Jadakiss and 50 Cent Sqush beef

Thisis50.com did a recent interview with jadakiss where he reveals he holla'd at 50 and they kicked it, I for one can tell you i am happy about this, two of my favourite rappers acting like grown men and putting aside their differences, it's a good move for hip hop right now for two new york legends to be unified. check out the video below.

The Greatest Superhero Ever

The tournament has finally come to a close and our members have voted for their greatest superhero....

Thanks to everyone who took part in the tournament and to those that helped out. I would like to start a new tournament but only if people are willing to vote more this time, therefor I will leave it up to public demand.

TrailerTube: Fast And Furious (2009)

This be Fish, and after its been awhile doing anything useful on here (sorry!) here to bring you the trailer to the new Fast And The Furious movie. This Film sees the return of Vin Diesel with (pointless) Paul Walker and (the very muchly hated by me) Michelle Rodriguez...and the other girl prettier than her...umm..JORDANA BREWSTER! thats the one...being all back to where it all began...




Does have the feel of the first film all over again mind you, in my view, looks pretty good hopefully. Have your own opinion? sign up and click here to discuss

Worlds Hottest Battles 3 - Serius Jones Vs Murda Mook

One of my favorite street battle rappers murda mook vs the fight klub champ (famous for beating jin) serius jones...this was definatly a hot street style battle so check out all three rounds.


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This week

* Killzone 2 the best multiplayer experience in the industry
* $199 360 Might destroy PS3 in the United States
* PS3 Eyepet will Nintendo have a answer for this?
* Ratchet: Quest for booty review (Must Buy)
* Net Flix Arrives on PS3
* And So much more

Every Mortal Kombat Fatality

The Game vs Bow bow in Madden

So the coverage on this humorous challenge continues, here bow wow trash talks his friend The Game some more. Remember Epicnet will have full coverage on this...Shout out to worldstar hip hop for the video.

Mortal Kombat vs DC Universe - Why SO sERIOUS?

Heres a close look at the new Mk vs Dc game dropping this autum, Check out the jokers moves and his Fatality...Can you say "First Day Cop"? i am defiantly buying this.

The Game talks about jay z, g-unit and Eminem?

Seems like this guy is in the news alot lately, i guess it must be for the album hype, but basically game has been going at Jay z lately, so in this sit down he gets asked various questions about his beefs, check it out.

Music Ecast - Beef Special Part 2

Here is the second installment of the Music Ecast beef special, this one is alot more street so hope you enjoy. Ill also include part 1 here for you to be more convineint.

Music Ecast Beef Special Part 1

Music Ecast Beef Special Part 2


you can add feedback on the forum here as always.

BowWow Vs Game Madden Beef Heats Up

So i know you saw the post a couple days ago with The Game laying a beatdown in the new Madden 09 game...well So did bow wow, and then he set a challenge to game for a game of madden with a 100k stake. Well below you can see The Game's response followed by Bow wow responding to that, Check it out.



Now heres bow wows response



No doubt you'll see more of this madden beef as the days go by, and epicnet will have full coverage.

Music E-cast Episode 10 - The Beef Special Part 1

Here is the Special Beef Episode of the music E-cast. You can listen here and discuss this episode on our forum here

This is part one of the beef special, Part 2 will most likely drop tomorrow or the weekend.

Member of the month - July to August

This month it goes to one of our newer members.........

SHYCHLO


Members Profile

Reason for award - Since signing up she has contributed to a good couple of things such as the greatest superhero ever tournament (vote now btw) and also she is responsible for the EFF(Epicnet Fantasy Football) league which she also runs, she definatly deserved some recognition this month so here it is. Dont forget to check her myspace also, you may enjoy her music.

Month highlights - Giving frequent input in the superhero tournament, voting every round, setting up and running EFF, contribution to various topics.

dont forget, you can add this tag..

Member of the month - 19th August 2008

to your recent award list in your profile if you wish to.

Trailer Tube - The Godfather 2

Today on Trailer tube we have the godfather 2 video game trailer set for release in 2009. check it out and remember you can discuss this trailer here

Epicnet Arcade

Epicnet now has an arcade built into our forums, you can play a selection of flash arcade games and compete for the top points for bragging rights on our forums. The only catch(if you can even call it one) is you have to be an epicnet member, which only takes 3 minutes to do.

Once your all signed up then visit the arcade here

more games will be added soon.

