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Minecraft 360 And Trials Evolution Getting Free Content In Honor Of Summer Of Arcade
Everyone likes free stuff, right? And everyone likes Minecraft 360 and Trials Evolution, right? So that means everyone should be dead happy that Microsoft have announced that in honour of their 5th annual Summer of Arcade they’ll be providing some free content for both games! Hurrah, and other such exclamations of joy and excitement, including […]
Fable Heroes – Review
Xbox Live Arcade Title Price: 800 Developer: LionHead Studios Publisher: Microsoft Singleplayer: Yes Multiplayer: 2-4 player co-op. Thanks to Microsoft for providing a copy of this game for review. Since its humble beginnings in 2004 Fable has become one of the more controversial gaming series to date. While there’s a lot to love about the series, […]
Fez Finally Gets A Release Date!
Having been announced waaaaaaaaay back in 2007 it’s fair to say that fans of Fez, a bonkers platformer that plays in 2d but lets you shift your perspective around to navigate the 3d environment, have been waiting quite some time for the game to finally arrive on Xbox Live Arcade. In the time it has taken for Polytron to finally […]
Microsoft Announce Arcade Next: Trials Evolution, Bloodforge, Fable: Heroes and Minecraft Release Dates Revealed
Microsoft today have revealed that a brand new event will be coming to Xbox Live Arcade in April, bringing with it quite a few games that may just catch your interest. Titled Arcade Next this event……eh, well, it’s just four games released in four weeks, really. But as an added bonus these four titles will […]
Simpsons Arcade Game Coming To XBLA On February 3rd. Achievements Revealed
Xbox 360 Arcade games often have their release dates announced mere weeks or even days before their actual release, but Konami’s announcement that the Simpsons Arcade Game would be releasing on Xbox Live Arcade this Friday, February 3rd, definitely wins the award for being last-minute. The classic title will come with some pretty major upgrades, including 4-player online […]
New XBLA Exclusive Title “Deadlight” In Development
A studio by the name of Tequila Works has announced that they are working on an XBox Live Arcade title called Deadlight, who describe the game as a “cinematic puzzle platformer.” One can guess that this would be in the vein of games such as Braid. A description of the game can be seen on […]
XBLA Daily Deals – Day 1
Not content with giving you a huge stash of deals, Microsoft are also running daily deals aswell with todays being the outstanding XBLA Bastion, which is currently going for 600MSP instead of the 1200MSP. At 600MSP Bastion is a must have for anyone so don’t delay, grab it today! Marketplace Link
Rotastic – Review
Live Arcade Title Price: 800MSP Developer: Dancing Dots Studio Publisher: Focus Home Interactive Singleplayer: Yes Online: Leaderboards Split-screen: Yes. Thank you to Focus Home Interactive for providing a copy of Rotastic for review. According to history tought all over the world the Vikings a people who travelled great distances, traded with other people, killed some […]
Bastion – Review
Xbox Live Arcade Title Price: 1200MSP Singleplayer: Yes Splitscreen: No Co-op: No Multiplayer: No Over the years the graphical prowess of games has continued to climb, yielding further and further technical advancements that allow games to look even more realistically brown, grey and dull. The desire for more “realistic” games has had a huge influence […]
Boulder Dash XL – Review
Xbox Live Arcade Title. Price: 800MSP Singleplayer: Yes Multiplayer: No (Title provided free of charge by the publishers for review) During my time with Boulder Dash XL I learned many things: tunneling is frustrating, hard work. Diamonds are a gamers best friend. And robots can only tunnel from a side-on perspective.
