During our extensive video tour of the New Xbox Experience, we managed to miss that an old feature has actually been removed. Specifically, we’re talking about the ability to download all Xbox Live Arcade games automatically. We’re not sure how many people actually use the feature, but for those that like to at least try [...]
Writing this post, we were fully ready to laugh heartily at the “story” of Mortal Kombat vs DC Universe. We were ready to lambast the cheesiness of it. And yet, strangely, we find ourselves reveling in it. The idea that the universes of Mortal Kombat and DC are merging together seems appropriate enough, especially given [...]
Filed under: News, Fable 2
As was promised, Lionhead and Microsoft have setup a method for those Fable II CE purchasers who didn’t receive the redemption code to get their promised DLC. Silly game packaging mixups.
To claim your free Fable II DLC code, simply head over to the Xbox.com support page and enter your Windows Live [...]
Filed under: News
Here’s one for you. Two parrots playing the voice controlled Tom Clancy’s EndWar. Really, need we say more?
No joke, the official EndWar video you see above features two talking birds named Walter and Polly who are sitting on a custom apparatus and talking into Xbox Live headsets while their “owner” instructs them on [...]
Filed under: News
Update: Major Nelson just informed us that the NXE notification emails are being sent out over the next few hours. Good luck, fanboys!
Today is the day that separates the men from the women, the hardcore from the casual and the l33t from the n00b. Today is the day we find out who [...]
Filed under: News, Rock Band 2
Just when our friends in Europe thought they were being left out (yet again) of the Rock Band 2 fun, EA just announced that the sequel to the original multi-instrument music platform will be releasing this November.
Rock Band 2 - the standalone game - will release to Europe on November [...]
Filed under: Fan stuff, Gears of War 2
With only 1000 in existence the Gears of War 2 COG tags are some of the most sought after bonus items to acquire for any Xbox 360 game, and now X3F now has two. This tag, coming from a small stockpile of only 30 in Canada, comes straight [...]
Filed under: Fan stuff
With the New Xbox Experience (NXE) just weeks away our sister-site (with the help of X3F’s own Richard Mitchell) has developed the most in-depth preview of every major upgrade to the system. Spanning nine different video features, the Joystiq NXE preview will outlines everything from the new Guide, Avatar creation and customization, [...]
Filed under: News, Xbox Live Arcade
The second episode of the extremely successful adventure game, Penny Arcade Adventures: On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness, and Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader? hosted by a virtual Jeff Foxworthy are now available on the Xbox Live Arcade. The double-shot of Arcade fun will leave a gaping hole [...]
Filed under: News, Xbox Live Marketplace, Banjo Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts
We woke up this morning and thought, “Wouldn’t it be nice if we could build some kind of flying car?” As though they read our minds, Microsoft has released a demo for Banjo Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts on the Xbox Live Marketplace. Clocking in at [...]
