Hello everyone!

If you are reading this you are and will always be amazing fans! A few months ago we announced the end of X-Strike Studios. That still happened and wasn't a dream, I'm sorry. But I'm happy to announce that some of us (Juese, Tim, Dave, and I) have moved on to create a new site that we think you'll really enjoy: FatGatsby.com! It is a podcast-centric site with some old favorites you will remember and some new ones coming down the pipe very soon! If you're looking for your TripleRaidio fix, this is where you should go! Robot Brains in Robot Bodies, Games of Future Past (formerly Retrocast), and Vic Tokai will also have a home at fatgastby.com. New episodes launch every Monday!

X-Strike will still be at MagFest 8.5 and 13 but we will also be representing Fat Gatsby at the same time. It's sure to be confusing and super fun!

Thank you everyone again for all of your support over the years. We hope to see some of you over at fatgatsby.com very soon!

Hugs and kisses,

Ben

Ladies and Gentlemen,

Eleven years ago today, X-strike Studios was formed when a domain name was officially registered and a bare-bones site was created with a small teaser for a fan-made River City Ransom movie. Over the course of those eleven years we’ve busted out five feature length films, 250ish podcast episodes, radio dramas, documentaries and tons of shorts. It’s with that in mind, and a heavy heart that today we announce that the time has come for X-strike Studios to go quietly in the night.

X-strike Studios will be closing its doors sometime in early 2015.

We made the decision a few weeks ago, just before the Cracked article hit the web, but this has been a long time coming. Over the course of the past several years, anyone will have noticed that our production has fallen off significantly. There’s a number of reasons for this; the foremost of which being that our lives have just changed so much since the company was born in 2003. Back then we were either still in college or just out of college with nothing but time on our hands, living in very close proximity to one another. Since then people have gradually moved apart, real jobs were attained, ladies were wooed into holy matrimony, and general life obligations have made the process of video production all the more difficult. With this in mind, coupled with a number of other factors, we decided the time has come to step away from X-strike and move on to new endeavors.

So what can you expect out of X-strike Studios in the next year?

For one this does not affect the River City Rumble reprint in any way. We had been discussing a reprint of the DVD for a while and the surge of interest generated from the Cracked article was the kick in the pants we needed to make it happen. We’ll be printing extra copies to have available at conventions so anyone who wants a copy should have the chance.

You can also still expect a few last pieces of content from X-strike. We have a few shorts left to produce for our Kickstarter backers and the TripleRaidio podcast will continue for the foreseeable future. I’m sure some of you are hoping to hear exactly what we had planned for Eternal Horror and that information will get out there in some way too. We will be at MAGFest 8.5 (spoiler) and MAGFest 13 with our usual table and panels as something of a farewell tour. Of course, as individuals we’ll never stop going to MAGFest because MAGFest is awesome. The website itself won’t be going anywhere for the time being and while it may get stripped down a bit next year, most all the content and the store will be there indefinitely.

So that’s the long and short of it ladies and gentlemen. Being a part of X-strike Studios has been a long and wonderful journey but it’s time to say goodbye. Or at least, start saying goodbye. We’d like to thank all of dudes who put their time and energy into making X-strike Studios what it was over the course of the past decade: Chad, Rory, Darrin, Steve, Rich, Jaekwon, Cory, Brett, Mahoney and Dave. We’d like to thank all of the numerous people who donated their time to be part of a movie, be it as actors, extras, costumes, or crew. We never quite made it to the “paying people” phase of being a movie company so this was purely folks donating their free time to have fun and help us out. We’d like to thank the musicians who put their time and talent into making some fantastic music for our projects, be it in the form of original tunes or game remixes for RCR. Dale North and A_Rival’s soundtracks for Silent Horror and Project Snake are still available for purchase - buy them!

Most of all though we would like to thank our absolutely amazing fan base. We’ve received an incredible level of support from you all over the years, most of all in helping our Off Campus Kickstarter campaign be a rousing success. As X-strike staffers have come and gone, and our production has waned over the past few years, our fans have remained supportive of us every step of the way and we’re proud to now call many of you our friends. So for all of you that donated money to the Kickstarter, helped us with editing equipment, drove for hours to be a zombie in Resident Horror, or just never stopped shouting our name from the hilltops to anyone who would listen, thank you.

If anyone has any questions that I didn't cover, please let us know in the comments and we’ll do our best to answer them.

- Tim, Juese and Ben

We have decided to take pre-orders for a limited run of River City Rumble! Please visit the store to place your pre-order now. We will need a minimum of 25 pre-orders before we can start. If we don't reach the minimum, we will refund your money 100%. The deadline to place your order is April 30th.

Thank you everyone for your interest! 

Hi everyone,

If you haven't read the article on Cracked.com stating that we are the "objectively superior counterpart to Scott Pilgrim vs. the World," please do now!

If you've already read it and want to get your hands on a copy of the movie, well... sorry? We sold out about a year ago and when Cracked.com said we are more than Independent, they weren't kidding. We work on a shoestring budget and haven't had the money to re-print the DVD. The good news is that we are trying to get some digital distribution going for the near future!. Also, we still have our other movies for sale through our store! Check it out!

And, thank you Tom Reimann of Cracked.com!

Hi everyone! You can listen to the latest episode of Robot Brains in Robot Bodies now! It's our Christmas themed episode.

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Hugs 'n kisses,

Ben

The store is back and better than ever! You may remember that there were issues with the shipping options in the store. Well, I'm happy to say that everything is working perfectly!

To celebrate the re-opening and Black Friday, X-Strike Studios is having an all day sale this Friday! Every DVD is $5.00 (plus S&H) for just 24 hours!

Happy Thanksgiving! I've got to go buy a 3DS now...

Happy Halloween from X-Strike! Find out what happens when our favorite video heroes take a trip to the local haunted woods and learn a thing or two about ancient relics and the importance of staying on the path!

Hi everyone! We've been busy lately and have some new content for you. First, we've got a new episode of Robot Brains in Robot Bodies and a bonus live episode! The live episode doesn't have the best audio quality but don't let that stop you from a great comedy podcast!

Secondly, we've put up some shorts on the video viewer. They are the concepts of some of our loyal fans that donated to our top tier of Kickstarter! Again, thank you to everyone that supported us and continues to! You make us very happy sticky happy and sticky.