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XBLA Wednesday: Sensible Tempest

Tempest First up to the Live Arcade plate this week is Tempest (One of the two inspirations for Space Giraffe, the other being A Whole Lot of Weed, Man.) Vector graphics might have wowed audiences enough in the 80s to distract them from the mostly-boring Spinning Around and shooting game...

XBLA Last Wednesday: Hack 'n Slash Racing

Arkadian Warriors Ex-MMO-addicts like myself will appreciate Arkadian Warriors, which seems to be a simple Diablo-esque action RPG where kindly old NPCs tell you to go to some dungeon and kill 15 whatevers. The demo only features one such quest (The whatevers? Boars.) but I imagine that the re...

Master Chess on the Live Arcade

Ubisoft recently announced that they're bringing a version of their classic Chessmaster series to the Live Arcade. It will include the usual Live port graphical enhancements and a few cool new features like Vision camera support and a modern take on the old tradition of playing-by-mail...

XBLA Wednesday: Asteroids? Asteroids.

They're really digging deep now - this week's Live Arcade release is asteroids . Yes, that Asteroids : Save the earth from a deadly deluge of asteroids and re-experience the beloved arcade classics "Asteroids" and "Asteroids Deluxe" on Xbox LIVE Arcade. Players...

XBLA Wednesday: Undertow

This week's Live Arcade release is Undertow, an underwater Geometry Wars in which you control a member of a team of scuba-diving pirates and battle for control of (aptly named) control points. When you're defeated you pick one of your team's control points to respawn at and a unit typ...

Carcassone: Free Until Tomorrow Night

This week's Live Arcade releases are completely forgettable and Microsoft feels so bad about that that they're giving away a good (dare I say, great?) game for free: Carcassone. Okay, so maybe it's part of their " Xbox Live Turns Five " promotions and not an apology for loos...

Rumor: Geometry Wars Sequel for XBLA's Anniversary

... certification these days), next week we will be playing the "true" sequel to the biggest XBLA title to date. When asked, Microsoft said that they were "too busy playing the new Geome...

XBLA Wednesday: Word Ball

Switchball : In Switchball you take control of a heroic marble, rolling your way across floating stages, battling that ever-present menace: the wooden box. Think Monkey Ball without the monkeys. Or the bananas. It's pleasant enough to roll your marble around the colorful world of Switchball -...

Coming Soon to the XBLA: Games!

...ox Live Arcade? Well, look what I found snuck into a recent press release ...this list of upcoming XBLA titles: • "N+"(Slick Entertainment and Metanet Software) - Play as an acrobatic ninja...

XBLA Wednesday: Mutant Storm Empire

Yet Another Twin-Stick Shooter or not you just might find yourself enjoying this week's Live Arcade release - Mutant Storm Empire. While it's easy enough to ignore the string of Geometry Wars inspired shooters that seem to be cluttering up release lists on a near-weekly basis, Mutant Stor...

Unlock Xbox Betas Ready for Play

... browser . The others run in Flash but are about as interesting as...a crashing web browser. via XBLArcade.com ...

Airburst Coming to XBLA

...lad that I'll soon have the opportunity to utilize this particular time waster some more. via XBLArcade.com ...

Mr. ESC Exits to XBLA Wednesday

...day: Taito's Exit follows the PSP release with over 220 levels, including some exclusive to the XBLA release. The game stars the cel-shaded Mr. ESC, an escape artist tasked with rescuing various c...

Battlestar Galactica thrusts onto PC

...ed PCs in the next week, however, it is apparently not the game fans are looking for, and is more a XBLA (which it is also being released on) "mini game", which seems to be relying on the na...

Battlestar Galactica on XBLA Next Week

Cylons beware - Sierra Online's upcoming Battlestar Galactica game lands on the Live Arcade this week: The overhead space shooter packs ships and settings from the critically acclaimed series, which pits the last remnants of the human race against the Cylon forces, and includes a 10-mission s...

XBLA Wednesday: Every Speedball Extended

It's a weird week for the Live Arcade. Up first is Every Extend Extra Extreme - a sequel to a PSP game: "Every Extend Extra Extreme" from Q Entertainment is a frenetic race for survival. With 100 times more enemies and chain reactions than its predecessor, the objective of this un...

XBLA Wednesday: Puzzle Quest

...monsters and runes outside the main story, short recharge time limits for the most powerful spells, XBLA Achievements and more. Gamer Pics and Themes for the game are available through Xbox LIVE® Mark...

XBLA Last Wednesday: Tetris Splash

tetris addicts looking for their next fix will be more than happy to pony up the 800 MS Points for Tetris Splash on the Live Arcade. And then 50 MS Points each for all of the "fish packs" you can buy to add...fish(?) to the game. Okay, so maybe they'll skip the fish. I love ...

