Coast only players like Ed Ma and Combofiend (both on the Bar Fights 2 West Coast team).

Jake’s Bar/Billiards was revamped to accommodate over 500 spectators and media for Bar Fights 2.  Contestants played SFIV sitting atop pool tables with screens mounted around the entire building and was hosted by Dogface and Gootecks.  There was also a video feed that was live streaming for hecklers of all ages to participate.

After a few exhibition matches and some ‘warm up’ battles between fans and the pros – the main event commenced.  A crowd of us formed in the VIP area – ready and anxious for an all out coast-to-coast brawl.  Unfortunately, the cheers and crowd noise quickly fell calm and silent after the East Coast team took almost every match with only West Coast’s Alex Valle providing a dent to the mix.  New York’s Empire Arcadia came to town with the ‘eye of the tiger’ and went home as winners.  The West Coast team is skilled and talented and we can only expect an even bigger match up once Gootecks and the gang gear up for Bar Fights 3.

Related links:
Gootecks on COIN-OP TV LIVE episode 312: http://www.thestream.tv/watch.php?v=1603
Marn on COIN-OP TV LIVE episode 317: http://www.thestream.tv/watch.php?v=1795
Justin Wong on COIN-OP TV: http://coin-op.tv/?p=1409

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Hailey Bright has helped make COIN-OP TV LIVE a fun and entertaining show and this video is a collection of our friends and fans wishing her the best and congratulating her on making it thus far!

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