Monthly Archives: April 2008

People are playing GTA IV

The title of this blog post might be the understatement of the year.  If you look at our overall game stats you can see GTA IV is easily the most popular game yesterday and about 30% of our members played it on day 1.  It was also the second biggest day for a game ever, read more »

5,000 is a lot of GamerchiX

Filed under: Fan stuff Over on Xbox.com, TriXie posted a GamerchiX enrollment update announcing that, to date, their group of GamerchiX has reached the 5,000 member milestone. Now, that’s a lot of chiX … man. This group of gaming females is now (though, they’ve always been) a force to be reckoned with, with members spanning read more »

Halo Wars April update talks strategy, music

Filed under: News The monthly Halo Wars update for April is up. Unfortunately, there isn’t much news concerning gameplay (sorry folks, no playable Covenant or Flood yet), but that won’t stop us from detailing what was there. What little info there was regarding gameplay centered around the cancellation of Ensemble’s internal tournament. The tournament is read more »

GTAIV broke UK sales record says Chart-Track

Filed under: News According to Chart-Track (as reported by gamesindustry.biz), Grand Theft Auto IV has handily shattered UK game sales records in several categories. First of all, the game broke overall first day sales records, with a whopping 609,000 copies sold. This tops the previous record held by Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, which sold read more »

Would You Rather … The Other Guys Edition

Filed under: Fan stuff, Polls In our continuing effort to bring you fresh and interesting content, X3F presents Would You Rather … a weekly feature that asks you the hard questions. The point? If you had to choose one or the other, which would you go for? Now that we got that other game out read more »

Ghostbusters dev: 360 holding back PS3 version

Filed under: News, Console wars In a recent interview with videogaming247.com, Mark Randel, president of Ghostbusters developer Terminal Reality, laid down some new fodder for flamewars everywhere by multplatform development is keeping the team from doing everything they could with the game. Specifically, Randel said that the PS3′s seven processors allow for much more than read more »

Microsoft: GTAIV DLC to include "hours" of gameplay

Filed under: News, Xbox Live, Xbox Live Marketplace A statement released by Microsoft on Tuesday reminds everyone living under a rock that Grand Theft Auto IV is now available and features online play and future DLC. One line in the statement may reveal the size of the content stating, “starting this autumn, Xbox 360 owners read more »

Epic’s Capps will keynote Leipzig, talk GoW2

Filed under: News It has come to our attentive attention that Epic Games president Michael Capps will have the honor of doing the keynote presentation on August 18th at this year’s GC Developer’s Conference in Leipzig, Germany. Not all that exciting of news if it wasn’t for the fact that Capps’ speech will include a read more »

Want multiplayer in Prototype 2? Buy Prototype 1

Filed under: News When the open world smash-em-up Prototype was first revealed, online multiplayer was one of the most exciting features on the docket. Unfortunately, it was discovered last month that the feature (both online and off) has been removed from the game so the team at Radical Entertainment can focus on the single-player experience. read more »

Video: Liberty City has a heart

Filed under: Fan stuff, Videos So begins the discovery of Grand Theft Auto IV Easter eggs with the big lady herself, the Statue of Happiness who we recently found to be very collectible. This Easter egg (embedded above) shows us what’s really hidden deep inside the chest of Liberty City’s Statue of Happiness and really, read more »