The Game Plays Madden

shout out to KonsoleKings and analoghype for the vid... Its always cool to see all these cool celebs playing videogames to remind us that we are NOT nerds lol. Foreal though Gaming is universal so you cant stereotype us!

HipHopGamerShow 8/17/08 PS3 or 360 Who will come out on top this fall?

This is my friend HipHopGamer check him out, he has a show every sunday at thebitbag.com.

TrailerTube: Body Of Lies

Fish here, showing you new trailer/first look of Ridley Scott's (ace director) new Spy-Thriller movie 'Body Of Lies' starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Russell Crowe



Story sees the tale of Leonardo DiCaprio’s CIA agent turning to old hand Russell Crowe for help – arrived a mere few weeks ago, but things have already moved on.

As always, to discuss, click here.

Epicnet Fantasy Football

So the SUN is making you pay to play this game huh? well us wonderful epic net people are doing our own fantasy football but for free, the only catch is you cant win money here i'm afraid(If i was wealthy i would happily give away my money).

Just check out the thread here and get involved...

Just remember we mean Soccer with this one :p

EMTV - G Unit

welcome to this special g-unit edition of EMTV(Epicnet Music Television) here we have lloyd banks and tony yayo talking some smack about other rappers and the new animated g-unit video.

Tony Yayo and Lloyd Banks on BET Now


G-unit Close to me

Greatest Super Hero Ever - The Finals

We have now reached the finals of the greatest superhero ever tournament, it has come down to Spiderman Vs Ironman. Who is your pick? Vote now in this thread.

The round will be up for 10 days so tell all your friends to come along and vote to make this one a good one. Remember, based on the full outcome of this tournament we may follow up with a greatest supervillain tournament right after.

SKEPTA Jumps on Wileys Success

Now Skepta has been one of my favourite UK Mc's for a minute as well as wiley, and we all know Wearing My Rolex has been beating up sound systems for months now. But now it seems wileys once very close friend (im sure they've settled theyre differences by now though) Skepta has decided to jump on the rolex hype with this new cut called the ROLEX SWEEP. Check it out and let us know what you think by responding in our topic here

Fish's nice simple message...

Fish here to say....have a good week....=]

Also, to those getting their A Level results, and possibly College results this Thursday (Me being College results myself), wishing you the best of luck and your achieved destination from then on..

But, if you're happy than I am, which isn't very difficult, then enjoy the upcoming days =]

that is all...

T.I. speaks 50 Cent, Shawty Lo

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Double R.I.P

This Weekend the black community lost two icons, Bernie Mac and Isaac Hayes.
I would like to give a big R.I.P to them both and urge everyone to remember the work that these two talented entertainers put in.


R.I.P

EMTV

Welcome to Epicnet Music TV, where we bring to you some of the Old and New music(mostly hip hop based) videos/interviews/freestyles on the world wide web. A new addition to our many blog segments.

lets get to it....


Klashnekoff - Murda


Cipher- Papoose, Lupe, Styles P * freestyle *


Juelz Santana interview - Gives his opinions on camron

Trailer Tube - Saints Row 2 - The Brotherhood

Grand theft auto's biggest competition returns for its second title which drops October, check out this trailer and remember you can discuss this trailer at our forums here

Buddens Goes at Prodigy

Joe Buddens fresh of his underground success with mood muzik 3 is back on wax with his wits. In this latest joint named Blood on the wall he aims his barrels at Mobb Deep's Prodigy. Now remember a couple months back when prodigy was talking mad reckless and he named buddens as his whackest rapper? Well it looks like that is what warrented Buddens attack. You can download the track here at epicnet from our media section here


dont forget to give your opinions on this one.

Trailer Tube - Skate 2 Debut Trailer

Skate 1 was cool, but the tony hawk games biggest rival returns for another grind.
This time you can get off your board which is cool.

Check it out..



you can discuss this with out lovely forum people here

Swiffs Retro Review - Streets of Rage

So playing mgs5,cod4,gta4 and rainbow 6 Vegas 2 non stop i got a little bored and wanted to go back in time to some of my favorite games of the past. there are many, the Sonic games, Mario, Street fighter 2, Batman, Herzog zewi, theme park, Golden axe and more. But my ultimate favorite retro franchise is streets of rage. So i decided to play all three of them through to the end and then review them for all you nice people out there
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STREETS OF RAGE

"What was once a happy, peaceful, productive city, full of life and activity, has fallen into the hands of a secret criminal syndicate. The leader of the syndicate has somehow managed to keep his identity a secret. The organization soon absorbed the city government (anyone can be had if the price is right). They even had the metropolitan police force in their back pocket. Looting, random violence and destruction are rampant. No one is safe walking the streets, day or night..."