New Carcassonne Expansion on XBLA

A new carcassonne expansion called King & Baron was quietly released on the Live Marketplace this week. In addition to seven new tiles the expansion also adds some scoring changes - the player with the largest city is the "King" and gains additional points at the end game f...

XBLA Last Wednesday: Geon Emotions

This week's Live Arcade game was Geon: Emotions, where you play the role of a heroic die who must...roll around a grid? Geon: Emotions Eidos 800 points Rated E for Everyone Love it? Hate it? Does it make you angry? Does it calm you down? Feel the energy of powerful emotions as you compete a...

Price for Puzzle Quest XBLA Revealed

While a release date for the Xbox Live Arcade port of the Nintendo DS/PSP underground hit Puzzle Quest is still TBA, Microsoft (accidentally?) revealed the game's price in a recent Xbox Flash email - 1200 Spacebucks (or, $20 US.) Which is a pretty good deal, I guess. I would have liked to se...

Indie Platformer Braid Coming to XBLA

...he game's creators gave at GDC this year (the gameplay starts about 15 minutes in): via XBLArcade.com ...

XBLA Wednesday: Sonic 2

What's this? Another Sega game on the Live Arcade for three bucks cheaper than the Wii Virtual Console version and with added online features? Why, um, yes it is : With his new Super Spin Dash and "Tails" the Fox, Sonic is back and better than ever in Sonic The Hedgehog 2! Defy gr...

XBLA Wednesday: Fatal Fury & Cyberball

It's a port-tacular week for the Xbox Live Arcade - this Wednesday will bring the release of Fatal Fury Special and Cyberball 2072: Rediscover the arcade classic game "Cyberball 2072™" from Midway on Xbox LIVE® Arcade. Take control of your robotic team, and call the plays to move ...

Penny Arcade Game on XBLA in 2008

At the Penny Arcade Expo last weekend Hothead Games announced that the upcoming penny arcade game (the subtitle-rich Penny Arcade Adventures: On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness: Episode One ) will be appearing on the Xbox Live Arcade in the beginning of 2008. Impatient gamers with a P...

XBLA Wednesday: SPFIITHDR

... No, that's not the sound you make when chewing on pinecones - this week's XBLA release is none other than Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo HD remix : One of the most popular puzzle games...

Unlock Xbox Finalists All Insane

The Unlock Xbox website has been updated with a list of the five finalists in their make-a-game-about-chips-and-win-nothing competition. And what deserving finalists they are! I bet you can't wait to play the new indie darling PB's Quest for Flavor: Character is a Pill bug named PB in s...

XBLA Wednesday: Space Giraffe

... This week the XBLA gets two full games and there's not a single crappy arcade port to be seen. The first release is Space Giraffe, a shooter that may or may not take place in space but doesn&...

XBLA Wednesday: Dolphin Edition

The Live Arcade steals another game from the Virtual Console this week - ECCO the Dolphin. And just like the other Sega classic releases the Live Arcade version is $3 US cheaper and comes with better features : Gamers can also travel through time this Wednesday with "Ecco the Dolph...

1UP Talks N With Metanet

...till burning the midnight oil to implement new features. Like, say, sharing user-made maps: For the XBLA version, Sheppard admits things are a little trickier: "We're still trying to figure o...

XBLA Wednesday: Track and Field

... Yes, I'm late with XBLA Wednesday again. Don't worry, though, it's not like anything cool came out - just Track and Field . Yes, that Track and Field. The one your cousin had on the ...

Etch A Sketch for XBLA?

According to a press release on Evil Avatar Indian developer Gameshastra has scored the rights to convert everyone's favorite knob-twisting drawing toy, the Etch A Sketch, into a game for the PC, Mac, and possibly xbox live Arcade: HYDERABAD, India, July 30, 2007: Gameshastra, India&...

XBLA Wednesday: Marathon Chess

This week the Live Arcade gets its next Uno - Spyglass board games : # Full featured games: Four classic board games to choose from. Play Chess, Checkers, Mancala, or Reversi. # Video integration with Xbox LIVE Vision camera: Fully integrated video chat lets you see your opponent. Use th...

XBLA Last Wednesday: Wing Commander Arena & Contra

... XBLA Wednesday is late this week as I wanted to wait until my 360 got back from the repair center before blogging about the release of Wing Commander Arena for the Live Arcade - I've been a fan...

Rare Says XBLA Profits Slow and Steady

...is a tendency to drop down to a few hundred sales a day, and then just stay at that for as long as [XBLA] hosts it," Burton said. So then you have a guaranteed - small, but still reasonable reve...

