Tag Archives: xbox live arcade

SEGA has just confirmed earlier rumors that it plans to bring its old school arcade racing series back into the limelight with a new XBLA and PSN release. More »

Think Xbox Live Arcade has peaked? You’re wrong, according to the analysts.

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Final Fight: Double Impact has had its price halved as the Xbox Live Deal of the Week.

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Following its CES 2011 press event, Microsoft decided to crank the excitement up by announcing the Xbox Live Arcade House Party. The event brings with it five new downloadable releases, the cream of which is indubitably the classic Beyond Good & Evil HD and addictive Torchlight.

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5th Cell’s announced its new title, a third-person shooter known as Hybrid.

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Super Meat Boy is currently basking in a warm critical reception ahead of its launch tomorrow. As a way of trying to entice a solid release for the brutally hard platformer, developer Team Meat has brokered a lower “price” with Microsoft, for October at least.

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Here’s your 24-hour notice: DOOM 2 is releasing on Xbox Live Marketplace tomorow.

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Digiex has leaked shots from several unannounced Arcade games that look set for a release soon, including Sonic Adventure and Crazy Taxi.

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Rare boss Mark Betteridge has told CVG that the release of Perfect Dark is just the beginning of what the studio could bring to Xbox Live Arcade: something that has “no shortages of possibilities.”

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Nelson’s confirmed that this weeks Arcade games will be Eps 2, 3 and 4 of Wallace & Gromit.

All of which will go for 800 MS points.

And thats your Arcade round-up for this week. Happy New Year!

Nelson’s confirmed that this week, your lot for Arcade will be South Park: Lets Go Tower Defense Play and Lucidity.

They’ll both cost 800 MS points each.

There you have it.

After noting that C&C 3′ Commander’s Challenge pack weighed in at a whopping 2GB, IGN asked Microsoft about Xbox Live Arcade games’ recent growth spurt.

The Xbox creator responded by saying that 2GB is the “technical limit” of the current system behind XBLA games. Conversely, the Games on Demand section of Xbox Live uses a different system, so it can handle bigger files.

So now you know.

Nelson‘s confirmed that Trials HD will be this week’s game of choice for Xbox Live Arcade.

It’ll be out on Wednesday for 1200 MS points.

Still undecided on buying it? EG published it’s review this morning and got a nine.

You have no excuse now.

The Major has announced that a cut-price Ikaruga is the latest Xbox Live Deal of the Week.

Normally at 800MS Points, the game is now at 400 for the next week. Remember, it’s for Gold members only.

Get it here.

MTV Multiplayer got a chance to speak with Chair Entertainment about its upcoming Xbox Live Arcade side-scroller Shadow Complex. According to Chair co-founder Donald Mustard, his company’s game will be beatable in under two hours!

This, of course, conflicts with prior reports, which stated that running the game’s gauntlet would take anywhere from 10-15 hours. However, that’s also correct. As it turns out, Chair is including “sequence breaks” in its game. A sort of gaming artifact, sequence breaks allow players of games like Metroid to slip past sections of a game and acquire certain items before they’re supposed to.

Granted, sequence breaks are normally exploits discovered by players, but Chair claims it’s included the possibility of sequence breaks in the development of its game. Thus, the developer hopes Shadow Complex becomes the talk of the speed running town, and has even included an achievement for players who complete the game in under two hours.

Back in our day, we didn’t get any rashin-frashin points for speed runs, and we liked it. Kids these days.

More through the link.

Looks like the usual suspects rounded out the top five Live titles this week.  Whatever would we do if Call of Duty or Halo missed the list?  Check to make sure the earth was still rotating, most likely.

1. CoD: World at War
2. Halo 3
3. Call of Duty 4
4. Gears of War 2
5. Left 4 Dead
6. GTA IV
7. Fallout 3
8. FIFA 09
9. Guitar Hero World Tour
10. Madden NFL 09

Top Arcade Titles (purchased)

1. The Maw
2. Castle Crashers
3. Worms
4. Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix
5. UNO
6. A Kingdom for Keflings
7. Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3
8. Braid
9. Banjo-Kazooie
10. Bomberman Live

The game hits XBLA on September 24 and we reckon it’s looking pretty darn good.

“Go get some” after the break.

By Mike Bowden

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Announced, detailed, and soon – according to Shacknews — delivered; Duke Nukem XBLA is an exemplary figure in this otherwise delay-heavy industry.

The undeniably 3D adventure will blast its way onto XBLA on September 24, showing another game starring a certain unrealistically muscular, wise-cracking FPS hero how it’s done. Really, where is Serious Sam 3 anyway?

By Nathan Grayson

Penny Arcade, has revealed a new character called the Hat Spider which with feature in the next episode of the Penny Arcade series on XBox Live Arcade.

“The vicious Hat Spider is a deadly new foe. As ferocious as he is fashionable. Just because you’re an eight-legged nightmare doesn’t mean you can’t accessorise, say,” says the piece.

Part 2 will be playable at this year’s PAX if you’re interested. More through the link.

By Mike Bowden