During the holiday shopping season, it’s more important than ever for games to stand out… in a good way. Here are the covers of this week’s releases and how they fared in our weekly box art reviews…

“Mushroom Men: The Spore Wars” (Wii)
What the Box Tells Us: A pair of mouthless, weapon-wielding mushroom men make their [...]

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Filed under: News, Halo Wars

Mr. Chris Paladino over at Microsoft’s Gamerscore Blog is on the hunt for interesting questions to ask Ensemble Studios regarding their upcoming 360 Halo RTS, Halo Wars. So, he decided to turn to the Xbox community and is ever so humbly requesting that you submit your Halo Wars questions. Specifically, he [...]

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Filed under: News

When Microsoft and Rockstar Games initially announced their partnership to release the Grand Theft Auto IV Lost and Damned DLC to the 360, we were under the impression that it’d be exclusive to the Xbox Live Marketplace. We were wrong.

There’s a Gamestop.com product listing for “Grand Theft Auto IV: Lost & Damned” and [...]

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Filed under: X3F Features

Today marks the final day of our four-part Holiday Game and Rating Guide, co-developed by parent-focused site What They Play. In today’s list we recommend five must own titles rated “M” for “Mature.” Jump in for chainsaws and zombies and find out what you should be asking for this holiday season.
Developed by [...]

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Filed under: Contests and Giveaways

Hey kids, just a quick reminder that our monster Holiday Wish List Giveaway is still underway. We’re giving away not just one, but two piles of sweet Xbox 360 swag, including games, action figures, posters, clothes, an art book and even a couple of X3F stickers. The idea is that you’ll [...]

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Filed under: News

Edge Online has posted an article examining the Xbox 360’s recent success in Japan. You may recall the console’s recent sales surge, which saw it surpass the Playstation 3 in sales for weeks on end. Edge, unsurprisingly, points to the recent spate of games aimed at Japanese audiences as the reason for the [...]

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Too Human is something of a divisive game. Some people love it, others hate it. From the unusual control scheme to the unique setting, the game has earned a mixed reputation. Still, the game did reasonably well, especially for a new franchise. Well enough, it seems, that Silicon Knights has announced the release [...]

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Filed under: X3F Features

Another Black Friday, another WRUP about stuffing ourselves with turkey and being very, very sleepy. Well, Xav is Canadian, so his Thanksgiving is long gone, though is his very sleepy for entirely different reasons. In fact, both Dustin are Xav are so sleepy that their entries have been written for them. Consider [...]

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Filed under: News, Xbox Live Arcade, Xbox Live Marketplace, Deals and Bargains

For those who decided to stay home and far, far away from the retailers and the shopping mobs in search of Black Friday deals, you can still participate in the Xbox Live Marketplace Black Friday shopping.

Available through the weekend (to U.S. Gold Live subscribers) [...]

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Filed under: News, Xbox Live Marketplace
Available for download off the Xbox Live Marketplace is a fresh and alert Command & Conquer Red Alert 3 demo. The 1.5GB demo download can be grabbed in all Xbox Live regions and (from what we gather from the demo description) features single and Live multiplayer play. Also according to [...]

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Filed under: News, Rumors

Word on the street is that the Jasper Xbox 360s (consoles with a smaller 65nm chipset) are finally hitting retail shelves and along with the benefits of running cooler, requiring less power, and being generally more “stable”, we’re finding out that Jaspers may also have additional storage capabilities.

According to a Xbox-Scene who [...]

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Filed under: News, Xbox Live Marketplace

After a delay or two and nothing but silence from Rockstar, we finally have specific information regarding the release of the Xbox 360 exclusive (and highly anticipated) Grand Theft Auto IV episodic DLC.

According to USA Today, the GTAIV “Lost and Damned” episodic DLC will release on February 17th, 2009 and [...]

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Filed under: Xbox Live Arcade, X3F TV, X3F Features
After a week with no XBLA games, we were ready to sink our teeth into something new. This week, we not only get A Kingdom for Keflings, but it also happens to be the first Xbox 360 game that lets players use their Avatar as a playable [...]

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Filed under: News

That’s it folks. Show’s over. Move along. US Magistrate Judge Richard Seeborg has dismissed the case of MKR Group — the company that owns George Romero’s Dawn of the Dead film — versus Capcom — the publisher behind Dead Rising. MKR Group tried to make the case that Dead Rising is too similar [...]

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Filed under: News

With all of the NXE excitement going around, it might have been easy to forget that Avatar support is now available for Scene It? Box Office Smash. It might have been easy to forget, except that we’re totally reminding you about it right now. All you have to do is pop the game [...]

