It’s Friday, that can only mean one thing. Evil Avatar Radio! But alas, during all the shuffle last week with the server outages and whatnot, you may or may not know that the last Friday show of EvAv Radio was broadcast last week.

That’s right, Evil Avatar Radio hosted by Philip “Kefkataran” Kollar is no more. No more late Friday nights in the chatroom listening to Phil and Amanda talk about Draygons and Horse Carcass. Phil is moving sidways and taking on more responsibilities at 1UP.

Fear not Evil Avatarians! Our newest Red and host of In-Game Chat, Scott “Psykoboy2” Benton has picked up the reins of said horse carcass and rode it, and the Evil Avatar Radio name, to Monday nights.

So what ever shall we do on Fridays? Us gamers SURELY can’t go OUT. We definitely can’t be social in public. So instead I bring to you, EvAv Arcade Fridays!

What is it? Every Friday night starting at 10PM Eastern we’ll be playing some specific games over Xbox Live and Playstation Network with the Evil Avatar Community.

So this week we’ll have 4 games lined up to play:
Bomberman Live (XBLA)
Carcassone(XBLA)
Spyglass Board Games (XBLA)
Calling All Cars (PSN)

I’ll be keeping the chatroom up, so if you need to try to get in a game, be sure to head over there and ask around. I encourage people to use it, or even just hang out on Friday organzing ANY kind of gaming activity.

Episode 67 of Evil Avatar Radio will be recorded LIVE tonight, and you can tune in and participate. Just head on over to THIS LINK and start streaming the radio station. The show will run for two hours starting at 10:00 PM central.

Kicking off with news tonight, special guest-hosted by EvAv Editor-in-Chief bapenguin. We’ll be hitting all the big topics from this week in video game news. After that we’ll open up the phone lines so you can call in and join us for game releases and discussion of tonight’s theme: Best Video Game Endings! Spoiler alert!
There are three simple ways to participate in the show, even when Evil Avatar is down. First, toss e-mails to evilavatarnews@gmail.com at any time to get them read on air. You should be sure to join us in the Evil Avatar chat room for great discussion throughout. And you can call in any time after our news segment by dialing 320-589-6355.

All this AND a surprise twist ending! Don’t miss the fun!

I just got word from the big man that we are officially moving to a new host.

All I can say is…thank fucking god.

Yes we are down. Yes we planned to be down tonight. No this outage is not the result of the planned outage. Talk about ironic.

Updates as they become available.

Update 7/27/2007 @ 8:11AM EST: Our hosting provider is being a bitch as usual. We still aren’t up. It looks like we are finally going to jump ship to another provider.

I’ve decided to start my behind the scenes E3 coverage today with some news.

As you may or may not know I’ll be attending the brand new E3 Business and Media Summit this year representing Evil Avatar.com. The ironic thing of this is the exclusive nature of the event this year, being invite only. While in the past the staff at EvAv.com had a bitch of a time getting official access.

The first event of the show will be Microsoft’s Press Conference on Tuesday July 10th. I just confirmed my registration for the event, and they decided to ask some odd questions. Confirming involved telling them my favorite game, favorite achievement, favorite band and my gamer zone. Odd. But the bottom line is I’m going.

Next up is Nintendo’s Press conference on Wednesday morning. The big 3 Press Conferences are Invite only (like the event) so I’ve been trying to gain access. Nintendo responded with a “We’ll do our best, but won’t know until closer to E3″. Um…ok…gee thanks.

And then last of the big 3 is Sony. Sony. Dear Sony. What the fuck are you doing? I’ve sent out no less than 5 Emails to 4 different people without even the courtesy of a fucking response. Either they don’t have their shit together, or they just don’t give to shits about EvilAvatar.com. Ah well.

The good news this years is James Young aka Fitbabits from EvAv will be coming as well. This should help us provide better coverage. I’m looking forward to finally meeting him, hell we’ve been working together for over 3 years now.

More as it becomes available…

During a recent discussion over at the Avatar, Mark Rein (Epic Games Vice-President) hinted that we could be seeing user created content on the XBox 360.

But let’s not forget we always said UT3 was coming to PC. Part of what makes the Unreal Tournament games great is the amazing variety and quality of user-created content. Sony gave us every indication from the start that their network would be an open system and that they would welcome mods and user-created content whereas I’m sure you know Xbox Live is a closed system. We have been working with Microsoft for a while to try to get the ability to support user-created content on the 360. We now have a pretty good indication that we’ll be able to do most of what we want to do in that area so we’ve decided to bring the game to that platform.

Sounds like good news to me. My guess is once Live Anywhere gets going, there will be a nice pathway from PC Level Editors/Mods to the XBox 360. I’m also going to venture out on a limb and say Mods will only be available for Gold members. The rumors are abound that with the spring update we’ll be seeing a dedicated XNA section in which members of the Creator’s Club can upload their project. Who knows, you might even see a game from this little penguin.

We’re back!

Hit the link above or to the left!

It may be till saturday night till Ev Av is back online. I’ll be sure to keep you updated. Needless to say, our hosting company is a bunch of monkeys.

We are still working out some kinks with the hosting provider. Hopefully soon. Appreciate your patience.

-bap