As the chaos continued at full strength, three young police officers tried to establish a special attack unit. They were repeatedly turned down by their superiors, most of who had been bought by the organization or were too afraid to make a stand. One day, when they could no longer stand by and watch their city being demolished, they quit the force!'"

"Adam Hunter, Axel Stone and Blaze Fielding decided to forego their careers in legal law enforcement and put their lives on the line. They are without weapons, but each possesses great hand-to-hand combat abilities. Take them into the heart of the city and battle the most dangerous wave of bad dudes and chicks ever assembled. Make the city a place where people no longer have to walk the Streets of Rage!"

This game is a true classic. To start of with you have to choose one of three characters. Axel, Adam or blaze, each with their own strengths and weaknesses. Axel the strongest but with the lesser reach, blaze the fastest but least strongest and Adam with the furthest reach but the slowest of the three. my personal favorite in this is Adam.

This game being the first introduced the basics of the streets of rage combat functions, the A button is your special(which calls for a special police attack force to fire bombs at your opponents), B is to punch, and if you repeatedly tap the button you do a special combo and C is to jump. You can do jump kicks by pressing c and b together, and also grab hold of enemies to do grapple attacks. its really simple but its how you use these set of moves that counts.

graphically the game is everything you can expect from a side scrolling beat em up on the sega genesis/master system. the scenery is nice, not much else i can say here.

The game does feature a classic soundtrack composed by Yuzo Koshiro, It fits in nicely with the formula of the game.

Gameplay wise the game is challenging(if you play on normal or upwards) every boss after the first two are tough and you need to use your special attacks wisely and then come up with a combat strategy that will secure you a victory without loosing too many lives. You will be smiling once you manage to defeat all the bosses. But Then on level 8 you have to fight all the FUCKERS again before reaching MR X who isnt too tough, its just the fact he has a gun and whilst your trying to take him out all his goons will be after you too. Which makes these games better played on co-op with a friend.

overall i give this game a 4/5, it was a classic game that started a nice franchise of games that is still being demanded another game even now.

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STREETS OF RAGE 2

One year had passed since ex-police officers Adam Hunter, Axel Stone and Blaze Fielding had broken the Syndicate's hold and destroyed it's leader, the mysterious "Mr X". Peace had returned to the streets, people were moving back to into the once vacant city neighbourhoods, and the city had returned to prosperity.

On the anniversary of the Syndicate's destruction, Adam, Axel and Blaze met at their favorite nightspot to commemorate the occasion and catch up on the latest news. Both Axel and Blaze had moved out of the city; Axel working as a bodyguard, and Blaze teaching dance.

Adam had rejoined the police force, and moved to a small house on the edge of the city with his kid brother. The three celebrated until late in the night, and made plans to meet at the same place next year.

As he was planning to check out of his hotel the next day, Axel received a frantic phone call from Eddie "Skate" Hunter. He had arrived home from school to find the place a total ruin. He'd called the police department, but nobody there had seen or heard from his brother since early that morning.

Both Axel and Blaze rushed to Adam's house. Windows had been shattered, furniture smashed. Stuck on the remains of the splinted front door was a photo: Adam in chains lying at the feet of a man they knew only too well.

Adam's disappearance marked the beginning of the nightmare. Criminal elements swarmed out to reclaim the streets. Gangs roamed the parks, and bomb-wielding bikers made the roads deadly to travel at night. Beatings and lootings took place regularly and in broad daylight. Chaos reigned in the city, far worse than before.

Axel and Blaze tried to contact their old friends at the force, the ones who'd provided backup with heavy artillery. But everyone they knew had either been fired or transferred elsewhere. This time the Syndicate was in complete control and the two ex-cops were on their own.

Assisted by Adam's brother Skate and Axel's friend Max, Axel and Blaze set out to rescue their friend and destroy Mr X once and for all. Standing in their way is the nastiest collection of punk and brawlers ever assembled. Add to that a force of professional fighters specially groomed to take them out of the picture!

As one of the 4 young vigilantes - or together with a friend - you'll battle with your fists and feet, and attack with whatever weapon you come across, as once more you walk the Streets of Rage!

So, Adam is now gone from the roster due to being kidnapped and skate and max are introduced to the frey. they are two very interesting characters. skates is wicked if you know how to use him right and max has one of the most powerful moves on the game(the atomic drop) but max is slow as shit, and skates can be weak at times. Skates is one of my favorites in this one but my ultimate favorite has to be Axel.

