X3F Week in Review: May 30, 2008 - June 5, 2008

Videos, videos, videos. This week was apparently all about video features at X3F. With demos for Ninja Gaiden 2, NASCAR 09 and Crash Time, we had more impressions that we could shake a stick at. Add these to our regular stockpile of video features -- Community Content, XBLA in Brief, and Points>Life -- and you've got an audio visual smorgasbord of delights. A smorgasbord, we say! Not only that but we have retrospectives on Ninja Gaiden and Tomonobu Itagaki. Simply amazing.

For your viewing pleasure, we've embedded our video impressions of Crash Time. After the glorious light that was the Ninja Gaiden 2 demo, Crash Time reminds us of the fetid depths of bargain bin gaming. Watch the video and then peruse the links below to cleanse your palette. Trust us, you'll need to.

• X3F Impressions: Ninja Gaiden II demo
  Sweet, sweet, gory goodness.

• X3F Impressions: Crash Time demo
  Crappy, crappy, awful badness

• X3F Impressions: NASCAR 09 demo
  Um ... NASCAR-y, NASCAR-y, NASCAR-ness?

• Points>Life: Racing is Puzzling
  Solving PGR4 puzzles so you don't have too

• XBLA in Brief: Warlords and Buku Sudoku
  Another Atari 'classic' and ... Sudoku hit XBLA

• XBLA in Brief: Aces of the Galaxy and Roogoo
  Two decent games in one week? Wow

• Community Content: Docking Station Edition
  Someone built a space ship in Halo 3, you invade it

• Tomonobu Itagaki: A Blood Splattered History
  One of gaming's most outspoken designers profiled

• A History of Violence: Ninja Gaiden Retrospective
  Ryu Hayabusa: Badass since 1988