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Filed under: News, Halo 3

You may recall that a recent Eurogamer article profiled the performance of several popular Xbox 360 when installing them to the hard drive (one of the new features of the NXE). While some games received improved performance and shorter load times and others saw little to no improvement, it turned out [...]

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Filed under: News, Xbox Live Arcade

Either intentionally or unintentionally, Capcom announced (using a screenshot, no less) that November 26th is the release date for their upcoming XBLA release Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix.

Yes sir, in their press release regarding the new NXE Street Fighter “branded destination experience”, they included a screenshot that spills [...]

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Filed under: News
Now that you have had ample time to mess around with today’s newly released New Xbox Experience, we figured we’d point out a few NXE features that you may not have discovered.
Major Nelson created a list of the “Top 10 things to do when you get the New Xbox Experience”, which pretty much [...]

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Filed under: News, Xbox Live Arcade, Xbox Live Marketplace

Newly available for purchase off the Xbox Live Marketplace is A Kingdom for Keflings, a brand new Xbox Live Arcade game from the folks over at Ninja Bee.

At 800 Microsoft points, A Kingdom of Keflings is a city building sim where you play a giant who takes [...]

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Filed under: News, Fable 2
Last week, Lionhead revealed that a BIG Fable II announcement would be coming this week. Well, their plans didn’t work out as expected and the BIG announcement has been delayed until next Monday, November 24th. Reason being that Microsoft decided this week wouldn’t be the best time to announce BIG Fable [...]

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Filed under: Contests and Giveaways, Left 4 Dead

To celebrate the release of the zombieified Left 4 Dead, we figured we’d offer the fanboy community some stylish new zombie-killing threads. So, we partnered with our friends over at Threadless to give away a bunch of their “Of The Dead” tshirts, because (just like the tee reads) [...]

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Filed under: Fan stuff

Let’s make this simple. If you have an Xbox 360 and you connected to Xbox Live today, you should have the New Xbox Experience. Assuming you do, you’ve hopefully had some time to fiddle around with it. Now that you have the NXE, what do you think of it? Are there features [...]

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Filed under: News

Update: Major Nelson just sent word that the Netflix hiccups some were experiencing earlier today should now be resolved.
It looks like the the bad Netflix karma has struck again as we’re hearing reports that some gamers cannot get the New Xbox Experience enabled Netflix to work. According to reports, the Netflix activation code [...]

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Filed under: News, Gears of War 2

After a much too intense (and admittedly repetitive) weekly brawl between Halo 3 and Call of Duty 4, where each fought for Xbox Live supremacy, we are proud to bring you news that a new game has chainsawed its way to the top.

For the week of November 10th, Gears [...]

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Filed under: News

Update: VG247 is reporting that Microsoft plans on releasing new fashion items every two weeks for 6 months! That’s a lot of clothes.
If you’ve started the Avatar creation process and found the clothing options in your Avatar Closet to be lacking in terms of variety, know that more apparel is headed your way [...]

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In an attempt to foil Microsoft’s plans of a flawless NXE Netflix launch, Columbia Pictures (a studio that’s owned by Sony) has made sure that its entire Netflix movie catalog is blocked from streaming to the Xbox 360. How rude!

According to Joystiq (and confirmed by MTV Multiplayer) Netflix has pulled all Columbia Pictures [...]

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Update: The New Xbox Experience is now available, ENJOY!
We’re mere hours away from the public release of the biggest and newest Xbox 360 dashboard update, the New Xbox Experience. The dashboard update will start releasing at 5:00AM eastern (2:00AM pacific) when everyone connected to Xbox Live will be prompted to download the NXE [...]

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Filed under: Virtual Console, Wii Warm Up
Okay, hypothetical question time. I recently acquired an Xbox 360 to keep my Wii and DS company, and have spent most of my time playing games on Xbox Live Arcade. My chief obsession in this short period has been Treasure shooter Ikaruga, which I previously enjoyed on the GameCube. [...]

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Filed under: Interviews

MTV’s Stephen Totilo has posted the third and final part of a lengthy interview with Shigeru Miyamoto. Though the bulk of the article was lent to discussion of Wii Music, the pair broached other subjects, including what Miyamoto perceives as a lack of innovation in titles such as The Legend of Zelda: Twilight [...]

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Filed under: News
With Fallout 3 releasing this week, all eyes have been on Bethesda. They commented that a new Elder Scrolls game could be on schedule to release in 2010, for the PS3, Xbox 360 and PC, but not on the Wii. “At the moment we’re not that interested in the Wii,” said Paul Oughton, [...]

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