Kotaku: Summer Of Arcade

It Looks Like Metroid Starring a Flying Saucer, But it Plays a Little Differently

Stephen Totilo — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 13:40:00 EDT

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This is Your 2011 Summer of Arcade Lineup

Mike Fahey — Mon, 06 Jun 2011 16:10:46 EDT

Every year Microsoft selects a handful of Xbox Live Arcade games it considers the very best the platform has to offer and releases them once a week as part of the Summer of Arcade promotion. With Ubisoft's From Dust and Fuelcell's Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet making the cut this time around, we're in for one hell of a summer. More »

Monday Night Combat Review: The Happy Warriors

Owen Good — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 18:20:00 EDT

Turrets. I can't stop building and upgrading them in Monday Night Combat. Oh, they do a great job mowing down bots and other players. But it's really because I'm a Southern boy and a born sucker for Pitgirl's saucy accent. More »

Monday Night Combat Provides Athletic Support

Owen Good — Sun, 08 Aug 2010 18:30:00 EDT

As just mentioned in TWiG, Monday Night Combat arrives on Xbox Live Arcade this Wednesday. This developer's diary gives a 14-minute look at gameplay, all of it under the Support class, who brings plenty of neat toys to the game. More »

Monday Night Combat: The Game So Nice They Certified It Twice

Owen Good — Sun, 08 Aug 2010 14:00:00 EDT

Insiders noted that Monday Night Combat had yet to send out review codes, giving rise to bad-news theories about the game's release. All that's going on, says Uber Entertainment, is some post-release support pre-release. More »

Hydro Thunder Hurricane Review: I'm On A Boat & It's Going Fast

Owen Good — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 17:20:00 EDT

It's a summer ritual: Insert coin, stomp on the accelerator and hold on for dear life. A reboot of the much loved arcade original and Dreamcast speedboat racer, Hydro Thunder Hurricane brings that template to Xbox Live's Summer of Arcade. More »

The Assassin's Green in Monday Night Combat

Owen Good — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 19:20:00 EDT

Continuing the tour of class warfare in Monday Night Combat, Uber Entertainment today introduced us to the Assassin, the fastest character type in the upcoming class-based shooter for Xbox Live Arcade, packing both cloak and dagger. More »

Get Blitzed with Monday Night Combat

Owen Good — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 18:30:00 EDT

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Monday Night Combat, the class-based shooter coming soon from Uber Entertainment, is one of the "Summer of Arcade" titles releasing over five weeks beginning in July. Here is the game's E3 trailer and some new screens detailing its Blitz mode. More »

Buy The Summer Of Arcade, Get $10 Back

Mike Fahey — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 12:40:00 EDT

Microsoft wants to pay you $10 for purchasing all five of the games showcased in this year's Summer of Arcade promotion. More »

The Rising Price Of XBLA Games

Stephen Totilo — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 16:00:56 EDT

The average price of Xbox Live Arcade games on the Xbox 360 has risen by a $1.74 since the Xbox 360 launched in November of 2005, according to Kotaku's study of prices for more than 200 XBLA games. More »

TMNT: Turtles In Time Re-make Knocked Back By 'Splosion Man

Michael McWhertor — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 18:40:47 EDT

Here's the bad news: the Xbox Live Arcade remake of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles In Time has been pushed back, now no longer the first entry in Microsoft's "Summer of Arcade" promotion. Now the good. More »

Summer Of Arcade Massive Success

Mike Fahey — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 13:20:00 EDT

So Microsoft's Xbox 360 Summer of Arcade promotion has come and gone, a five-week blitz of the best that Xbox Live Arcade has to offer, all part of a commitment made by the company at E3 to shift their focus more towards quality rather than quantity. According to a media alert issued today by Microsoft, the push was a massive success, with a 58% increase in Xbox Live members purchasing games over the course of the month, shattering the monthly revenue high for XBLA by 67%. More »

XBLA's Summer Plans - From Geometry Wars 2 To Castle Crashers

Mike Fahey — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 12:40:00 EDT

It might be the end of July, but over at Xbox Live Arcade the summer is just starting! This week sees the official kick off of the Summer of Arcade, five weeks of blockbuster Xbox Live Arcade releases to help ease us into the traditional fall gaming explosion. They'll be kicking things off with Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved 2 (800 MS points), the sequel to one of the best games on the Xbox 360 period. More »