Current Segments
Gaming Update
A look at the current news and happenings in the gaming world. It begins with a two-to-three minute segment at the start of the show, narrated by either Adam or Morgan (and sometimes by X-Play newsdesk producer Blair Herter), then continues via a news ticker at the bottom of the screen throughout the rest of the episode.
Video Viewer Mail
Adam and Morgan would often read selected correspondence from the program's viewers at the end of every episode. These messages from the fans could be questions about the current state of the videogame industry, requests for recommendations on the best games to buy, or (especially during the TechTV era) hate mail from viewers who felt that X-Play did not give certain games a "fair" rating.
On November 6th, 2006, X-Play gave their Viewer Mail segment a high-tech face-lift, by renaming it Video Viewer Mail. While previous correspondence was held via the written word or e-mail, viewers can now record short clips of themselves asking questions with a webcam or video recorder.
Viewers who have their viewer mail appear on air often receive a free gift, such as a game or t-shirt provided by Jinx.com.
X-Play Exclusive
The show debuts a never-before-seen trailer or piece of gameplay footage.
Hands On
Adam and Morgan have a producer (or some other person associated with the development of a certain game) in the studio to show off the latest build/demo of their work.
Face Time
This segment features Adam or Morgan conducting an interview with a personality from the gaming community (programmers, directors, company CEOs, etc.) via satellite. It continues the X-Play tradition of having famous names on their show, including non-gaming celebrities such as Adam West, David Duchovny, John Cleese, Ben Affleck, Angelina Jolie, Carmen Electra, Ben Stiller, Andrew W.K., Rob Van Dam, Kurt Angle, Quentin Richardson, and Jet Li.
X-List
A top-five list compiled by the X-Play writers that have to do with video games (including Top Five Smash Bros. Levels, Top Five Creatures in Halo 3, and Top Five Recommended Obscure Games).
X-Play Top 10
Similar to the X-List, except that the list is expanded from five to ten items ... Past examples have included the Top 10 Games for Adult Eyes Only and Top 10 Badass Weapons.
X-Play Poll
Viewers are invited to vote on a question and the results are posted at the end of the show.
X-Play Trivia
Prior to a commercial break, the viewers are presented with a trivia question that has to do with the gaming world (the answer is revealed once the show returns from the break).
X-Play Leaderboard
X-Play reveals the top scores from the week for various games (the scorers are compiled from Xbox Live and PlayStation Network).
Virtual Audience
Sponsored by Stickam, this segment gives actual viewers a chance to be "interviewed" by Adam and Morgan
Mr. Sark Challenge
A recurring segment where Mr. Sark (AKA associate producer Scott Robison) challenges X-Play viewers to complete various challenges laid out during the show (past examples have included a timed mission in Halo 3 and winning a virtual slam-dunk contest in NBA 2K8).
Will Work for Games
X-Play shows what it's like to actually work within the video-game industry, documenting a day in the life of various gaming employees (such as facial animation producers and games testers).
First Look
Previews and trailers for upcoming video games.
Head to Head
This provides Adam or Morgan a chance to invite some of the top names in the video game industry (be they developers, programmers, or fellow reviewers) on the show via satellite to debate the hot gaming topics of the day.
All Access
An indepth look at certain video games.
On Location
The hosts take a "field trip" to certain game-related locations or events, such as the annual D.I.C.E. Summit or the "ultimate gaming room" created by Barry Evans.
The Download
Highlighting the most recent patches and downloadable content available.
Cheat!
What was once a half-hour show airing on the G4 network, has been reduced to a minutes-long segment hosted by Kristin Holt; she provides cheats for one game per segment.
X-Play Replay
Premiering at the end of the August 7, 2006 edition of X-Play (Episode No. 6082), this segment is essentially a quick rundown of all of the day's reviews. It also gives Adam and Morgan a chance to briefly explain why each game earned the score that it did.
Big Ones
X-Play takes a look at the biggest upcoming titles, such as Killzone 2 and LittleBigPlanet.
Made in Japan
The spiritual successor to Weird Games, this segment highlights Japanese imports that are too strange to be released on American soil (such as Primal Image and Operation Darkness, ironically, the latter was released in the U.S.).
X-Play: WTF?
A segment which looks at the wackier side of the video-game industry. As the well-known acronym used in the title would indicate, X-Play asks who in their right mind would think that the game/series/objective in question was actually a good idea or made sense in any way ... Past examples have included the character Princess Daisy, the city of Tokyo, and movie tie-in games made for the Nintendo DS.
Release Radar
This is a quick list of which anticipated games will be available for purchase over the coming month.
