Matt Gerlach : BFME2 Community Summit

Xbox.com BFME2 Community Summit Video

gerlach — Sun, 25 Jun 2006 04:59:00 GMT

Larry Hyrb (Major Nelson) and his video dude dropped by during EA's BFME2 Community Summit up at Microsoft. A good little video to watch.

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A little BFME2 Community Summit Recap

gerlach — Sat, 24 Jun 2006 13:11:00 GMT

Just a little recap. My full coverage will release more towards the release of the game. Not exactly sure when at this moment.

We had about a 3-4 hr game session with just Multiplayer alone (about an hour to 90 mins with single player). Well, it was a blast.

Godfree (Gamertagradio.com, and fellow MVP) and I had about a 45 minute match, in which we each other's equals. He would try to attack me, and I would have enough to fend him off, and vice versa. It wasnt until about 30 minutes later that I used my secret weapon, which shall remain secret. Someone had to lose, and unfortunetly, it was godfree.

I came out victorious! (Here is my frightening victorious pose)

Thanks to Amritz Lay (EA) for the images.

Gamertag Radio coverage of EA's Community Summit!

gerlach — Mon, 19 Jun 2006 14:39:00 GMT

My name is Godfree from Gamertag Radio. Me & other community members were invited to Microsoft Studios for a EA Community event. We were the first gamers in the world that got the chance to play Lord Of The Ring Battle Of Middle 2 for the Xbox 360 2 weeks ago with the EA staff members. It was a whole day event and this was cool for them to invite us and got the chance to get our feedback about the game. What I'm sending you is exclusive audios from the event with the help of Chris from Dreamstation.cc in here you will get to hear our roundtable discussion audio, Peter Moore Q&A with the 8 invited guests about the game, whats next for the Xbox 360 and much more. Also the godfather of RTS games joins us during the event to give us a brief history of RTS, why EA decided to make BFME2 for the Xbox 360 & whats the difference between the Xbox 360 & the PC version. Please check these audios out and give us your feedback.

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Episode #54 - Roundtable Discussion Coola (Xbox365) & Chris (Dreamstation.cc)

Audio Download Link: Episode #54 - Roundtable Discussion feat Chris & Coola

Tonight we have 3 new episodes from the EA Community event that took place at Microsoft Studios in Redmond, WA. EA decided to invite 8 community members to be the first people in the world to get the chance to play Lord Of The Rings Battle Of Middle Earth 2 on the Xbox 360. In this audio I had the chance to speak with some of the members Coola from Xbox365.com & Chris Paladino from Dreamstation.

We gave our feedback about the EA community event, Xbox 360 dashboard Spring 06 update, and more.

Check these sites for the Lord Of The Rings Battle Of Middle Earth 2 updates and show them support!

www.xbox365.com (Coola)
http://forums.xbox.com/ (Gerlach Xbox MVP)
www.gamingsteve.com (Stephen Glicker)
www.dreamstation.cc (Chris Paladino)
www.strategyinformer.com (Jason Ferguson)
www.gamereplays.org/bfme2 (Nate "Arctic Aurora" Kramer)
www.bfme2.heavengames.com (Karen "Kester" Straube)

Episode #55 - Peter Moore Q&A @ Microsoft Studios

Audio Download Link: Episode #55 - Peter Moore Q&A at Microsoft Studios

Day 1 of the EA Community event at Microsoft studios. The first thing we started it off with a question & answer with Peter Moore the head of Microsoft's Interactive Entertainment Business division.

What Peter had to say about the mystery of J Allard out from the spotlight? When Street Fighter 2 will finally come out for the Xbox Live Arcade? Xbox 360 in Japan and much more. Enjoy this 30 min audio and post your feedback at the forums.

Thanks to Chris Paladino from Dreamstation.cc for the audio equipment.

Episode #56 - Louis Castle "The History Of RTS Games"

Audio Download Link: Episode #56 - Louis Castle "The History Of RTS Games"

Louis Castle The creator of the popular Command & Conquer real-time strategy video games joins us right after the Q&A session with Peter Moore. He gave us the history of real-time strategy games and why they decided to make Lord Of the Rings Battle Of Middle Earth 2 for the Xbox 360.

To learn more about Louis Castle head over to Executive biography at EALA.

Finally: I can talk about Battle for Middle Earth 2!!

gerlach — Mon, 19 Jun 2006 05:47:00 GMT

Up a little late here, but just wanted to show you a post I have at the Xbox.com forums.

I went to an EA Community Summit, hosted at Microsoft's Game studios. I really would like to thank Aaron, Raj, Amritz, Louis Castle, Tony Hynes, Peter Moore, Cesar and anyone else that took part in getting this all done. Aaron did an amazing job getting 8 of us there within a 2 weeks notice.

Man, does it finally feel good to talk about this. I have talked with XUG's Rhyze to be able to host my little mini-game review, as well as my recap of the community summit and some questions that I am going to ask Louis Castle (if you have any, contact me).

Here is the questions I took from the Xbox.com community and got answered at the summit.

Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle Earth 2 (Xbox360)

gerlach — Thu, 15 Jun 2006 01:53:00 GMT

Hey everyone,

Just wanted to give a little update. Ill have some coverage of EA's soon to be a hit Xbox360 game, "Lord of the RIngs: The Battle for Middle Earth 2". But, until I get the OK to post my info, you can check out the official site at EA.

Battle for Middle Earth 2

I had an amazing time with the devs, xbox personel, and <not just yet :) >. You guys will get a little more info this monday. Make sure to watch Xbox Users Group. Actually, thinking of it, I will also have info here at my blog. I took some questions about the game to be asked to the developers. But, with all the info they gave us, I was able to answer almost all of them. So, ill probably be posting the info here.

Stay tuned.

Oh, and check out the fun we had the last night.