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Tag Archive | "Xbox Live Arcade"
Death Tank Coming to XBLA This Week
Death Tank is coming to Xbox Live Arcade on Wednesday, February 18th. We’re not talking about the old Sega Saturn version, but a complete remake by Snowblind Studios. If you don’t recall the original it is a lot like Worms, but in real time. For $15 (1200 Microsoft Points), Death Tank supports Xbox Live multiplayer [...]
Continue reading...Fre XBLA Game if You Sign Up for Xbox Live Gold
Monday, December 29, 2008
Microsoft is running a promotion between now and January 5th, 2009. Sign up for an Xbox Live Gold account and they’ll give you a free Xbox Live Arcade game. Sound to good to be true? Well, there are a few stipulations. First, you can’t use a prepaid card to sign up. To qualify you must sign [...]
Continue reading...A Few End of Year Xbox Live Arcade Stats
Wednesday, December 24, 2008
Microsoft decided to wrap up the year by releasing some stats for us about Xbox Live Arcade. Seems like Xbox Live Arcade had a good year and is continuing to grow. Here is the run down: Over 100 million achievements have been unlocked on XBLA That is over 1.25 billion Gamerscore points. Braid is highest rated XBLA game [...]
Continue reading...Deal of the Week and a Free Xbox Live Arcade Game
Tuesday, December 16, 2008
This week’s Xbox Live Marketplace Deal of the Week is Bomberman Live. Bomberman Live is normally $10 (800 Microsoft Points) but starting tomorrow the price will be $7.50 (600 points) for the next week. If you are an Xbox Live member in India, you have a special Holiday deal on Uno. Normally it cost $5 (400 [...]
Continue reading...New Xbox Live Marketplace Releases
Saturday, December 13, 2008
This week brought quite a few new games to the Xbox Live Marketplace. On Xbox Live Arcade PowerUp Forever and Meteos Wars both released Wednesday for $10 (800 Microsoft Points). Bomber Boing and Retro One released on Xbox Live’s Community Games for $5 (400 Microsoft Points) and Couples Sudoku released for $2.50 (200 Microsoft Points). Additionally, [...]
Continue reading...A Kingdom for Keflings (Xbox Live Arcade) Review
Sunday, December 7, 2008
Summary [9 out of 10] I heard this game described an a Chillaxin’ (Chilling/Relaxing) city building simulation. That description describes A Kingdom for Keflings really well. The whole game is about building up a mid-evil city at your own pace. Introduction You are a giant in the land of the Keflings. They are a short race of human-like [...]
Continue reading...Friendship is Free Program Announced for Xbox Live
Friday, December 5, 2008
Someone at Microsoft must really be feeling the holiday spirit because they are continuing to announce more promotional programs. Earlier this week they announced the Deal of the Week Program that is running through December. Today they announced the ‘Friendship is Free’ program. This new program lets Xbox Live Silver Members play 8 Xbox Live [...]
Continue reading...Street Fighter HD confirmed for Realease This Month
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
For those of you Street Fighter fanatics that haven’t heard, Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix will finally be making it’s way on to the PSN and Xbox Live. PSN owners will be able to start honing their skills when the game releases November 25th(Tuesday), an entire day before 360 owners will get a [...]
Continue reading...Three Games Added To Microsoft’s “Arcade Hits” Lineup
Thursday, November 13, 2008
In light of an actual new Arcade release on the Xbox 360, Microsoft has announced that three new Arcade titles will have the honor of joining other classic games in the “Arcade Hits” program. The three games(above) will now be sold for half their original asking price of 800 Microsoft Points. The prices should be in [...]
Continue reading...Vigilante 8: Arcade Releases Tomorrow
Tuesday, November 4, 2008
Vigilante 8: Arcade is coming to Xbox Live Arcade tomorrow. V8: Arcade is a complete remake based on the classic Vigilante 8 and Vigilante 8: Second Offense. For those not familiar with the V8 series it is a vehicle combat same with a 70’s theme. There are 8 different vehicles that you can customize to your [...]
Continue reading...Are 1200 ($15) Microsoft Points The New 800 ($10)?
Monday, October 27, 2008
Up until August there were only 2 games on Xbox Live Arcade that cost over $10. These were Roboblitz, which came out in December 2006 for 1200 points ($15 dollars), and Penny Arcade Adventures, which released this last May for 1600 points ($20 dollars). Since August there have been 3 more titles which all released for [...]
Continue reading...Castle Crashers Getting Patched Soon
Thursday, September 4, 2008
Bought Castle Crashers last week only to be welcomed with broken netcode and a buggy save system? Me too. Thankfully, we’re all in luck as The Behemoth has posted on an update on their developer blog that everyone is hard at work getting an update out that should clear up all the issues us gamers [...]
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Monday, February 16, 2009
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