Monthly Archives: August 2008

PAX 08: Hands-on Halo 3′s Assembly

Filed under: News, Halo 3 Over on Joystiq, you can check out our hands-on impression of Bungie’s big PAX reveal, Assembly. And, surprise, surprise, Assembly is actually an amazingly fun Halo 3 multiplayer map. Click towards the jump to read about Assembly map specifics, some of its intricacies and generally how the map plays. Also, read more »

PAX 08: It’s a PAX’ified X3F sticker gallery

Filed under: Fan stuff We did it during E3 and figured we’d do it again. It’s back and better than ever, the oh so cool and 100% organic X3F sticker gallery this time from the Penny Arcade Expo 2008. Yippy! And after two days of walking the show floor, we were able to corner and read more »

PAX 08: Castle Crashers patch to release ASAP

Filed under: News, Xbox Live Arcade In a Penny Arcade Expo interview posted over on Joystiq, The Behemoth’s Dan Paladin and Tom Fulp talk Castle Crashers problems, making it very clear that they’re working hard to release an online co-op fixing patch “as soon as possible.” “We’re trying to get it out as soon as read more »

PAX 08: PAX inspired Rock Band DLC announced

Filed under: News, Xbox Live Marketplace, Rock Band 2 Admittedly, we’re a bit late on informing you about the latest batch of upcoming Rock Band downloadable content, but we’ve been busy touring Microsoft’s campus and doing other PAX things. Please forgive us. But no matter the date, you should know that this Tuesday, Harmonix will read more »

PAX 08: Red vs. Blue goes animated

Filed under: News, Halo 3 Earlier yesterday, the Rooster Teeth crew held a rather interesting reveal, unveiling their latest Red vs. Blue project and it has gone animated. Yup, RvB has moved on from its machinima roots and jumped into the world of Japanese anime complete with vivid imagery and pretty colors. It’s still the read more »

PAX 2008: Halo 3 Mythic? What’s Halo 3 Mythic? [update]

Filed under: News, Halo 3 Update: According to Joystiq, Bungie’s Brian Jarrard explained that the Mythic picture was taken prior to the PAX kickoff and wasn’t meant for public consumption. Jarrad then made it clear that the Mythic screen is “really not that exciting” and has “gotten kind of blown out of proportion.” We attempted read more »

Fanswag Weekly: Win a signed copy of Too Human [update]

Filed under: Too Human, Contests and Giveaways Update: This giveaway is now closed and our winner will be notified soon. Check your spam boxes, kids! After a week covering Silicon Knights and Too Human, it’s time to end our special coverage with a special giveaway. Up for grabs we have a copy of Too Human read more »

Castle Crashers Review (Xbox 360)

Is Behemoths hackncrash XBLA title worth defending?

PAX 2008: Left 4 Dead: Hands-On Xbox 360 [Xbox 360] (GameSpot)

We check out Valve’s zombie shoot-fest on the Xbox 360.

PAX 2008: Halo 3 Mythic? What’s Halo 3 Mythic?

Filed under: News, Halo 3 As we jet off to our next PAX appointment we thought we’d inform you about the latest and most interesting Halo 3 news bit to come from the PAX show floor that’s fourteen times more exciting than Assembly. It’s something called Halo 3 Mythic with a multiplayer only menu, version read more »