The Bastards are all about "The Power of Love."

This week the B3 crew share their thoughts on this year's Grammy winners, King Baby Duck talks about Fistful of Mercy and Mr. Cuse gives a hip hop recommendation in the form of Madcon. Blueonic brings his opinion on the new demo for Moto GP 10/11, and King Baby Duck looks at the demos for LIT, Chronos Twins DX, Chick Chick Boom, Killzone 3, Back To The Future: Episode One and Hard Corps: Uprising. Finally Anvil and Mr. Cuse share sports duties.

The videocast:

A new Bastard joins the crew...

This week the B3 crew welcome Mr. Cuse to the team, as they chat about the massive week in sports, share their thoughts on the Super Bowl and the crazy week on the Bruins' rink. Plus King Baby Duck & Anvil share their thoughts on the recent album by Far East Movement, and Anvil tells you why you should run to see Widow Sunday, Tight Rope and Absence, but avoid Treachery, Smite the Fight and Martyrs & Madmen like the plague. Mr. Cuse give his opinion on the game Kinect sports, and King Baby Duck and Blueonic say bye-bye to three gaming franchises and one beloved company.

The videocast:

With Blueonic out for the week, Nenya steps in and fills his big shoes.

This week the B3 crew share their thoughts on the new My Chemical Romance album Danger Days: The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys, and Anvil & Nenya give their take in the week of sports. Demos of Fluidity and Super Scribblenauts are looked at, and King Baby Duck puts the free Xbox 360 games Dorito's Crash Course and Harms Way under the microscope. Finally the trio reviews the new Jolie/Depp film The Tourist.

The Bastards are quite joyful this week, and it has nothing to do with the holidays. (That episode's in two weeks.)

This week the B3 crew excitedly chat about the live return of two of their favorite bands, and one of King Baby Duck's favorite anime series is hitting the big screen. Anvil shares his thoughts on sports, and the trio talk about the movie The Warrior's Way. The video game nail'd is discussed more, and K.B.D. gives his two cents on the demos The Undergarden and Funky Lab Rat, Blueonic reviews the game Reload, previews the upcoming Battlefield: Bad Company 2 Vietnam and he and K.B.D. look at the demo for Unbound Saga.

After taking the week off the Bastards return refreshed and anew. Plus a lost member returns...

This week the B3 crew review the demos for Saw II: Flesh & Bone, And Yet It Moves, ThruSpace, Bit.Trip Fate and Jett Rocket. The guys take a look at the new movie Faster, and Shades Blackflame gives his opinion on the film Entangled. Finally Anvil delivers a big hunk of sports for all our jocks out there.

The videocast:

The Bastards know how to take the pain, too.

This week the B3 crew discuss their thoughts on this year's Lovesac Speedrun Classic, as well as the new album from Serj Tankian. Anvil gives his weekly sports report, and the guys review the film Circle of Pain and the anime Desert Punk.

The video version:

The Bastards bring you another cure for the daily blues.

This week the B3 crew give a couple Oh For Fuck's Sakes about ticket scalpers, officers under attack and the rise in suicides in teens. The guys review the new film It's Kind Of A Funny Story, and Anvil gives his take on the new Karate Kid remake. The week in sports is covered, and Blueonic & King Baby Duck look at the demos for Comic Jumper, Castlevania: Lord of Shadows, Alien Breed: Impact, Hydrophobia and Topatoi.

The Bastards are visited by a slightly intoxicated Panda in this extended episode!

This week the B3 crew (with guest Pandalicious) give their 2nd annual report on the Topsfield Fair, sharing the pros and cons of the goings-on at the grounds. Blueonic gives his view on the new Arcade Fire album The Suburbs, and King Baby Duck & Anvil discuss Roger Waters performing The Wall at the TD Garden.

Anvil presents his take on the week in sports, and the B3 crew take a look at the demos for EA Sports MMA, Lara Croft & The Guardian of Light, Enslaved: Odyssey To The West and ArcaniA - Gothic 4. Finally Pandalicious reviews The Social Network, Anvil takes a look at Abandoned (giving away the entire ending) and the guys wrap it all up with the movie Beatdown.

THE VIDEOCAST:

The Bastards are men about town in this episode!

This week the B3 crew discuss the week in the sports, the new movie The Town and give their two cents on the recent demos for Quantum Theory, NBA 2K11, TerRover, Legend of the Guardians and FIFA 11. Plus they tackle an Oh For Fuck's Sake! dealing with the anti-smoking campaign at Salem State University.

Videocast below (with bonus Oh For Fuck's Sake!):

Oh, how the Itis fails to keep a Bastard from speaking one's mind.

This week the B3 crew discuss the new XBOX Live game Monday Night Combat, the demos for Tom Clancy's H.A.W.X. 2 and NHL '11, the week in sports and movie reviews for Vampires Suck and Behind Enemy Lines: Columbia.

The B3 members try their best to record after a day of celebrating and drinking. This will explain their raspy vocals during the episode.

