Xbox Live Arcade

Xbox Live Arcade headlines

• Xbox Summer of Arcade: Hybrid out now

  Hybrid, the next release for Microsoft’s Summer of Arcade season is out now.

• PEGI outs Dragon's Lair for XBLA

  Europe’s PEGI ratings board appears to have outed an Xbox Live Arcade release of the 80’s classic Dragon’s Lair.

• Report: XBLA achievements limit set to increase to 400

  X360A is reporting that Microsoft is to expand the limit of achievements in Xbox Live Arcade titles from 200 points to 400.

• SEGA announces rerelease of Daytona USA on XBLA, PSN

  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.

• Xbox Live Arcade still to peak, says analysts

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

• Final Fight: Double Impact half price on XBLA this week only

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

• Beyond Good & Evil HD, Torchlight join Xbox Live Arcade House Party

  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.

• 5th Cell announces Hybrid for Xbox Live Arcade - first trailer inside

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

• Super Meat Boy to launch at discount price, will rise in Nov

  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.

• DOOM 2 available on XBLA tomorrow

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

• Crazy Taxi, Sonic Adventure outed for Xbox Live Arcade

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

• Rare: "No shortage of possibilities" in bringing other IP to XBLA

  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.”

• Wallace & Gromit eps are this week's Arcade games

  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!

• This weeks XBLA games is South Park, Lucidity

  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.

• 2GB is size limit for XBLA, says Microsoft

  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 […]

• XBLA game for this week is Trials HD

  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.

• Xbox Live Deal of the Week is Ikaruga

  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.

• Shadow Complex takes 10-15 hours to beat, but is beatable in two hours -- wait, what?

  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. […]

• World at War heads up Live chart for week of January 26

  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. CoD: World at War Halo 3 Call of Duty 4 Gears of War 2 Left 4 Dead […]