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Fez To Get Awesome On XBLA "Early 2010"
Polytron's Fez is coming (finally!) to Xbox Live Arcade next year, the independent developer announced today. Yes, that will be a long wait on top of what seems like an already long wait for the gorgeous puzzle-platformer. More » -
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This Week On Live Arcade: Worms And The King Of Fighters
Two completely different types of combat hit the Xbox Live Arcade service this week, with Worms 2: Armageddon and The King of Fighters '98 Ultimate Match. More » -
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Madballs in Babo Invasion Preview: A Game With Balls
The old tagline for the Madballs collectible toys of the 1980s was "Obnoxious And Gross!" which should tell you a lot about both the 80s and what to expect from squishy balls with disgusting faces. More » -
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Serious Sam Reborn In HD For Xbox Live Arcade
Developer Croteam has worked up a new version of its CroTech Engine in order to deliver Serious Sam: The First Encounter HD to the Xbox Live Arcade. More » -
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Worms 2: Armageddon Crawls To Live Arcade Next Week
When Team 17 tells us that a game is coming out "real soon", they mean real soon, with the proper sequel to 1991's Worms Armageddon hitting Xbox Live Arcade a week from today. More » -
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This Week In Live Arcade: Garou Marks And Droplitz
Puzzles and punches come to Xbox Live Arcade this week, with the release of SNK's beloved fighter Garou: Mark of the Wolves, and Atlus' Xbox Live Arcade debut, Droplitz. More » -
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Play Xbox Live Magic: The Gathering Live Against Game's Creator
So you think you're a pretty good Magic: The Gathering player, but are you good enough to take on the creator of the game in Magic: The Gathering - Duels of the Planeswalkers? More » -
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Worms 2: Armageddon Trailer Full Of Armageddonness
Even more classic Worms-style gameplay is coming to Xbox Live Arcade with Worms 2: Armageddon, a proper numerical sequel to Team17's 1999 classic turn-based strategy game Worms Armageddon. More » -
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The Rocket Riot Begins Tomorrow
Rockets will fire, pixels will fly, and zombies, pirates, and ninja will die as Codeglue's Rocket Riot makes its way onto Xbox Live Arcade tomorrow. More » -
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This Week In Arcade: Sam And Magic: The Gathering
Sam & Max Save the World this week on Xbox Live Arcade, just in time for Magic: The Gathering - Duels of the Planeswalkers to come along and ruin it. More » -
voot, there it ain't
Here's Your $300 Stick to Play a $15 Game [Updated]
So, Virtual On: Oratorio Tangram has a "devoted fanbase," which in peripheral makers' lexicon means "cash geyser." The XBLA title runs $15; Hori's custom stick costs 20 times that. But it misses a big point. More » -
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So, How Many People Actually Buy Stuff Over XBLA Or The PSN?
Digital delivery of games and gaming content is the inevitable future. But how prevalent is it in the present? The NPD Group estimate that, as it stands, digital downloads on a console are doing...OK. More » -
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New TMNT Game Is 360 Timed Exclusive
Yay! More timed exclusives! Thanks, Microsoft. The latest title to piss off half the gaming world with a staggered release is one of the new Ninja Turtles games. More » -
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'Splosion Man Is A Cool Guy Made Of Explosions
File 'Splosion Man under "E3 Games I Wish I'd Played." Apparently, it was there, but I was too busy waiting in line and watching hands-off demos. After seeing the game's E3 trailer, I'm more than a little bothered. More » -
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Sega Vintage Collection 2 Games Hit Xbox Live Arcade
Sega fans with a taste for the company's console and arcade heyday should beat feet over to Xbox Live Marketplace, as the latest Sega Vintage Collection retro hits have been released. What's on tap? More » -
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Joy Ride Preview: Take It Easy
Avatars, long-caged in Xbox 360 waiting rooms, finally have a chance to cut loose on dirt race tracks, better still Joy Ride is free for Xbox Live members. More » -
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Grapple Buggy Hands-On: Swingin' Through VALD-END 317
Nathan Fouts' Grapple Buggy immediately conjures up warm, fuzzy feelings of Bionic Commando, Super Metroid, Contra III: The Alien Wars and Blaster Master. Damn good retro company to be kept in. More » -
xbox 360
Taking A Closer Look At Last.fm On The Xbox 360
News of a deal that brings Last.fm to the Xbox 360 was kind of lost in the flood of information coming out of Microsoft's E3 press conference last week. So let's go back to it. More » -
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Perfect Dark XBLA Looks Sharp, No Expansion Pak Required
Rare's Nintendo 64 first-person shooter Perfect Dark is coming to Xbox Live Arcade later this year. Winter, says Microsoft. This is what it looks like. More » -
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Tecmo Surprises Us With Fret Nice, The Guitar Controller Platformer
Fret Nice, the indie platformer that you play with a Guitar Hero a controller—or possibly with a Rock Band guitar controller—is coming to a console near you, thanks to Tecmo. More » -
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New And Old Monkey Island Adventures In The Works
The rumors of a remake of the original Monkey Island for Xbox Live Arcade are true, but it gets much better, as LucasArts and Telltale team up to deliver all-new episodic Monkey Island adventures. More » -
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Shadow Complex: Orson Scott Card's Empire Meets Super Metroid
Undertow developer Chair Entertainment has been hard at work on video games based on Orson Scott Card's Empire novel, the first of which is likely to be the recently trademarked Shadow Complex.
