Posts Under XBLA Category

Life is full of mysteries.  Is there a higher power?  What’s up with Area 51?  What would it look like if a Spartan was hell-bent on dismembering a Pirate while dodging pistol fire and well-placed grenades?  Thanks to the new guys on the block, Spike Games, you’ll be able to scratch that last one off [...]

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In 2007, D3Publisher created a role-playing/Bejeweled hybrid called Puzzle Quest that took the gaming world by storm.  Puzzle Quest became famous for being ridiculously addicting and fun.  The cross-genre title had the appeal of an RPG with the replayability of a puzzle game.  On the surface, it may not have made sense, but after spending [...]

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PopCap Games confirmed today its plans to release Plants vs. Zombies for the Xbox Live Arcade.  With an anticipated launch in early September, Plants vs. Zombies on XBLA will deliver more game content than any previous iteration of the franchise, boasting seven game modes, including two all-new multiplayer modes, 12 unique achievements and 21 mini-games. Upon [...]

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Kicking off the 3rd annual Summer of Arcade and releasing this week (July 21), is the game Limbo from Playdead. The game features a dark, black & white art style, where the object of the game is to survive, and to move forward using a very basic control set. Similar in simplicity to N+ and [...]

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The promoters for the Dead Space franchise are at it again, not content to encourage the purchase of a new installment without announcing a prequel to the sequel in the form of Dead Space Ignition. Before everyone’s favorite interstellar handyman even makes it to the massive Sprawl station featured in the main game, a Necromorph [...]

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Update 2: Congrats to the following 3 winners, NODAK, 102Geoff, and kburns10! Update 1: We’ll announce the winners shortly! To kick-off our plans for world domination, what better than to start with giving away 3 copies of RISK: Factions for the Xbox Live Arcade. To enter, simply let us know your favorite board game, whether [...]

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Starting tomorrow, Blacklight: Tango Down and Monkey Island 2 SE will be released on the Xbox Live Arcade at 1200 and 800 MSPoints respectively. Some more information for each title can be found below: Blacklight: Tango Down – 1200 MSPoints (or $15.00) In “Blacklight: Tango Down,” experience the bleeding edge of advanced warfare. Participate in [...]

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Update 1: Looks like the deal is still active. – ^DK Can you believe that everyone’s favorite hedgehog is already 19 years old?  We aren’t experts, but we thought the life expectancy for those little buggers was significantly less.  And don’t even think about making the “Sonic may as well have been dead for years” [...]

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To be honest, I really didn’t know what to expect from Pipeworks and SPIKE Games entry into E3 courtesy of Deadliest Warrior. Based around the successful television program of the same name, the game pits eight historical combatants against one another to finally answer the hard questions life has thrown at us over the years; [...]

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Bounty Hunters are cool. Bobba Fett, The Man With No Name, Spike Spiegel, John Marston, Samus Aran; there’s something about these enigmatic figures and their take-no-prisoners attitude that always guarantees they’ll be at the center of the action. Of course, jet-packs and particle beams certainly move things along, but at the end of the day [...]

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