Monthly Archives: December 2008

FanPoll’08: Reader’s Choice Award Winners

Filed under: X3F Features In less than a week over 100,000 votes have been tallied across all 15 categories to vote for your favorites and most hated titles of 2008. Some surprises are in store and tears may be shed but in the end we will look back fondly at 2008. It was the year read more »

Ask X3F: Watt’s up edition

Filed under: X3F Features Ask X3F returns this week with a new batch of questions sent in by you, our loyal, information starved readers. This week, we’ve got questions about the Xbox 360′s power usage (hint: it’s a lot), rhythm game instrument compatibility, and yet another email about the profoundly bad behavior found on Xbox read more »

Explore the Tomb Raider: Underworld soundtrack (for free)

Filed under: News, Tomb Raider: Underworld If you have a penchant for the discovery of tombs and the subsequent raiding of them, you just might have a little place in your heart for the Tomb Raider: Underworld soundtrack. If so, you might also be interested to know that you can download the entire soundtrack — read more »

Win You’re in the Movies from Joystiq, have popcorn too

Filed under: Contests and Giveaways Like us, you’re probably scrambling to get your New Year’s Eve party entertainment squared away. Never mind the fact that it will all be irrelevant by the time everyone is to soused to appreciated anyway. Thus, we present to you the following giveaway opportunity: Joystiq is giving away You’re in read more »

Another European invasion hits Guitar Hero: World Tour

Filed under: Xbox Live Marketplace, Guitar Hero World Tour Earlier in the month Activision released the first of a two-part European track pack for Guitar Hero: World Tour fans. While we’re sure the music was swell the only real comment we got when we posted the first track listing was that one of the songs read more »

Play Gears of War 2 with Gym Class Heroes

The alternative rock hip-hop band Gym Class Heroes will play Gears of War 2 with Xbox LIVE members on January 16.

Music Showcase: Gym Class Heroes

Don’t miss the latest up-and-coming artists and established superstars featured in our Music Showcase on Xbox LIVE Marketplace. This month, we feature Gym Class Heroes.

Blogs now with added Bragging Rights!

Ok before you laugh at how low my weekly gains are, please remember that I am busy cranking away at code for you folks.  Here you have it a new bragging rights entry should be shown on your blogs. Keep in mind this stat is only based on information from today’s weekly recap and on, read more »

Left 4 Dead DLC deets soonish?

Filed under: News, Left 4 Dead Valve will reveal downloadable content for its popular zombie-fueled shooter Left 4 Dead, “shortly.” According to a video podcast with Kotaku, Chet Faliszek, one of the game’s writers, confirmed that the team was looking to add Versus functionality to the Dead Air and Death Toll campaigns and to release read more »

Legend of Chun-Li trailer apparently has Street Fighter characters in it

Filed under: Fan stuff Finally, footage has been released for the new Street Fighter film, The Legend of Chun-Li in the form of a Japanese movie trailer. When it was originally announced we were worried that Capcom wouldn’t learn from the mistakes made by the first – admittedly, rad for all the wrong reasons – read more »