I was joined this week by for­mer TNA super­star Austin Creed aka Con­se­quences Creed as well as OCRe­mix judge Larry Oji. We dis­cussed Austin’s wrestling career and also picked his brain on wrestling in gen­eral. Austin being a fan of OCRemix.org had a lot of ques­tions for Larry as well. Larry being a wrestling fan brought his knowl­edge out on this episode and asked some really great ques­tions. It made my job eas­ier hahaha. Nonethe­less Austin being a gamer like myself had many fun and mem­o­rable sto­ries to share relat­ing to gam­ing and of course wrestling.Between being a gamer, pro wrestler and col­lege grad I appre­ci­ated Austin’s hum­ble­ness and respect for the wrestling busi­ness. He is a knowl­edge­able and well spo­ken ath­lete and a great ambas­sador to pro wrestling. MTR wishes him luck on his upcom­ing trip to Japan

This month is OCRe­mix sup­port month and as such I ask fel­low read­ers and lis­ten­ers to stop in to OCRemix.org and donate what­ever you can. OCRe­mix pro­vides great remixes and albums for absolutely free. Any help you pro­vide will be appreciated.

Austin is wrestling across the coun­try and can be seen at the fol­low­ing venues.

In addi­tion Austin has the oppor­tu­nity to appear in a movie based on the comic book Bad Kids Go To Hell. You can vote for him to have a part in the film by going to the bad kids go to hell site. You know our guest loves gam­ing when they dress up like this:

You can fol­low Austin on twit­ter @AustinCreed and also check his site as well. Larry Oji is also on twit­ter @LarryOji and of course his site is OCRemix.org

Tonight I will be joined by Max Geiger, Geoff Desmoulin and Dr. Armand Dorian to dis­cuss the newest sea­son of the Dead­liest War­rior. Dead­liest War­rior returns to Spike on April 20th with new combatants,technology and more abuse for Mr. Gel Torso.  The crew will be call­ing in around 11:30 pm est. Stop by the chat if you have any ques­tions or com­ments. Given that I am under time con­straints for this inter­view please note that I will not be tak­ing calls for this segment.

Check out some of the video footage that has been released thus far.

Who will be the Dead­liest War­rior?
Tune in Tues­day April 20th at 10pm est on Spike

Once again, the BTR issues con­tin­ued to plague My Take Radio. Luck­ily, it wasnt as bad as before and I was able to sal­vage the show. I was joined this week by Kevin Baird from Video Game News Radio & Don Ander­son from Tum­blin With Tum­ble­weed. We ran a marathon for this broad­cast due to sound issues and time con­straints, but over­all it was a great appear­ance by Kev & Don. Can’t wait to have them back. Here are some of the things that were discussed.

MMA

• Roger Huerta sign­ing with Bel­la­tor Fight­ing Championships
• Cung Le’s future opponents
• Jose Canseco MMA fighter?
• WEC PPV
• UFC 114 matches
• Jake Shields UFC bound?
• Mousasi resign­ing with Strikeforce

Wrestling

• WWE Diva trades her wrestling boots for MMA broad­cast­ing duties
• WWE Hall Of Fame inductees
• WWE Raw & TNA Impact news
• Linda McMa­hon Sen­ate run
• TNA Lock­down

Games

• Rock Band DLC
• DLC and it value
• DS2?
• Ratchet & Clank &Resis­tance on the 360?
• COD:MW Map Pack
• iPad’s impact on the portable gam­ing market
• Arkham Asy­lum 3-D
• Exter­nal USB dri­ves on the 360 finally

Movies

• Cap­tain Amer­ica cast­ing news continues
• Titanic 3-D and more Avatar
• Fright Night Remake?
• Smurfs cast­ing news

 Plugs

• Videogamenews.com
• Tum­blin With Tumbleweed

This weeks episode was hin­dered by tech­ni­cal dif­fi­cul­ties on the Blog Talk Radio side. How­ever, the new mic & PC helped improve the over­all qual­ity of the show. In addi­tion to the sec­ond appear­ance of Haydn Dal­ton & Han Rand­hawa from Dark­siders, here are some of things that were dis­cussed on Episode 34:

MMA

• Upcom­ing UFC events were discussed
• Slice vs. Mitrione
• James Toney

I am sure I left some stuff out, but con­sid­er­ing it’s 2:30 am I am enti­tled to a mis­take or two. HAHAHA.

