So late last night I was checking my Twitter feed and I notice Fred Durst the front man for Limp Bizkit has tweeted that he is hoping on Quake 4 and that if anyone has the game to pop it in and hop on Xbox Live.
So I did and to my surprise only me and him were on the game. So we played a couple of rounds and just talked a bit and he is pretty laid back. We talked about gaming in general and he talked about how he has like ten Xbox 360's, like one in every room of his house and even on his tour bus.
Well after I won a game on Quake 4 he added me to his friends list but asked that I not give out him Gamertag to anyone, as he said he has to change it like every week as it is already. I can say he runs with (LBGC) tags in his name. Of course this means "Limp Bizcut Gaming Clan".
So he asked if I had Black Ops and of course I do, so we switched over to that. He invited some band members into the party and I invited my brother as well. I believe it was his DJ, Guitarist and son in the party with myself and my brother.
All of the people he invited sported the (LBGC) tags actually in their names and their names all were similar with a common theme.
We got to talking and he was telling me how he always is playing on Xbox live and usually plays with other celebrities like James Hetfield (Singer for Metallica)apparently they play Gears Of War a lot, same with Dave Mustaine of Megadeth and Brent Smith from Shinedown.
He actually added me to his friends list and said he would get me in a party with Hetfield, since I told him what a huge Metallica fan I Was. One thing I thought was particularly funny was unprovoked Fred Durst totally trashed the PS3. He said he didn't really like to play it because he couldn't appear offline and would get slammed with invites, nobody had a mic and the voice chat sounded like the McDonald's drive through guy. He also went on to say if you ever see a celebrity endorsing the PS3 that you can bet they were paid to do so, as he didn't know a single celebrity that actually liked the PS3. Now I'm sure there are some out there, just not the ones he chills with.
So we played some rounds of Black Ops and I'll say Fred Durst got game, we played Hard Core CTF and won every match. I did get TKed by him twice though....good times.
Anyway you could hear him talk to his son and tell him that he needed to take his medicine so he could feel better, so I assume his son was ill and they were playing Xbox together.
All in all it was super cool to play with famous people, they all were super nice and talked like regular people and joked around with my brother and I. We ended the night around 1:00 a.m. est. and he said he'd hit me up for some Quake 4 and Black Ops in the future as him and his band like to play Quake 4 and do 4v4 and they are usually a man short to do this.
Now when we were actually in a lobby on XBL they said nothing, they didn't talk till we got in the game.
Before I left Fred said to have a good New Year and that he spent his New Years on the couch playing Xbox live.
Nice to see my habits aren't too different from famous peoples....
Well there's my story, thought I'd share as I was super excited to actually play and meet with some celebrities over XBL.
Microsoft announced its financial results for Q3 of fiscal year 2026, including an update on its gaming Xbox business and more.
Not looking good. Hopefully Asha Sharma is able to turn Phil’s disaster around.
To me it's still quite remarkable how they can cash-in 5.3bn in revenue in a single quarter, since their hardware is basically dead.
The stock mark is what makes Microsoft remarkable, They have convinced every institutional and retail investor to just keep piling money into them. Like many big tech giants they are just a big growing pyramid scheme. As long as people keep dropping money into ETF's that cover the market Microsoft will always be liquid. At the same time it is completely stifling innovation and competition. People need to start being more discreet in how they invest their money as it's killing the system.
Riiiiight because people will just flock back to them for one or two games per year.
15+ years of bad performance is what they call irreparable in business. It is time for them to sell off the assets and get out of entertainment.
These declines are on the back of extra revenue received from releasing games like Forza horizon 5 on PlayStation. So I’m being sarcastic here when I said they should go back to exclusives. Killing off a revenue stream from Ps5 sales will only make things worse
The charity event will be streamed live from Gamescom in August.
Thanks to the slip-up of an artist working on the title, we now have more evidence that a new Injustice game is in the works.
Haha pretty cool story man, sounds awesome. I wonder how many celebrities game that often, I doubt there's a huge amount but I'd still say there's a fair few. I think I remember seeing something about Justin Timberlake being a big X360 fan and a few rappers too (not that I'm into that music hah). Who knows, maybe some of us have been in games with others and we just haven't known about it! ;D
Sounds like a cool night, and he sounds pretty amazing person. Glad to see he takes the time out with the "public". Makes me think if ive played or talked to someone well known and not even realized it. I hear Jack Black is crazy for games.
Nice :)
Fred gets all sorts of hate, but I've never seen him being anything but a pretty down to earth bloke. I enjoyed that story.
I would have asked him to sing Break Stuff over XBox Live!