Rodder and I will be retiring from Squad XP and along with us so will the brand that Squad XP has built over the past 5 years. It was fun to do the show and even up to today I’ve enjoyed every minute of it. But I feel, just like any good series on TV or radio sometimes it just has to move along. I don’t know what I’ll be doing next. Maybe something with video or I’ll just start other projects in my personal life.

If you would like to follow our future projects as well as our day to day lives, our twitter account are available below.

Twitter.com/krockxp
Twitter.com/rodderxp

The site will no longer be updated and our forums will be removed from the Platform Nation list. You can still expect to find Rodder and myself around Platform Nation from time to time.

I want to thank each of you that aided me in my success and I will be forever grateful that you gave us the chance to entertain you each week for the past 5 years.

If you would like to mail your thoughts/reflections or any physical materials, the information for that is as follows.

Mailing Info:

Squad XP LLC
16154 sw 44th LN
Miami, FL 33185

or Via Email ==> krockxp@squadxp.com & rodderxp@squadxp.com

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Our last community event will be the “ Xbox Live Squad XP: Community Playdate”

Info can be obtained here or below.
Squad XP will be online Sunday, June 28 from 8:00 – 11:00 P.M. ET (5:00 P.M. – 8:00 P.M. PT) playing Left 4 Dead. If you’re a Gold Member (if not, upgrade now!), look out for these Gamertags:

• K Rock XP
• RODDER XP
• method in chaos
• DirtyStreetz XP
• jj75 XP

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Best Wishes,

Kelly Rock Gomes // Editor in Chief // GT: K Rock XP // SquadXP.com

Download Now (05/05/2009)

M$ finishes up another round of “Let’s Play Layoff”, we touch on Sega’s E3 lineup, World @ War, Rockband 2 DLC, Metal Gear Maybe, and much more. I even recorded Rodder when he wasn’t noticing and we learn some stuff about him that we didn’t know before. I finally give an answer to that question everyone likes to ask. We even show you why your life really isn’t that bad compared to others. Sit back, relax and enjoy this weeks show.

Mailing Info:

SquadXP LLC
16154 sw 44th LN
Miami, FL 33185

Relationship Email => girls@squadxp.com

Download Now (03/08/2009)

Rodder’s Gone Missing, I fill you in on the new RB2 content that’s coming next week. GTA within a year? Army of 2 gets a new name and you can use civilians while you’re at it. New Bioshock 2 info is released, the Xbox 360 Elite to get pulled from most retailers, I got my car towed, went to Disney and bit my mouth earlier this week. Yes it hurt plenty.

Mailing Info:

SquadXP LLC
16154 sw 44th LN
Miami, FL 33185

Relationship Email => girls@squadxp.com

Just add any of the Staff Members below to your buddy list and play with them on the day they’re scheduled to play some some really exciting, over the top, Gear of War 2 action. And just for playing with us you can win some awesome Gear of War 2 themed prizes!

Wednesday 8pm- 11pm EST
JJ75 XP – Giving away 1 Month of XBL / 1 COG Tag / 1 Gears Hat
Rodder XP – Giving away 1 COG Tag
DirtyStreetz XP – Giving away 1 Gears Hat

Thursday 8pm- 11pm EST
K Rock XP – Giving Away 1 COG Tag / 1 Gears Hat
Rodder XP – Giving Away A signed copy of Issue #1 of the Gears of War comic signed by the writers and artists

Friday 8pm- 11pm EST
Method in Chaos – Giving Away 1 COG Tag / 1 Gears Hat
Aussie XP – Giving Away 1 Gold Lancer download code / 1 Gold Hammerburst download code

Special Guest: Steve Artlip

Check out the full show notes by clicking the link below.

Around the Pool Table:
Steve
- Playing Burnout Paradise, R2 and can’t wait for the Fallout 3 DLC to come out this week.  Also, turned a few people on to Uncharted this month, the newest being Rodder XP from SquadXP.com.
- Watching Burn Notice, Lost, Smallville.
- Dabbled in the RE5 demo.
Bryan
- Playing Ninja Town on the DS.
- In real life, played poker, and won… again.
- Played board game Dominion.
- Watched the X-Games and the NHL All-Star Game.
Wayne
- Playing WOW (crabs?) and Everyday Shooter PSP.
- Watched Slumdog Millionaire.
- Rewired house for cable.
Jonathan
- Finished Fallout 3
- Purchased Valkyria Chronicles (Voting with dollars)
- Watching Burn Notice – Thanks Woody!
Matt
- Playing DS Homebrew.
- Watching Nip Tuck, Flight of the Conchords.

TD Newscast
- PSN – Not so much.
- This is the EA that gamers (who have an infinite amount of time to devote to gaming and believe that a game can only be enjoyed by grinding for endless hours because apparently you shouldn’t be allowed to pay $5 extra bucks and unlock everything to have fun immediately but instead you must earn your right to have fun) love to hate. - Slight emphasis added by Bryan.