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Next Week On Live Arcade: Wallace, Gromit, and Yosumin Live
It's Memorial Day weekend, so Microsoft has gone ahead and revealed next week's Xbox Live Arcade titles so they can completely devote Monday to memorializing. More » -
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Star Trek D-A-C Micro-Review
Riding the warp trail of the smash hit J.J. Abrams movie comes Star Trek D-A-C, a top-down space shooter for Xbox Live Arcade. More » -
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Xbox Live Arcade This Week: Gel and Blazing Birds
It's obscure game week on Xbox Live Arcade, with Wednesday seeing the release of Gastronaut Studio's Gel: Set & Match and Vector 2 Games' Blazing Birds. More » -
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XBLA 80s Classics Drop to $3 on Amazon
Amazon's digital games section is worth keeping an eye on. Now and then the retailers drops the price of digital download games below what you'd find on the console. More » -
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Original Wolfenstein 3D Coming To Xbox Live Arcade
The silliest, the biggest, the baddest Wolfenstein of them all, the original Wolfenstein 3D, is due for a release over Xbox Live Arcade, a product page on the service's website has revealed. More » -
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900,000 Castle Crashers And Counting
As of this weekend more than 900,000 players have crashed castles in The Behemoth's Xbox Live Arcade title Castle Crashers. Can you guess when they'll hit the one million mark? More » -
Star Trek D-A-C
Kobayashi Maru Teaches You To Cheat
Star Trek D-A-C launches on Xbox Live Arcade tomorrow—and if you're clever enough to press the right combination of buttons to trigger a currently unannounced cheat code, you can score the Kobayashi Maru Achievement. More » -
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Star Trek D-A-C, Texas Cheat 'Em Beam To Xbox Live Arcade This Week
This week's new additions to the Xbox Live Arcade library are both out of this world and down to earth, as Star Trek D-A-C and Texas Cheat 'Em become Xbox 360 digital downloads on Wednesday. More » -
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Marvel: Marvel vs. Capcom 2 Slated For June Release
In its financial report, comic book giant Marvel dated the re-release of classic fighter Marvel vs. Capcom 2. That date is June 29. More » -
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Space Invaders, Arkanoid Doh Live Arcade, Extremely
The Taito corporation double teams Xbox Live Arcade this week with the release of two high-definition remakes. Arkanoid Live! and Space Invaders Extreme lead the week's new additions, with Zombie Wranglers bringing up the rear. More » -
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Turtles In Time In Action
Experience footage of the Xbox Live Arcade remake of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles in Time they way it was meant to be seen - in shaky, cell phone format. More » -
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Forza 3 Event Spits Out Another Perfect Dark Tease
Last week's Xbox 360 event in Sao Paolo, which teased Forza 3, also spun off another rumor tidbit: That pic, sent over to Destructoid, which is the second in-the-wild sighting of Perfect Dark on XBLA. More » -
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Invincible Tiger: The Legend of Han Tao Preview: An Eyes-on Experience
There's nothing especially remarkable about a side-scrolling kung-fu fighting game – unless it's in stereoscopic 3D. More » -
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Virtual On 360 GamePlay Clip May, Yes, Virtually Turn You On
Free of cutscenes, title screens and marketing fluff, here's 90 seconds of gameplay footage from Sega's upcoming HD re-release of Virtual On: Oratorio Tangram for the Xbox 360. More » -
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Star Trek D-A-C Preview: Boldly Going Where Others Have Been Before
Xbox Live Arcade and PlayStation Network lend themselves to quick, pretty games with multiplayer – and that's exactly what Star Trek D-A-C aims to be. More » -
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Xbox Live Arcade Not Sorry! About Bringing Virtual On
The Xbox Live Arcade library expands this week with the highly anticipated arrival of much beloved classics Cyber Troopers Virtual On Oratorio Tangram from Sega and Banjo Tooie from Rare. It also gets... Sorry! More » -
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Virtual On Out (Again) Next Week
In case you couldn't tell, we're excited about the impending return of Virtual On, with Oratorio Tangram about to be released on Xbox Live Arcade eight years after first appearing on the Dreamcast. More » -
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The New Military Madness Looks Quite Sane
As a big fan of the Military Madness released on the TurboGrafx-16—many, many days were spent in an attempt to secure the Earth's moon by sheer military force—I'm looking forward to the newest version. More »












