This week the Bastards put their two cents on the demos for Medal of Honor, DeathSpank, Limbo and Death Track: Resurrection, as well as the full game of Skate 3. Plus Anvil gives his take on the week in sports, and the Bastards review the movies Universal Soldier: Regeneration and Undisputed 3: Redemption.

How bad is The Last Airbender? Really, really bad!

This week the Bastards discuss the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, The Last Airbender, Battlefield: Bad Company 2 Onslaught, Lego Harry Potter: Years 1-4, Crackdown 2 and the week in sports.

When the Duck's away, the other Bastards take the reins!

This week the B3 crew discuss the week in sports, the movies Knight and Day and Unthinkable and an "Oh, For Fuck's Sake!" about the opposite sex!

If Wll Forte offers you some vegetables, kindly decline them.

This week the Bastards give an "Oh For Fuck's Sake!" to those Silly Bandz & overage breast-feeding, as well as review Birdy The Mighty: Decode, MacGruber, Splinter Cell: Conviction, the new demos for Tiger Woods PGA Tour 11, Rocket Knight & ModNation Racers and the week in sports.

This week the B3 crew discuss the new movie Robin Hood, the week in sports, the demos for Fat Princess and Iron Man 2, APB, Sage Francis, B. Dolan, Free Moral Agents, 21st December and The Failure Initiative.

I was chilling out with Anvil Saturday night, and we sat through three fights that were pretty damn good from Strikeforce. We were waiting for one that was one of the most anticipated fights that Anvil & I have dreamed to happen:  Gina “Conviction” Carano VS Cristina “Cyborg” Santos.

This has been almost a year in the making, due in part to both Showtime Elite XC falling out because it wasn’t getting enough publicity, along with Cyborg having an ankle injury. But Strikeforce rose to the occasion to take on the fight and hold the first MMA Women Championship. This match was the first time women have gotten to fight five minutes for each of the five rounds. This is the greatest thing I can say to happen to this sport, in hopes that there will be more women to come into the MMA fighting scene, along with giving them more classes to fight out like how the male contenders have it set up. I think that these two women fighters have set the landmark for women kicking ass and taking names.

With that I want to say that this fight started out intense, had me at the edge of me seat.  Sad to say it was only the first round, and it all went to shit for Gina Carano. It was like watching the fight where Kimbo Slice got knocked out in the first round in less than 30 seconds, except this was in the last seconds of the first 5 minute round. I know Gina is a strong person, and her record before this loss was 7 and 0. It was insane to see all her other fights that she had gone through, as if she had no way to lose. Plus with her not being able to fight for a whole year, she spent more of her time training.

For all those who've seen Gina Carano, she isn’t just another pretty face, she’s one that can back up the ass-kicking with her boxing/Muay Thai fighting style it is like an unstoppable force. With what I saw with Cris Cyborg, she has a background of Brazilian Jujitsu and that’s it, I believe, but with seeing how she fought it seemed like it was more of a cat-fighting style. I mean for fuck's sake she was clawing at the face. If you watch a video of it (which I will put up with this article when I find it) you can see as clear as day that Cyborg has her palm right over Gina’s face and was scratching into her. If you looked at Gina’s face after the fight was over you could see the indents from the nails of Cyborg.

If the referee was paying attention he would have brought the fight back to the middle stage, and either warned Cyborg or taken off a point.  After that then Gina would have been able to be hold her off till the next round.  I saw that Cyborg was close to running on empty, and didn’t seem to know how to fight. I was watching videos of how she was fighting in the other matches, and it was fucking bad how she would fight. Fists flying everywhere but yet no control. Hell I would hate it if I ended up in back alley with this woman.

But I have to say that there is something to Cyborg. I think she has way too many male qualities to her. I’m not hitting on the fact that she’s ugly, but for the way she moved and acted in the fight. A song comes to mind with the lyrics of “Dude Looks Like a Lady,” but all I can say is there is no way she could be considered a woman. But that’s just me, love me or hate me, but take a look for yourself and try not to cringe.

With that the fight ended up with Gina getting grounded and pounded into a TKO or Technical Knockout by punches, due in part because she wasn’t able to fight back. The referee stopped the fight just at the horn, which Anvil and I had the feeling that he heard the buzzer first and stopped the fight that way. But I think Strikeforce seriously needs to take a look over on these setups of how they ran this fight, and to watch every move from each angle on how Cyborg did some fucked up things in the match. But all in all I have to say it was a good fight, if at all possible, and I don’t know what Gina will want to do after this.  Maybe she'll get into some other fights with Strikeforce and kick some more ass, and then move up the ranks yet again to come up for a rematch and fuck up Cris Cyborg to obtain the title that is rightfully hers.

Side note: Why the fuck doesn’t UFC have a women fighting class? Is its owner Dana White not able to see the publicity that you can get from those matches? If White would open that up I bet that he could obtain Gina Carano, and that would mean that Gina would rule the UFC; until they can dig up another manish looking woman to fight her.