2:10 AM - Seems sort of unlikely
Current mood: annoyed
Category: Games
It seems that the culprit behind all those 360 deaths is your surge suppressor. Surge suppressors are supposed to protect your appliances from power fluctuations, which is why it's hard to believe they are the guilty party here. Microsoft, to their credit, is being great about covering the systems beyond the original warranty.
So I'm going to go plug my so far untroubled 360 into the wall. I don't know where I'm going to find a free outlet, because my 360 is plugged into a massive power strip along with all my other consoles of current and previous generations, my DVR, my TV, and of course a stereo to top it all off. I'm sure your TV areas all look fairly similar to mine.
I'm curious, with this news is anyone plugging their 360 into the wall or are you just going to take your chances?
X-Play has been working really hard on our Summer Preview Special, where we take a look at all the best games you'll be playing at the end of the year. We have great footage and even interviews with developers. It's a little bit of the old X-Play back again. It is on Friday May 4th at 8pm EST. Let me know if you liked it, and if there were games you wish had been included.
1:49 PM - Adam has no MySpace page
Current mood: blah
Just because I keep getting the question, I figured I'd say it again just so everyone knows. If you're friends with a MySpace Adam, it's not him.
I've been trying to be better at responding to your MySpace messages. Here are two ways to make sure I don't respond to yours:
1. Tell me Adam is dumb, annoying, retarded, whatever. Adam is my friend, a really smart guy, a great gamer and a fabulous writer. Telling me you hate him then asking for my autograph isn't really a good strategy.
2. Send me the same message 20 times just to "make sure I see it." Oh, I see it alright, I'm just not going to respond. All the time I spend deleting your messages could have been spent responding to one of them.
If you send me a chain letter I pray the gaming gods delete your memory card.
Here's another answer to a common question:
If you want an autograph, send a self addressed stamped envelope (the big kind, unless you want your pic folded into three and stuffed into a small envelope) to:
X-Play Autograph Request G4 Media 12312 W. Olympic Blvd Los Angeles CA 90064
If you want the picture signed with your name on it, make sure you say so on a note card or whatever. Yes, some get lost in the shuffle, and sometimes it can take a while, but we make every effort to get them back to you guys. If you send 17 things to sign, I don't sign them all...I tend to get bored around picture number 2. I suppose if you just have to have 17 things signed you could send them in 17 different envelopes and I would probably never notice, but sometimes I'll get boxes of stuff to sign and I don't feel like helping someone make money on EBay. Not that my signature goes for any real money on EBay but people are eternally hopeful.
We have pictures of me, of Adam, and of both of us, so specify what you want or you'll just get the joint picture.
Halloween is here so X-Play is making a list of the 10 scariest games of all time. We couldn't just do a normal episode though, we had to add a little blood and gore to the mix (some crazy person OK'd a special effects budget, so we spent it on fake blood and rubber body parts).
Our Halloween special premiers at 3PM Eastern Time on the 25th of October, but it will also show on Halloween itself at 10am and 3:30pm. Anyway, to watch the trailer, just click here.
Yes, that is Olivia Munn in a giant pool of her own blood.
Which games you think should be on our 10 scariest games countdown?
For those of you who are curious about Okami, you can watch the X-Play review here.
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