List of the most played Live games of 2008

Filed under: News, Halo 3, Gears of War 2, Call of Duty: World at War

Just in case you weren’t keeping (weekly) track of the most played games of 2008, our pal Major Nelson thought he’d do the community a service by listing the Top 20 Live Games of 2008, based on

Sunday Deals: $15 Orange Box and more

Filed under: Deals and Bargains

This week, you can view all of the Sunday weekly ad’s best Xbox 360 deals after the break and in bulleted form thanks to the fact that there are too many games to list in a paragraph and because we just like to use bullets. Don’t worry though, the same amount of care went into organizing… Continue reading

Rumor: LEGO Rock Band in development

Filed under: News, Rumors, Rock Band 2

According to videogaming247 and their super secret “source”, LEGO franchise developer Traveller’s Tales is currently hard at work on their latest brick game: LEGO Rock Band.

Supposedly, during a Radio One interview, a UK Traveller’s Tales employee confirmed that they’re working on a new LEGO game and… Continue reading

Square Enix to bring Yosumin Live to the XBLA

Filed under: News, Xbox Live Arcade, Rumors

According to not so English and very foreign website rumblepack and more or less confirmed by the Destructoid crew, Square Enix’s colorful puzzle game Yosumin Live will be coming to the Xbox Live Arcade in the not to distant future. There’s off-screen screengrabs as well as

First issue of Dead Space comic free to read online

Filed under: News, Dead Space

Newsarama, Image Comics, EA and everyone else involved with producing the Dead Space comic have banded together in agreement to offer the series’ first issue to Dead Space fanboys for FREE. Digitally though, of course. You can view the entire first issue of the Dead Space comic series over at

High calorie Banjo-Kazooie and Viva Pinata cakes

Filed under: Fan stuff, Banjo Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts

Looking for a festive and fun video game themed cakes to consume or just admire? Look no further than Washington based Cake Fixation, the creators of both the Viva Pinata: Trouble in Paradise and Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts themed cakes you see above. Note the

Halo 3 push to talk all but a distant memory

Filed under: News, Halo 3

In this week’s more traditional edition of the Bungie Weekly Update, the Bungie guys (and a few gals) inform us that Halo 3’s once controversial and still annoying push to talk communication is being all but removed. With the next wave of Halo 3 matchmaking updates (set for release mid

New Lips DLC: The Supremes, Earth Wind and Fire, Men at Work,

Filed under: News, Xbox Live Marketplace

Today, Microsoft released three new Lips downloadable songs that have the ability to embiggen your Lips music library all while reducing your banked Microsoft points. The three new songs range in price between 160 and 180 MS points and include music from The Supremes, Men at Work and Earth, Wind and Fire. DLC listed below, click to buy.

X3F’s top stories of 2008

Filed under: Fan stuff

Now that 2008 has come to a close with both team X3F and the X3F community deciding the best games of 2008, we’re feeling a little ‘08 nostalgic for some reason. Maybe we have an attachment disorder or are just in awe of how amazing 2008 was, but whatever the case, we wanted to revisit last

WRUP: Happy 2009 edition

Filed under: X3F Features

It’s totally 2009, fanboys! Happy New Year and such! We’re all off enjoying the festivities of a new year. More specifically, we finally have time to play all the games we just haven’t gotten around to. Well, most of us, anyway. Read on to see what we’re all playing at Fanboy Towers. As always, don’t… Continue reading