My man Dan Amrich — former senior editor of GamePro, Official X-Box Magazine, World of Warcraft Magazine and a ton of other journalistic endeavors of the videogame-kind (spanning well over 16 years!) — has just been hired by Activision as their brand-spankin’ new Community Manager! Congrats, Dan!

One of Swords, his nom de Web, has just dropped Episode 001 of the brand new podcast featuring music by ya boy. Check it out here:

» One of Swords Podcast 001: The Saga Begins

Also, be sure to check out:
• Joystiq Interview: Dan Amrich of Activision community site One of Swords

I’ve been pretty hyped on Capcom’s upcoming HD remix of Street Fighter for Xbox Live and Playstation Network.

Capcom just sent out a press release announcing the game’s long-delayed, but finally cemented November 26th release date. But what caught my eye especially was mention of the Street Fighter Underground Remix album featuring the likes of Qbert, Hieroglyphics, DJ Toure (which I am assuming is Toure from Hiero), Zion I and others. Here’s a quote from the press release:

Capcom will be releasing a direct-to-download music album of hip-hop tracks inspired by the Street Fighter series. Street Fighter® Underground Remix will feature the musical flavor of artists such as DJ Qbert, Hieroglyphics, Redman, Oh No, DJ Toure, Mistah FAB and Zion I. Each artist has produced a Street Fighter tribute track that will be free of charge and exclusive to the PlayStation®Network when Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix launches.

A bit of a bummer it is for the PSN only (unless you own a PS3). But pretty cool nonetheless.

Here’s the link to the Capcom Press Release.

I kinda bugged the other day when I turned on my Xbox 360 to play some Gears of War 2, when who is staring back at me from my dashboard but Murs??!

From the screenshot, it appears you will be able to play against Murs over Xbox Live on November 16th, 2008 between 7PM – 9PM EST, in Rockstar Games’, Midnight Club Los Angeles (which just so happens to be the city Murs is from).

I did a website with Murs a few years ago. Dude is super talented, extremely hard-working and mad focused. If you’re not up on some Murs, git crankin.

And check out the latest album from Murs, Murs for President in stores now.