By DAKing240 |
July 19, 2010 |
Categories: Featured, Reviews, XBLA
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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By Rocketjones |
June 20, 2010 |
Categories: E3'10, XBLA, Xbox 360
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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By DAKing240 |
June 10, 2010 |
Categories: Uncategorized
SEGA announced plans today to bring classic titles from its popular Dreamcast console to the Xbox LIVE Arcade later this year, starting with Sonic Adventure and Crazy Taxi. Each game is based on the original Dreamcast incarnation, featuring all of the gameplay that older players fell in love with, whilst allowing a new audience to [...]
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By Rocketjones |
June 5, 2010 |
Categories: XBLA, Xbox 360
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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By Rocketjones |
May 26, 2010 |
Categories: XBLA, Xbox 360
Gamers looking for a blast from the past need look no further than this week’s release of DOOM II on Xbox LIVE Arcade. Expanding upon the fast paced carnage of the original, DOOM II provided players with new monsters, weapons and horrific new environments. Available on LIVE for 800 MS Points, fans can download this [...]
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By Rocketjones |
May 18, 2010 |
Categories: Reviews, XBLA, Xbox 360
When we got a chance to review a copy of Rocket Knight, courtesy of publisher Konami, I pretty much jumped at the opportunity. The name triggered something in the doldrums of my skull, memories from a time before console wars, high definition visuals or dedicated multiplayer. This was a time when reflexes and cunning were [...]
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By DAKing240 |
January 11, 2010 |
Categories: Xbox 360
Last month, EA Sports teased that a new game was being developed, but failed to describe what game, and for what system they were referring to. Turns out that EA Sports wanted to instead bring a basketball title back from the dead. Today EA Sports made the announcement, that EA Sports NBA Jam was being [...]
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By Donski |
October 2, 2009 |
Categories: Xbox 360
Next Wednesday (October 7th), DoubleSix Games is launching their new Xbox Live Arcade game South Park Let’s Go Tower Defense Play! We received word about a special promotion that South Park Studios is putting on. On their website, they’re offering a code to unlock secret levels to the first 10,000 people that sign up. All they require [...]
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By Donski |
October 1, 2009 |
Categories: Achievements, Xbox 360
Stan, Kyle, Cartman, and Kenny have been a big part of our lives. We’ve watched the South Park quartet for well over a decade now. We’ve seen them defeat Mecha-Streisand, take down Osama Bin Laden, and have a Woodland Critter Christmas. It’s only fair that they get a shot on our Xbox 360s. Well, we [...]
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By DAKing240 |
July 30, 2009 |
Categories: Uncategorized
This week’s comment contest is for the brand new XBLA game, Splosion Man! Fools they were, to tread where knowledge should stay forbidden. For what emerged was not a man – it was a Splosion Man. â€And all who saw him were sploded, for he was the fire and they were but meat.â€Â Able to splode himself [...]
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