XBLA (Last) Wednesday: Bomberman Fu

With my 360 on its way to that big repair facility in the sky (err, in Texas) I managed to miss this week's Live Arcade releases . It's probably for the better that I found out about them two days late, though - that's two days I didn't have to know that Bomberman friggin' Li...

XBLA Wednesday: Two Sega Classics

While software pirates everywhere have been using emulation to play videogame ROMs on systems they weren't intended for since the 1990s, it wasn't until recently that Sega discovered they could use the same technology to sell you those same games. And that's what we get on the Live ...

XBLA Wednesday: Missile Command

This week's Live Arcade release is a bare-bones port of the Atari classic missile Command. It's got the standard laundry list of features: remade 3D graphics, a mode where you can play the original game, 200 achievement points, blah blah blah. Missile Command has been done to death...

XBLA Wednesday: Carcassone

Heads up, Catan Fans -- here comes another digital port of a European board game eager to suck up your Live Arcading hours. This week's Live Arcade release is Carcassone , a tile-based game in which up to five players compete for...something (points?)...by doing...something (with tiles!). I&...

Design a Live Arcade Game about Chips, Win Nothing

Finally, an outlet for that great crunchy-and-cheesy GAME idea that you've been mapping out in your school notebooks: Unlock Xbox from Microsoft and Doritos. How does it work? 1. Submit your Doritos-inspired game idea. 2. Five submissions will be developed into playable betas. Gamers ...

Beautiful Katamari Not a Downloadable Title

...t a download on Xbox Live Arcade, as previously reported. GameSpot regrets the error. -Eds.] via XBLArcade ...

XBLA Wednesday: Band of Bugs

And now for something different: this week's Live Arcade release, Band of Bugs , is a turn-based tactical strategy game. Think Final Fantasy Tactics or Front Mission but replace the knights and giant robots with grasshoppers and beetles . Here's a video that shows the game and the inc...

Bomberman Live Hands-On Roundup

...evious games were mostly in a 2-D (or pseudo 3-D from the three-quarters-overhead perspective), the XBLA interpretation features 3-D (though simple-looking) models that are nicely animation, and the p...

XBLA Wednesday: Prince of Persia Classic

We're used to seeing arcade oldies retooled for the Xbox Live Arcade but this week we're getting a different kind of classic: Prince of Persia. While nowadays the Prince runs around in three dimensions and magically rewinds time, Prince of Persia Classic takes you back to the sid...

XBLA Wednesday: Pac Man Championship Edition

Isn't there already a Pac Man title on the Live Arcade? Maybe, but that's not going to stop Namco from selling you another one -- this "Championship Edition" of the original arcade game has a bunch of extra modes and "updated" graphics that I am sure you will either l...

New Catan Skin Recreates Board Game

Tired of staring at the same old tiles and cards in Catan? ...Yeah, me neither -- but if you've got 150 points burning a hole in your Xpocket360 feel free to download the new "Mayfair" skin pack , which digitally recreates the art from the original board game. The core game ...

XBLA Wednesday: Mad Tracks

Now here's a racer I can enjoy -- Mad Tracks is an original title in which you race tiny Hot- wheels -esque toy cars around elaborate tracks set up in environments like toy stores and restaraunts. The physics are decidedly unrealistic and there's a dozen power-ups ranging from heat...

PSP's Exit Coming to XBLA

... XBLArcade brings us the news that Taito has announced (by way of Famitsu) a port of their platforming-puzzler Exit for the Xbox Live Arcade. In Exit you play a stylized characted named Mr. Esc --...

XBLA Wednesday: Xevious + Rush 'n Attack

Microsoft returns to the arcades of the 80s for this week's Live Arcade releases -- the vertical shooter Xevious and the historically-inaccurate-but-pun-rich Rush 'n Attack: "Rush 'n Attack" will be available worldwide for 400 Microsoft Points and is rated E10+. Game Fe...

XBLA Wednesday: Solitaire & Aegis Wing

... What's more exciting than a two-game Xbox Live Arcade Wednesday? An XBLAW where one of the games is free! Cheapskates rejoice -- Aegis Wing , a 2D shooter with online multiplayer for up to 4 p...

Six Upcoming XBLA Games

The Gamerscore Blog offers us the details on six upcoming Xbox Live Arcade titles: ·"Mad Tracks." This 3-D racing party game from Load Inc. and D3Publisher recalls all the fun of playing with toy cars from childhood. Up to four players can race micro cars in a variety of gameplay mode...