Combat wise this game improved, your special attack is way better(i hated calling the cops on the first one), i much prefer each character having their own special attacks. But using these special attacks have a catch however. They will cause your life meter to decrease every time you use them, so use them wisely. also you can do a charge attack by tapping forward twice and B.

Graphically the game looked a lot better, characters were more defined and the scenery was more colorful and detailed. they defiantly did a good job using those 16 bits to their fullest potential.

The gameplay felt a lot more welcoming too, each enemy you attacked also had their own life meter(previously in streets of rage one only you and the bosses had life meters). more weapons were introduced, the bombs and the katana (the most powerful weapon). And also a wider catalog of enemies. however this in my opinion is the easiest of all three games, even on hard.

The soundtrack was to me the best out of all three games id say it would be even worth a download.

though i remember loosing hours on this game, therefor i must give it a 5/5.

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STRETS OF RAGE 3

The crime boss, Mr. X, may have been defeated twice, but he is not down and out yet. He has started a research company called RoboCy Corporation to act as a cover for his business activities. The world's best robotocist, Dr. Dahm, has been brought in to help him create an army of realistic robots to replace important officials from the city. With the replacements in place, Mr. X plans to run the city using a remote control device. His criminal organization, The Syndicate, has strategically placed bombs around the city to distract the police while the city officials are dealt with.

Dr. Zan discovers what the research is really for and knows the Syndicate must be stopped. He contacts Blaze Fielding with the details of The Syndicate's plan. Blaze quickly contacts her old comrades Axel Stone and Adam Hunter for a task force to bring down The Syndicate once and for all. Axel quickly joins the task force, but Adam can't make it and sends Eddie "Skate" Hunter instead.

Packed in a 24 megabit cartridge, this time the game boasted many new enhancements.
The game had a more complex plot also, with end of level cut scenes and multiple endings.
It was also the HARDEST of the three games combined.

Axel, Blaze and Skate are still part of the playable characters but this time max is replaced by Dr Zan, a robot. I despise this character however because he's too generic. my favorite this time has to be a toss up between blaze and skate. Also theres a couple hidden characters to come by, such as Shiva(hold down B after you beat him until the next level begins) and Roo(defeat his master and don't kill Roo, easier said than done as this bloodclart kangaroo will box you to shit constantly). however whenever i played as these two hidden characters they felt useless, Shiva has some nice attacks but not enough, and Roo is kinda whack to me, not just that but both hidden characters cannot pick up weapons.

The games combat improved even further, now your characters could sprint with a double forward tap, and each character had their own special attacks with certain weapons as well as the normal A button special attack. Using the A button attack was alot simpler in this game as well, as you had a timer in the middle of the life bars, and when it says "OK" your free to use your special attack without any decrease in your life bar.

the gameplay was much more intense, instead of just beating people up, throughout the game you were given certain other objectives such as rescuing the chief of police before he is poisoned by gas. The game also introduced many twists in the plot, some of them are game ending/frustrating. and if you want my advice DO NOT even think about playing on easy, because its not even worth it, you get half a story which ends with MR X pwning your players like "MUAHAHAH YOU DIDNT JUST KILL ME, IT WAS JUST A ROBOT, YOU HAVE TO TRY HARDER NEXT TIME MUAHAHAHAHA" THE END! So sorry this is a game where you have to put in major skill to get rewarded, because that last boss in the game that results in you getting the best ending(provided that you beat him within the time limit) IS A FUCKING HAIR TEARING, PAD THROWING, VEIN POPPING OUT OF YOUR FOREHEAD MOTHER FUCKER.

However the difficulty of this game is what always draws me back, so i will gladly give this game a 5/5

Written By Gary Swaby/Swiff Epics
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So thats the end of this Retro review, i just wish they would revive this series and do it well, but we all know what Sega are like now don't we. (the rise and fall of Sega gaming e-cast special coming soon)

The Greatest Super hero Ever - SEMI FINALS UP NOW

the semis are up now, so go vote.

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this time we will leave the round up for 7 days, plenty of time to spread the word right?

The Greatest Superhero Ever - Round 2 NEED VOTES

we are nearing the end of round two and need more votes. whats up with all you sleepers out there? round one was a good turnout but now we're slacking with round 2. lets get it popping with some votes, its a real good round with some tough choices to make, but dont let that put you off.

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