Wrestling

• Upcom­ing Raw Guest Hosts
• Mon­day Night War rants

Video Games

• Dark­siders
• GDC News
• Playsta­tion “Move”
• NPD sales data
• Final Fan­tasy 13 sales 
• Frog­ger on Facebook
• DJ Hero & Rock­band DLC
• Playsta­tion Home Update
• EA Sports MMA
• Hakan in SSF4

Movies

• Zack Efron as Spidey ?
• Mar­vel cast­ing news
• Chip­munks 3-D
• Corey Haim
• Katy Perry, Quentin Taran­tino & The Smurfs?
• Oscars talk

This week’s plugs:

• GirlGamer.com
• MMAValor.com
• MMAHotstuff.com
• Darksiders.com
• Haydndalton.wordpress.com
• VGNRadio.com
• ClevelandSportsRadio.net
• Bornstubbornradio.com
• OCRemix.org
• MMAJunkie.com
• 411mania.com
• Filmdrunk.com

I started this weeks episode pretty tame but my com­po­sure slowly unrav­eled over the course of the broad­cast. Here are some of the things that were discussed

MMA

• UFC on VS was discussed
• UFC PPV events
• Andrei Arlovski returns to Strikeforce
• Strike­force on CBS
• James Toney signs with the UFC and will trained for MMA by Juanito Ibarra.
• UFC will run an event on 4/17 to com­pete against Strikeforce

Wrestling

• Umaga’s cause of death revealed
• Awe­some Kong’s TNA status
• Upcom­ing RAW guest hosts
• Recently released WWE superstars
• Impact becomes the “Whole Dam Show” on 3/8

Video Games

• Heavy Rain is # 1 in the UK
• Activi­sion vs Infin­ity Ward
• Splin­ter Cell Con­vic­tion Xbox 360 bundle
• Sony acquires Media Molecule
• Halo Reach — Multiplayer

Movies

• DC movie plans
• Max Steel becomes Stretch Armstrong
• Tron:Legacy a trilogy?
• My thoughts on Zoolan­der 2 & the Arthur remake star­ring Rus­sell Brand
• Trans­former movie news
• Abra­ham Lin­coln: Vam­pire Hunter– WTF!!!
• Gilligan’s Island : The Movie
• Iron Man 2 on Kim­mel after the awards on 3/7
• Doo­gie Howser and the smurfs ?
• Green Lantern in 3D
• Marco Polo the movie?

Spe­cial thanks to Don Ander­son from Tum­blin with Tum­ble­weed for his awe­some call with the late Dud­ley Moore

This weeks plugs

• GirlGamer.com
• MMAValor.com
• MMAHotstuff.com
• Darksiders.com
• Haydndalton.wordpress.com
• VGNRadio.com
• ClevelandSportsRadio.net
• Bornstubbornradio.com
• OCRemix.org
• MMAJunkie.com
• 411mania.com
• Filmdrunk.com

Next week : Dark­siders returns to MTR!

Com­ing off the momen­tum of last weeks show there were tons of things to dis­cuss. MMA talk cov­ered UFC 110 as well as some talk about the Frank Mir inci­dent. Wrestling news cov­ered WWE NXT as well the Elim­i­na­tion Cham­ber PPV. Gam­ing talked was rage filled as usual with gripes about the state of online play on the PS3 and the Wii. Also gave my impres­sion on the DSi XL and the impact it has on the e-reader mar­ket. Last but not least were the movies news for this week. Another lengthy dis­cus­sion regard­ing comic book movies and the right and wrong facets of Hol­ly­wood filmmaking.

Here is some media for a few of the items that were discussed

The Dishwasher:Vampire Smile trailer

Super SF4 exclu­sives –Credit Joystiq

You can lis­ten to this episode in the player or visit BTR

This weeks plugs

• OCRe­mix
• Girl­Gamer
• MMAValor
• MMA­Hot­stuff
• VGN Radio
• Born Stub­born Radio
• Cleve­land Sports Radio

On tonight’s episode I was joined by H.B Duran, aka Angel Thanatos from GirlGamer.com. Angel fit in well with the MTR audi­ence with her sharp wit and insight. She broke down the girl gamer stigma and shared her thoughts on X-10 and other gam­ing news that were dis­cussed. Later in the broad­cast, we were joined by Joanna aka Joylia, a col­league of Angel’s, who con­tributed to the game and movie dis­cus­sions as well.

GirlGamer.com is not your aver­age gam­ing web­site. In lurk­ing around the site for the last two weeks I learned that they have a tight-knit, wel­com­ing com­mu­nity that is not cen­tered totally around the girl gamer mantra. They are knowl­edge­able and have a firm grasp at what gam­ing truly is. I rec­om­mend you stop by the site and see for your­self what they have to offer.