XBLA Wednesday: Double Dragon

The two-games-a-week streak had to end eventually -- this week's lonely release is Double Dragon : "Double Dragon," from Empire Interactive Ltd., is a genuine re-creation of the classic coin-op arcade game. For the first time ever, fans of the franchise can play "Double Dragon&...

XBLA Wednesday: Centipede and Catan

I don't know what kind of strange world we live in now but this Wednesday we'll be seeing our third week in a row of double-releases on the Xbox Live Arcade in the form of Catan and a Centipede/Millipede two-in-one. Centipede/Millipede is Yet Another Arcade Port (YAAP) but Catan is somethi...

XBLA Wednesday: Two Games Again?

... Was it only two months ago that we had weeks with no XBLA releases at all ? Truly, the times have changed, as tomorrow will mark our second week of consecutive two-game Wednesdays with the release...

XBLA Wednesday: Gyruss and Golf

No, you're not dreaming. There really are two games coming to Live Arcade this week. And the madness doesn't stop there -- they both look like they might be fun! First up is a port of arcade classic Gyruss. It's got all the standard arcade-to-Live-Arcade updates you expect by now: ...

XBLA Wednesday: Boom Boom Rocket

The cold hard facts on today's Live Arcade release: The addictive and original " Boom Boom Rocket" is the first music-rhythm game to appear on Xbox Live Arcade. Players trigger rockets to the beat of the music while traveling through a 3D cityscape. The better the player time...

XBLA Wednesday: Luxor 2

...ymphony of the Night, but I'm sure this is exciting to someone -- Luxor 2 is this week's XBLA release : In the second installment of the No. 1 casual game of 2005, " luxor 2"...

Jetpac Refuelled on Live Arcade

With the great releases we've seen on the Live Arcade lately I suppose it was bound to happen -- we're back to crappy ports of old arcade games. This week's victim ? Jetpac Refuelled : Rare's Jetpac Refuelled is a revamped and modernized version of the 1983 classic space bla...

XBLA Wednesday: Castlevania!

And the hits just keep coming -- this Wednesday will see the release of the PlayStation epic Castlevania: Symphony of the Night on the Live Arcade, for a mere 800 Microsoft Monopoly Points ($10, US.) Here's the good parts of the press release : Celebrate more than two decades of the Castl...

Live Arcade Tetris in Development

...hile, what features will make Tetris Evolution benefit from a retail release as opposed to being an XBLA download? RS: I can't really speak for the Xbox Live Arcade version. We've known fo...

TMNT on XBLA Today

The ninja Turtles arcade game landed on the Live Arcade this morning -- here's the interesting parts of the press release: ... Gamers will have the unique opportunity to play through the original seven levels alone, or with up to three others co-operatively via Xbox LIVE. "Te...

XBS Reviews: Worms

Worms hit last Wednesday and I've played it every day since -- sure, I'm already a fan of the franchise, but I think that even the skeptical could find some fun in killing friends and strangers with exploding sheep and clusterbomb bananas. Online play with up to four players (that's s...

TMNT 2 on XBLA Actually Confirmed

The Gamerscore Blog has the details: Today Ubisoft, one of the world's largest video game publishers, announced that in celebration of the Teenage Mutant ninja Turtles™(TMNT) franchise and the launch of its upcoming TMNT™ video game March 20, it is releasing the Teenage Mutant Ninja ...

Live Arcade File Size Limit Tripled; New 512MB Memory Card

.....$50? You know, half the price of the (also incredibly overpriced) 20GB 360 hard drive. Hmm. via XBLArcade.com ...

TMNT 2 on XBLA Practically Confirmed

When Microsoft asks you to please take down those screenshots you have of our new game, it usually doesn't mean that the game -in-question is just a rumor. While the pictures might be gone, we do have an excellent movie of the game in action to show you. Which is, as you know, a tho...

1UP Previews WC Arena

...l Wing Commander game, the faster-paced arcade style of gameplay is probably better suited for an XBLA title. I'm looking forward to trying this one out myself....

Rumor: TMNT Coming to XBLA

Now here's an arcade-to-Live-Arcade port I can get excited about -- 360style.net received an anonymous tip that the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles arcade game would be hitting the Live Arcade soon, and attached a pair of convincing screenshots: Fake? It could be, but I wouldn't be...

Wing Commander is Back! WC Arena Coming to XBLA

Games Are Fun brings us the good news: wing Commander is back, and headed to the Xbox Live Arcade. The new title is called Wing Commander Arena and will focus on multiplayer dogfights with up to 16 players. There will be a single player mode, but I think it's safe to assume that it...

Microsoft Doesn't Want You to Play Worms

...ere's worms ? Team 17's Martyn Brown had this to say: "The delay with Worms for XBLA has been as frustrating for Team17 as it has been for the very many players eager to see it'...