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Treyarch has let it be known that, one of the most anticipated patches in CoD history, v1.2 for CoD:WW will probably come out sometime in early February.

In this week’s BASH, we talk about the patch and the community reaction to the news.

On to talk about recent events in and around the CoD Community, including the long-awaited patch from Treyarch, are: Rudedog from fpsadmin.com and Garetjax from codtv.tv.

This is the second part of a two-hour show we did last week.

In addition to the patch news, we talk about the status of the CoD modding community in light of the fact that Tally (and possibly Bullet-worm) are heading for the exits.

Finally, we talk about iD’s new Quakelive effort and as usual…all the the things that Valve apparently does right.

In fact, we should make a drinking game out of this episode. Down a beverage every time someone mentions Visioneers or Valve.

Have fun listening!

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This is the first part of a two part mega show we did on the weekend.

In this episode, we invited three shoutcasters from one of eSports’ powerhouse casting companies: e-rev.tv to come on and talk about eSport shoutcasting.

E-Rev will be providing the shoutcast coverage for the CoD4 GotFrag tournament that will be starting up soon and on to talk about that and themselves are:

The lovely and talented Melissa, aka SparkZ, the inimitable Conor, aka jus7addwater and one of my personal fave’s Kevin aka Starbuck!

As well, Ted Ottey from CEVO came on to tell us about the next CEVO season and dropped some hints about the fact that the premiere CoD tournament in the North America may be walking away from the DAMN mod.

In addition to our special guests we have BASH roundtable stalwarts Garetjax codtv.tv and Rudedog from fpsadmin.com.

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The first live show of the year was a biggie!

We had a huge group of folks on BASH this week.  Along with our regular roundtable of CoD modder PST*Joker from mycallofduty.com,  Rudedog who helps out server admins across the gaming spectrum on his site at fpsadmin.com and Garetjax of codtv.tv, we welcomed two more folks on the program.

First on the show was Chris Remo, editor-at-large from Gamasutra. Chris, who stars on his own podcast idlethumbs (idlethumbs.com), has written a satirical spoof of IW’s own fourzerotwo’s rant against Activision producer, Noah Heller. The song is called Stop (Doing Interviews) and is simply hilarious and has gone viral in our community.

You can download the song at idlethumbs.com. It’s pure genius.

Chris tells us why he wrote it and has some insight into whether the Director of Communication for IW may have been disciplined over it. Chris also discusses the politics of the gaming scene in 2008 with our roundtable.

From GotFrag.com, we welcomed Jeff (jeFFY), who is now fully in charge of the CoD section over there. He comes on to tell us about the GotFrag.com CoD4 Tournament (contrary to what we say in the podcasts, late word is that registrations are now extended to Jan. 12 — so you can still apply).

As well, Jeff told us about his tribulations at getting the message out and it seems not everyone in the community wants to listen. Jeff is new in the community but full of energy and we expect great things over at GotFrag.com. In an open and frank discussion with the new section head, we discuss some of the reasons why the huge e-gaming site has upset some of its long time CoD4 patrons - and what he’s doing to turn things around.

If you have a CoD4 team, seriously consider the GotFrag Tournament as it has high visibility in sponsor circles and a high turnout could positively affect our community! The roundtable then gets in the act and we discuss the year 2008.

What was the best community mod in 2008? The  most innovative?

Which CoD4 teams were the best in CoD4? And who was MVP?

What was the event of the year?

The best FPS of 2008?

…all this and more on this mammoth episode!

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For the first webcast of 2009, we have with us to talk about his imminent foray into the rough and tumble world of eSports journalism is Michael Fleming aka peawok, the Owner and Editor in Chief of the brand new esports site:

insideresports.com

insideresports.com will launch on January 3rd, 2009 and will attempt to become the foremost authority in eSports news and entertainment.

Michael tells us all about insideresports: its mission, its scope and its goal.  We also ask him what he thinks of eSports journalism in North America. Is the cynicism we read about day after day hindering the growth of competitive video gaming?

Find out what he has to say about CS and let it be an object lesson to those of us interested in Call of Duty!

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