Greetings Axeheads and welcome to Force Feedback! This is the show where we give you the spotlight so you can Cry Havoc and Let Your Voice Be Heard! This week, the EBA community checks in for the win with poetry, sweet-ass GOG withdrawal, the final word on what the internet thinks of Bobby Kotick, and so, so much more.

Buckle up, release the bees, and hold on to your face, Force Feedback has been unleashed!
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Since the beginning, EpicBattleAxe.com has been dedicated to inciting opinion and debate in our community. We love hearing from you all. Its why we started reading Member Battle Cries on EBC and eventually expanded to include a host of feedback from across the EpicBattleAxe online community.

Today, however, we’re giving YOU the spotlight and launching a new feature podcast dedicated entirely to your comments from around the webs. We asked you to Cry Havoc and Let Your Voice Be Heard and you did, with a vengeance. We’ve felt a little cheated each week forcing ourselves to pick a single comment from the various EBA outlets of discussion. Now we don’t have to. Each week, we’ll be picking several of our favorite comments from the Member Battle Cry topics, the EBA channel on GameTrailers, The EpicBattleAxe Forums, our Facebook fan page, and Twitter to share with all the Axeheads!

So, welcome to the show devoted to your comments, your discourse, and your voice.

Welcome to Force Feedback!
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Modern Warfare 2 is spreading the love on July 6 with its release of the Resurgence Package map pack on PC and North American PSN. European PS3 users will get the DLC, which has been available for Xbox LIVE since June 3, on July 7.

As detailed by Joystiq, the Resurgence Package contains five maps, including two Call of Duty 4 classics:

• Vacant – the wide open Russian office complex from CoD4
• Strike – the urban town surrounded by hotels from CoD4
• Carnival – an abandoned carnival area with a Ferris wheel, fun house and other attractions
• Trailer Park – full of “super tight corridors” and featuring a pool
• Fuel – a “sniper haven” based in and around an oil refinery

Resurgence cost $15 (1200 Microsoft Points) on Xbox LIVE, so we can bank on the same price for PSN and PC.

Will you PS3 and PC users buy Resurgence or is $15 too hefty for some extra space? Current Resurgence owners on Xbox, was it worth the price? Tell us here!

Rejoice for on the morrow…BATTLE! Its time for another edition of EpicBattleCry and this week we check out the next pack of DLC headed to 360 for Modern Warfare 2, mark the date for Alan Wake’s downloadable episode, peruse the resume of Shank’s writer, lament no new space-buddies in Mass Effect 2’s Overload DLC, and welcome Onslaught mode to the console versions of Battlefield: Bad Company 2.

This week we’re all about taking on EA’s Online Pass: pit-fighter style! With the announcement that EA will begin charging gamers who pick up a used copy of Tiger Wood’s PGA Tour 11 (and other titles moving forward) ten bucks to get access to online play, we weigh in on the motives, the money, and what this will ultimately mean for gamers.

The Battle Cry of the Week goes to Call of Duty: Black Ops, Portal on Mac, Fable III, and User Generated Content getting some love with MMO’s
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Activision announced recently that the second map pack for Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 is headed to Xbox LIVE on June 3rd. The Resurgence Pack will contain five maps – three new ones and two remakes from Call Of Duty 4: Modern Warfare. The two remade maps are Vacant and Strike. The three new maps are Carnival, Trailer Park, and Fuel.

Carnival is a daytime map set in a deserted amusement park, which is very open and rife with sniper spots. Trailer Park is more maze-like, with tight corridors and obvious choke points. And Fuel is set in an oil refinery and has two distinct sections that feature both an open sniper area and a close-quarter area.

No word yet on when this will release on the PC or PS3, but when it comes out on the Xbox on June 3rd the Resurgence Pack will cost 1200 Microsoft Points ($14.99). So what do ya’ think? Will it be worth the price of admission? Was the first map pack worth fifteen bucks? Sound off below!

