Even more bad news: The forums crapped out. Again. The frustration level is high so I feel your pain. I'm going to get this resolved soon and if not, we might have to switch server hosts because this is plain getting ridiculous.

Good news? A new podcast should be going up soon or should be going up now so check your iTunes or the podcast link to the left. We got a good one based on Summer Movies with some special guests on there so do tune in! Sorry for the inconvenience and we'll get the forums up soon.

-C Tan

Good news first: the forums are back up.

Sorta bad news: the old forums are still not working. Not so worried about them, though. In fact I think we will temporarily lock out the old boards since I think that's where the problem with both of them originated.

Bad news: we didn't have time to do a podcast last week. We are shooting to record one tonight and post it sometime tonight or tomorrow, then hopefully we will be able to record another one sometime during the week to post by the end of the week so we can catch up.

This is, of course, if we have a topic for the following podcast. If we don't then we will have to push it back until next week anyway and hope we can come up with a topic. We'll see, since we probably have ideas floating around that we never had time to work on.

-RAPJR-

First order of business today is letting you all know that we have pinpointed the cause of the malfunctions in the forums. Hopefully the hosting team will have our database back up and running shortly and we will be able to remedy the situation. At that point we will resume normal forum activity and hopefully we won't have any more big hiccups like this one.

Second, we would like to announce a winner in our KR:AI Encore contest, forum user ANIME will be taking the prize of 1600 Microsoft points for completing all the achievements. Congratulations!

We will have our next podcast out later this week, so keep your eyes peeled!

-RAPJR-

It is my pleasure to announce we are back in the podcast groove, I have put up #2.9 and we are going to be releasing #2.10 later this week.

Unfortunately, the forums are being iffy and half the time aren't even coming up, there is apparently a problem when it tries to connect to the database. It started happening (at least as far as we could tell, it may have started before then) and I don't know when it will be resolved. Hopefully soon. We'll keep you guys posted.

-RAPJR-

Hey folks, it is my pleasure to announce that I have uploaded the first version of the Karaoke Revolution Presents: American Idol Encore FAQ. This FAQ covers the Xbox 360 version, though most of it should apply to the Wii (except online/achievements) and PS3 (except achievements, when it comes out) versions of the game as well. I believe the old guides (specifically the KR:AI guide, when it's completed, but the KRP guide will likely be close) will provide you with most of the information you need about the game for the PS2 version.

Enjoy, and let me know if you have any questions about the FAQ or if you find any errors.

-RAPJR-

For those of you who don't check the forums, we'd like to let you know about our KR:AI Encore Achievement Contest. There will be two prizes:

1) Xbox Live Gold Subscribers: The first Xbox Live Gold Member to collect all 28 achievements in KR:AI Encore will win a prize of 1600 Microsoft Points.
2) Non-Gold Xbox Live Members: Those who don't have a Gold membership and therefore can't play online will not be left out. The first non-gold member to collect the 22 offline achievements (all but the World Tour, Global Star and Grudge Match achievements, for playing and winning the ranked ones) will also win 1600 Microsoft Points.

If you have a forums account, all you need to do is post here with your Xbox Live Gamertag if you've completed the requirements for the contest. If you don't have a forum account, you can either go through the creation process (be sure to put in that you have a contest entry so we can expedite the process) or just send an email to the site email address with the subject "KR:AI Encore Achievement Contest" and your gamertag in the body. We will announce the winners here when the time comes.

For more details click the link below!

KR:AI Encore Achievements Contest!

Good luck!

-RAPJR-

You heard it, folks, this week is the launch of Karaoke Revolution Presents: American Idol Encore on the PS2, X360 and Wii. Unfortunately for those of you looking to get it on PS3 you'll have to wait another month, but that just gives you an excuse to play with a friend for now!

We don't have any new information, but you can check out the interview with Keith Matejka for the information he was able to share, and we'll be bringing you a review of the game the week following the release. I will also be working hard on my FAQ for the game once I get it, probably on Wednesday.

Keep an eye out and be sure to pick up the game this week!

-RAPJR-

As rapjr previously reported on the boards, we got the KR: AI Encore interview with Keith Matejka up! The link below will hopefully answer some questions as to the gameplay modes and what to expect online plus a little challenge from Keith on XBL or PSN The link is below leading to the forums and post any comments or whatever (yeah, yeah, yeah, I didn't ask for a song list, you can post how stupid I am for not asking about that too...) and thanks to Michael Shelling from Konami and of course, Keith, for taking the time to help the site out! Heck, this could be an exclusive as far as I know because no other site has an interview as far as I know. Anyways, I'll stop rambling and you can read the interview!

Keith Matejka Interview for KR:AI Encore!

-C Tan

I don't know how it happened, but somehow the 12/12 podcast never went up. Or it went up and something that happened with the site made it die. Regardless that podcast, along with the podcast we recorded for 1/16, are now up on the XML, the podcast page, and the forums.

We hope to have a much more regular schedule of recording podcasts this year, but due to our busy lives with college and work and such we can make no guarantees. I'm hoping, though, that we won't have another break of longer than a couple weeks between podcasts. I'm also hoping that we will get at least 20 podcasts before the end of the year. (Year being from when we started Season 2 until that date in 2008.)

-RAPJR-

We got some good news. The FTP is finally working (I'm not going to air an grievances here) so the podcast should be up pretty soon. Plus we are getting pretty close to the final release date of KR:AI Encore so look for a lot of info to come through pretty soon. Check out the forums because you never know who's talking on there and we'll do what we can to keep up with the information flow because more than likely, it's going to get heavy in the coming weeks. Stay tuned and listen to the podcast!

C Tan

The good news: As of this newspost, we have a new podcast recorded and ready for release.

The bad news: As of this podcast, we can't log into the FTP on the site because the information was changed and we're now locked out until we get the new info from the domain company.

We'll keep you guys posted.

-RAPJR-