The Best Music You’ve (probably) Never Heard: Mogwai – The Hawk is Howling

TD Community
- PN Question of the week – Who will win the Super Bowl?
- Tony – If you could live in any video game, what genre would it be?
- Comment of the week: Woody!

> TDPodcast.com – 046 Help, we reek of USA Network!

Download Now (01/25/2009)

This week we touch on the New Games coming from Ubisoft, Peggle for the XBLA, M$ cuts its workforce and close down GamerScoreBlog. HALO 3 ODST is missing Elites, a kid slaps his mom and hits her with a taco, and I address the whole sitting down to pee scenario. Oh, and Rodder asks one dreadful question. We even tell you how to approach a group of girls, check the clock cause here we go.

Mailing Info:

SquadXP LLC
16154 sw 44th LN
Miami, FL 33185

Relationship Email => girls@squadxp.com

All of us at Platform Nation want to wish our community, a very Merry Christmas. Now here is quick word from some of our podcasts to you.

Target Demographic Podcast: Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays from the Target Demographic. As the most recent addition to the lineup of shows, we really appreciate the support we have received. It has been amazing to be part of a community that we are proud of. There is something undeniably cool about sending a friend a link to a news story from Platform Nation and then mentioning that we are part of that site. As we head into 2009, we are looking forward to getting to know ya’ll a bit more. 2008 was a great year to be a gamer, and it looks like 2009 might be even better; whatever happens it will be fun talking about it!

Squad XP: Hello guys and gals, a year has passed and PN as well as Squad XP has grown significantly. This couldn’t have been done without you, our awesome listeners and our wonderful staff. Thank you for giving us one hour of your week for this past year. Wishing you all a happy holidays, K Rock XP, Rodder XP, and The Squad XP Staff

TQCast: Hello and warmest holiday wishes from TQcast! We hope that this holiday season finds you and yours comfy, cozy, happy and well. If for some reason, you aren’t…well, Techquila has been a much-used and well-known cure-all for all sorts of things = ) Get your game on, and don’t forget to pick up Pixel Junk Monsters this Holiday season. God bless, TQcast

The Fanboys: As a productive and memorable 2008 draws to a close, and the holiday season arrives to warm us all with its spirit of giving and kindness, The Fanboys encourage you to take a moment, pause the video games, and reflect on what’s truly important: someday, you’ll be dead.

The Married Gamers: To all the Platform Nation community, Kelly and I would like to express our heartfelt thanks for you all this past year. We wish you & yours a happy holiday and a very hopeful new year. Also we’d like to extend very special thank you to Steve519 and Hamm3rofGod for keeping Platform Nation as THE premier video game community and also cheers to the other fantastic podcasts in the Platform Nation. God richly bless you all and shower you with His grace. -Chris/Leftybrown & Kelly/Mrs Leftbrown a.k.a The Married Gamers

The Gamers Pub: Hey everyone, B Dazzler and I just wanted to wish everyone a safe and happy Holiday season. We hope all your Holiday wishes come true and may you all be blessed with health and joy this following years. Cheers, GUI J & B Dazzler

On this week’s show we got semi trashed and tried to get through some news stories; we touched on the new avatar system and unfortunately I came home and had a few more beers with dinner and don’t remember WTF else we talked about other than the relationship section and the damn avatars. Any who it was a great show then again I am drunk.

Rodder XP

Mailing Info:

Squad XP LLC
16154 sw 44th LN
Miami, FL 33185

Relationship Questions: girls@squadxp.com

Download Now (09/15/2008)

This week we sit back and enjoy some beers… um scratch that. I enjoyed a beer and Rodder supported me. We talked XBLA. Seems M$ has been hard at work getting us some worthy titles. Burnout gets an update, yup another one. I share some story’s about Absinthe, how ended up @ the post office when I know I fell asleep in a house. Any a bunch of entertaining things. Oh yea, our relationship segement is a good one. One guys is dead and his buddy wants to move in on his chick. How long should he wait??? My friend Liz helps us break it down. We also talk about Rock Band 2 somewhere in there. Enjoy it, stay subscribed and tell your friends. Even if they’re forum buddy’s.

Mailing Info:

Squad XP LLC
16154 sw 44th LN
Miami, FL 33185

Relationship Questions: girls@squadxp.com

Download Now (09/07/2008)

K Rock & Rodder are back. After a Trip to Seattle for PAX and a Study Abroad trip to Peru things are back to normal. Xbox drops in price, what’s up with Nintendo, GH: AS Demo is out, we Talk TV’s, I talk about my hands on with Brothers in Arms, Tom Clancy’s HAWK, Gears of War 2, Need For Speed, and much more. Rodder gets kicked out of Best Buy, I get hit on by a Slore (That’s a half slut, half whore) and yes I kicked BIGVIP’s ass in Madden. Wow, what a busy week.

Mailing Info:

Squad XP LLC
16154 sw 44th LN
Miami, FL 33185

Relationship Questions: girls@squadxp.com