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The next map pack for Modern Warfare 2 is still in development by developer Infinity Ward (what’s left of it anyway) and due for release later this year. No shock there right? This week, during an investor conference call, Activision’s Thomas Tippl confirmed that they publisher is looking to release the DLC “in the back half of the year.”

Once again, it appears the DLC will see an exclusive release window on the Xbox 360, followed by a later release on the PC and PlayStation 3. Pricing for the second round of DLC hasn’t been revealed, but don’t expect Activision to back off that $15 mark. Tippl stated: “the $15 price point has still provided a fantastic value to gamers… we think that has worked.”

Considering the controversy surrounding the controversy surrounding the ‘Stimulus Pack’, and its use of recycled maps, how well do YOU think the $15 price worked?

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Spears down and march them into the river, its time for another edition of EpicBattleCry! In this week’s skirmish, we check out the multiplayer details of Red Dead Redemption, the Modern Warfare 2 Stimulus Pack (and continuing legal battle), Rush’ N Attack: Ex-Patriot, the latest Uncharted 2 DLC, and John Carpenter’s announced involvement in F.E.A.R. 3.

In the main course this week, we discuss 3D gaming’s impact on the the industry. Will 3D be another motion control, or will this technology become ubiquitous enough that it changes not just how games are viewed but also played?

The Battle Cry of the Week goes to MW2 losing ground to BBC2, the long-awaited Attack of the Clones review from RedLetterMedia, the Launch of the all-new EpicBattleTRAX player, and Castlevania: Symphony of the Night.
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Sound the charge and break their line, its time for another edition of EpicBattleCry! This week, we cover the announcement of the announcement (groan) that Cliffy B will be appearing on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon to debut his new game, check out the Spider-man: Shattered Dimensions trailer, ponder the news that The Witcher: Versus is headed to the iPhone, and revel in the recent gameplay vids for Metroid: Other M and Super Mario Galaxy 2.

In the main course this week we talk the state of 2D gaming. With new titles like Shank and awesome 2.5D entries like Shadow Complex and Matt Hazard, is old-shool gameplay making a comeback? Will 2D find a way to coexist with 3D? Can they team up to kill motion control?

The Battle Cry of the Week goes to the recent Modern Warfare 2 stimulus pack, some hands-on time with Mafia II, an awesome performance of Portal’s ‘Still Alive‘, and one of gaming best female characters (hint: she’s from Final Fantasy VII).

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The first DLC for Modern Warfare 2 is headed to Xbox 360 on March 30th and we’ve got some screenshots and deets for you. Of the five new multiplayer maps Bailout, Storm, and Salvage are new while Crash and Overgrown are making a return appearance from the original Modern Warfare. The DLC will set you back 1200 MS Points or $15 bucks when it debuts later on PS3 and PC. Hit the EBA Gallery to check out the five new screens showing off each of the new maps.

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Fire the steel and make ready to bring down the mountain, its time for another skirmish of EpicBattleCry! This week, we’re flying audio-only so we can fit in all the latest from GDC 10. We start with a look at the DLC battle brewing between Battlefield: Bad Company 2 and Modern Warfare 2 (whose first DLC pack was detailed earlier today), then we check out plans for a browser-based Battlestar Galactica MMO, Valve’s official lineup of games coming to the Mac in April, and the Dead Space 2 ‘Get Dismembered’ contest.

With GDC 10 now just a memory, we look at two of the biggest announcements of the show. First up, the beleaguered OnLive is finally launching in June; we chat about the potential for game services and whether OnLive can deliver the goods. Next up, we take a stab at the latest generation of motion controls with the PlayStation Move. Is Sony’s new wand just Wii HD, or a paradigm shift in how we play games?

The Battle Cry of the Week goes to the apparently non-existant Gran Turismo 5, the too-late-for-its-own-good F1 2010, the people having way too much fun writing the Bodycount press release, and Ubisoft’s Uplay-Points system for giving us what games used to just include.

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