Spoiler Theater
In this segment, Adam and Morgan showcase and spoil the endings of current-generation games that have been on the market for some time (their reasoning is that the game has been available to the home viewers for such a length of time that if they have not yet purchased/beaten said game by this point, they never will). Past games that have been given the Spoiler Theater treatment include Metroid Prime, Resident Evil 4, Kingdom Hearts, Conker's Bad Fur Day, and Metal Gear Solid 2.
There is also an occasional segment called Insignificant Spoiler Theater (identified as Not-So-Spoiler Theater and Irrelevant Spoiler Theater on G4's website), which features the endings of games that either exhibit very little in the way of plot (such as Katamari Damacy and Left Behind: Eternal Forces) or are based on movies where the storylines are already well-known (like The Godfather, Reservoir Dogs, and Pirates of the Caribbean).
X-Play Investigates
This segment began during the TechTV era as a parody of investigative news programs; X-Play would delve into such "hard-hitting" issues as the effects of E-rated games on America's youth, just what the "cool" people (such as then-TechLive anchor Chris Leary) were into, the horrors of animal testing for video-game quality control, and why certain intellectual property - like the TV show American Chopper - deserved to have their own video games (in the cleverly titled "How'd They Get a Game?").
However, this segment has recently taken on a more serious tone, with the show tackling subjects without the sole intent of creating comedy skits. Examples include a look at the portrayal of sex in video games, the prevalence of "achievement whores", and an inspection of the life of competitive gamer Steve Wiebe.
Splinter Cell: Co-op Theatre
In this machinima skit, X-Play takes scenarios from the Splinter Cell games and plays humorous dialogue to go with them. The two characters in this skit are "Special Agent Bob" and "Secret Agent Steve". Examples of their antics include curing pornography addictions with a bullet to the crotch and Bob trying to convince Steve to see the movie Bareback Mountain with him.
Somewhere in Army of Two
Similar to Splinter Cell: Co-op Theatre, these sketches take footage from the popular shooter and dubs in humorous commentary for the characters of Salem and Rios (for example, one sketch has the two discussing the internet meme known as rickrolling).
X-Play Presents G-Phoria
What began as a video game award ceremony produced by the G4 network (similar to other events like the Spike TV Video Game Awards and Teen Choice Awards in that it featured high production values, celebrity guests, and a live audience), was stripped of its extravagances in 2006 and reformatted into an annual one-hour "special episode" of X-Play. Filmed in the normal X-Play studios (without an audience) and hosted by Adam and Morgan, each yearly G-Phoria-themed episode compiles votes submitted by the home viewers in order to announce winners in various categories, such as Game of the Year, Favorite System, and Best Graphics. This differentiates it from X-Play's "Best Of" Awards, in which the winners are chosen by the writers and producers of the show (not the home audience).
Best Of Awards
Every year, X-Play will dedicate an entire show to the best games released over the preceding twelve months; awards are handed out in several categories, such as "Most Original Game" and "Best Handheld Game", but the most prestigious - and most hotly debated - is "Game of the Year":
2003 winner - Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic
2004 winner - Halo 2
2005 winner - Resident Evil 4
2006 winner - The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess
2007 winner - BioShock
2008 winner - Fable II
Golden Mullet Awards
The polar opposite of X-Play's yearly "Best Of" special, The Golden Mullet Awards are used to showcase the absolute worst video games of the past year. The name is a twisted "homage" to the Aquaman character from the horrible 2003 game Aquaman: Battle for Atlantis, who sported a blonde polygonal mullet hairstyle. To honor this unique look, Adam and Morgan will usually don large mullet wigs during the awards proceedings.
Convention Coverage
X-Play has conducted several on-site recaps from various fan conventions and trade shows throughout the world (including E3, Comic-Con, Leipzig, Gen Con, PAX, QuakeCon, and FanimeCon). One 2003 episode even featured clips from a number of these reports under the umbrella of a fictitious X-Play-inspired convention called X-Con; however, fans attending the event seemed to be more interested in receiving autographs from the interns than from Adam or Morgan.
April Fool's Day
The X-Play writers often come up with some outlandish premise during the first week of April to try and fool the viewing audience (and judging by remarks made afterwards on the show's official message boards, a lot of people do indeed fall for these stunts). Some of the pranks have included Eyewitness X-Play (where the show was supposedly re-formatted into a more serious hard-edged news show, taking place at the TechLive desk), Meet the Sess (viewers were led to believe that Adam had left X-Play to pursue his own talk show), Johnny's Xtreme Adventure (Adam and Morgan review a fictitious 2D side scroller starring the recurring X-Play character Johnny Xtreme), and a "re-review" of Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII (a voice-over replaced Adam's original negative comments with more positive words, as the game was given a "six out of five").
