Posts By John Drawdy

As many of you know already, Fruit Ninja Kinect was confirmed earlier today as one of the Summer of Arcade games. Now that it is official, there’s nothing more …
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iCandy is developed and published by Dandysoft. It was released on the Xbox Live Marketplace May 3, 2011 and cost 80MSP. A copy of the game was provided by the developer for review purposes.

iCandy is a board based, puzzle style game. This concept is a little different and makes for quit a challenge, you must place a candy square on every block of the board. This sounds simple enough, but the challenge comes in when you have to start matching the color and candy style of all blocks. You can complete a straight line, which makes the whole row disappear, but you have to keep in mind to keep all colors on the board and playable. 25 levels, 9 pretty girls, and trophies await you in this candy packed puzzler.

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Castlevania: Symphony of the Night was developed by Konami. It was ported by Digital Eclipse and published by Microsoft Game Studios. It was released on March 21, 2007 and costs 800MSP.

Castlevania: Symphony of the Night was originally released for the PlayStation in 1997 with everything we had grown to expect from the Castlevania series. You are Alucard and are slated to kill Dracula before he follows through with his evil plans. Pitted with this mission you will take on all kinds of enemies including giant wolves, skeletons and even death himself, the Grim Reaper. With a plethora of weapons, armor, magic and items at your disposal can you stop Dracula before it is to late.

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We’ve got lots of news about Section 8: Prejudice that should make every fan smile. First the Overdrive map pack went live today, which you can download from Xbox Live Marketplace for 320MSP. What a lot of people didn’t know the TimeGate Studios kinda just slipped in there is that from Friday at 1AM till Monday 1AM, it will be double XP time. So strap on your jet pack and get ready to drop into a experience filled weekend.
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Early this morning we brought you all the info we knew about Crimson Allinace; the next title coming from Certain Affinity. Of course no sooner do we drop the news, Certain Affinity dropped this here new trailer.
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Zombie Studios is working on the next Blacklight game in the series and has decided to take it to a whole new market. They are now releasing it as a free-to-play (FTP) game. What is this you ask; this means that the game itself is free, but they charge you for; visual upgrades, special weapons and some items. With this module recently being aproved by Microsoft for arcade games; may this be one of the first in its format?
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Zombie Studios; the guys behind Saw and Blacklight: Tango Down, have now been hired by Top Cow to make this adaption of the comic book. Hunter-Killer is a comic …
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Recently on the Australian rating boards, we saw a new game from Certain Affinity pop up called Crimson Alliance. Certain Affinity has had there hands in many, many things over the years from creating maps for Halo 2 and Reach, Call of Duty: World at War and Black Ops; they also created Age of Booty for XBLA. Certain Affinity has now released some info about the game and some new art. It has been confirmed that Crimson Alliance is for XBLA and more prominently, XBLA exclusive.
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How many people remember BurgerTime? We here at XBLAFans do, it was one of the biggest games from the 80’s, and it was on almost every system that you could think of. This was such an addictive game; action platformer mixed with a little bit of strategy and originality. Now thanks to MonkeyPaw Games, this classic franchise is now getting a new flame under its meat in BurgerTime World Tour.
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Earlier this month we brought you the rumor that we have good reason to believe that Alan Wake: Night Springs would be the follow up to the retail release. Not only did we bring you info that it was being made, but that it was being made for XBLA. Now we have some supposed leaked screenshots from this game that are shrouded in mist and mystery.
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