Here’s a lit­tle back­ground on Angel: When Rac­coon City Police found young Angel that day, no one could have imag­ined that this scrappy lit­tle girl in a Tanooki suit would some day destroy the entire city. She grew up to love EZ Cheese and shot­guns and was loved by all. After a waf­fle break­fast gone ter­ri­bly wrong, zom­bies infested the land and the locals gave her another name…Thanatos. But who is she, really? Some say she is the for­bid­den love child of Bat­man and Won­der Woman, but one thing is for sure — the power to move cheese with one’s mind is none to be reck­oned with. Fit­ting in no where, Angel wan­dered from town to town; finally liv­ing in Silent Hill until a heated argu­ment with Pyra­mid Head over a poker game sent her storm­ing out. Years past. Hid­ing from the cops in Lib­erty City and yearn­ing for adven­ture, she took a temp job on the USG Ishimura but for rea­sons the lawyer says she can­not dis­cuss, she is liv­ing com­fort­ably off of the resti­tu­tion. Finally, a mir­a­cle hap­pened. One day, the good folks at GirlGamer.com found Angel scar­ing employ­ees at the local Game Stop and rather than send her back to live with the evil Ewoks, they gave her a job. Angel Thanatos is now the Lead Edi­tor and Com­mu­nity Man­ager of GirlGamer.com, still scares peo­ple and rants about Pyra­mid Head being a no-good cheater.

Now that you got a good chuckle, here is her real bio: Angel Thanatos (aka GG Angel Thanatos) began play­ing video games when the sound­tracks con­sisted of “boops and beeps” and you had to use your imag­i­na­tion to see what the hell you were mov­ing around on the screen. She has had the plea­sure of watch­ing the video game indus­try grow from its infancy, and Angel has played and/or owned just about every con­sole ever made. Although she spe­cial­izes in First Per­son Shoot­ers and any­thing Silent Hill, Angel Thanatos still plays a vari­ety of genres…NONE of which involve cook­ing or ponies. Angel is the Lead Edi­tor and Com­mu­nity Man­ager of GirlGamer.com; a defin­i­tive eZine and online com­mu­nity for women to game. She is also an artist, actress, screen­writer, singer/songwriter and all-around smart ass. You can fol­low her on Twit­ter at @ggAngelThanatos.

As you can see, she can tell a great story but knows her games. If you are on twit­ter say was­sup or look for her on GirlGamer.com .

My Take Radio would like to thank Angel & Joanna for stop­ping by. They are always wel­come at MTR.

This week was guest free and back to the usual lunacy that goes on for 2.5 hours every week. I dis­cussed the new ini­tia­tive in place by devel­op­ers to adjust game dif­fi­culty on the sly as well as the reper­cus­sions that has on gamers. The TUF Finale was dis­cussed at length as well as the futures of Brock and Hendo.  I also dis­cussed the pass­ing of for­mer WWE super­star Umaga.

Video game & movie seg­ments were a gem as usual. My venom and rage was directed at Spider-Man 4’s rumored cast­ing choices.

If you didn’t get a chance to lis­ten live head over to Blog Talk Radio or Lib­syn and of course Itunes for your MTR fix.

Art con­test entries will be posted in the com­ing days on the MTR Face­book fan page as well as here so check back in a few days.

This week my guest was Rachel Fred­er­ick who owns & runs MMAHotstuff.com. She shared her insight on the sport of MMA as well as her thoughts on some of the upcom­ing fights. If you are a woman who is an MMA fan and wants a fem­i­nine per­spec­tive on the sport with­out all the fluff then MMA Hot Stuff is the site you need to check out.

Rachel is cur­rently work­ing on two other sites that are cur­rently in the infancy stages  in addi­tion to MMA Hot Stuff. The 1st site is ringsidesocialite.com which much like MMA Hot Stuff looks at the sport of pro­fes­sional box­ing from a woman’s per­spec­tive and edu­cates female fans on the “sweet” sci­ence. The other site is mmasocialites.com which cov­ers MMA but from a new unique and insight­ful per­spec­tive that allows fans to peer into fight­ers day to day lives.

Please stop by her sites and show your sup­port. Also look for her on twit­ter  for MMA Hot Stuff as well as MMA Socialites & Box­ing Socialite

If you haven’t heard this episode go to blog talk radio and down­load it or look for it on Itunes.

This week I had the oppor­tu­nity to inter­view Haydn Dal­ton (Lead Designer) & Han Rand­hawa (Art Director) who worked on the upcom­ing Dark­siders game. I had the chance to play Dark­siders at Comic-Con a few months ago and from the 1st few min­utes of game­play I was hooked. Between the great art from Joe Madureira and the great game­play I knew this game was going to be special.

Haydn & Han gave lis­ten­ers a  look into the inner work­ings of game devel­op­ment as well as insight into mak­ing Darksiders.

Dark­siders will be released on 1/5/2010. Make sure you pick it up!!

If you would like to keep up to date with Dark­siders news and info head over to the fol­low­ing sites

Haydn Dal­ton–Haydn’s per­sonal site which has great Dark­siders art­work and news

Darksiders.com-The Offi­cial Game Website

Han Rand­hawa–Cur­rently under con­struc­tion but once com­pleted stop on by and show your support.

My Take Radio proudly sup­ports THQ & Darksiders.

Have a look at some of the great art and gameplay:

Comic Con Photos-Gameplay Footage