Games For Cheap Bastards
This segment of the program highlights good-to-great games that have recently fallen in price and can now be considered great bargains for the discriminating video-game connoisseur looking to add to his or her collection (without destroying their gaming budget). Prior to April 2006, this segment was sponsored by EB Games.
Various take-offs on this segment have been produced, including:
Games for Rich Bastards, where games with significantly larger price tags ($70 and up) are highlighted. These include Steel Battalion (a mech simulation game notorious for being sold pre-packaged with an immense $200 40-button control panel) and the Japanese version of Rez (an extremely rare hybrid of a rail shooter and rhythm-based game).
Even Cheaper Games For Even Cheaper Bastards, a tongue-in-cheek look at games for those who are really strapped for cash. These games are mostly outdated freeware or shareware (such as Stickybear Typing and Minesweeper), and - at the end of the segment - Adam or Morgan would claim that they were sponsored by "companies" that reflect the consumers' thread-bare resources (including Stale Ramen Noodles and Driving Your Girlfriend's Car).
Games For Robot Bastards, which was really just a look at the history of robots in video games.
Games For Bastards, which features games that you would only give to your worst enemy (due to their high degree of difficulty, bad camera angles, or just a complete lack of entertainment).
Games for Pluto, a "salute" to Pluto's demotion to the status of "dwarf planet" by highlighting games that just don't measure up (like Homeworld 2 and Destroy All Humans).
Games for NASA, which parodies the various delays that NASA shuttle missions have experienced in the past, by highlighting games that have suffered through lengthy delays themselves (such as StarCraft: Ghost and Duke Nukem Forever).
Zero Punctuation
A preview of Ben Croshaw's online visual game reviews from The Escapist, airing every Tuesday.
The MMO Report
A preview of G4's online-only MMORPG-focused vodcast. During these brief segments, the show's host - Casey Schreiner - will appear "live via satellite" and discuss the latest headlines that can be found through the vodcast's official website, before throwing things back to Adam or Morgan in the X-Play studio. Although The MMO Report originally began airing webisodes in August of 2007, these previews did not start appearing on X-Play broadcasts until the show's reformatting in January of 2008.
The Will Wright Minute
A segment where X-Play gives the famous game designer sixty seconds to spout off about any random subject of his choosing (like Russian space stations, Batman's costume, or the Care Bears). Also, the theme song used for this segment is a play on Don Henley's New York Minute (In a Will Wright minute, ooo eee ooo, anything can happen ... )
Todd Time
As a follow-up to their efforts with Will Wright and Spore, X-Play created this segment to help advertise the release of Fallout 3. It features Bethesda executive producer Todd Howard discussing various topics, like the possibility of a single console on the gaming market, or having fun killing Nazis.
Cliff Notes
The third installment of X-Play's "let-game-developers-ramble-on-in-order-to-promote-their-latest-project" series, this segment features Cliff Bleszinski discussing random topics (such as the Transformers animated feature film and Britney Spears music videos) whilst advertising the release of his Gears of War 2.
Pro Tips
A segment where various correspondents appear to share their knowledge of video games. Past examples have included TSquared doling out advice on multiplayer in Call of Duty 4, Chris Gore modding a controller in order to play the tambourine with Rock Band, and Joel Gourdin showing off his techniques for Guitar Hero.
Mod This
A celebration of fan-generated video-game user mods, such as the customized Super Mario Bros. level created by FrontAXL for Unreal Tournament III.
Big in Japan
A look at the top-five selling games for the week in Japan.
X-Play Recommends
As the title would imply, these are games that come highly regarded from the staff of X-Play (including Boom Blox and Grid).
Game Before the Games
In this segment, the X-Play staff uses current-gen sports titles to try and predict the outcome of real-life sporting events (such as using Madden 09 to simulate the first week of the NFL season, or playing NBA 2K8 to predict the NBA Finals).
Games in 60 Seconds
X-Play's attempt to wrap up the storyline for a particular video games (such as God of War and Twilight Princess) in just one minute.
Up All Night
A segment which highlights games (such as Call of Duty 4 and Elder Scrolls IV) that are worthy of start-to-finish playthrough, no matter how much sleep one sacrifices by gaming into the wee hours of the morning ...
X-Play Classic
A chance for the staff and crew to revisit some of their favorite moments from the show's past (such as the 1-900-NINJA-LUV sketch featuring Drunk Link).
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Knob Adjustment Vacuum Switches
Fast Replacement Limit Switches
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MC-36 Multi-Function Remote Cord
Variable Height Plunger Switches
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