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About Nick DePetris

Fresh off stints as the Managing Editor at Xbox Kinect Fans and Steam Game Fans, Nick DePetris is back to rejoin the XBLA Fans team. He's been playing games for the past 22 years, and while getting older has left him with less time to play games, he still loves reading and writing about them. Feel free to reach out to him on Twitter - @ndepetris.
Latest Posts | By Nick DePetris

320 GB hard drive announced, should be able to store a few XBLA games

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In fact, even if every single game you got hit the 2 GB size limit for XBLA games you’d probably be busy for a while with the 160 games …
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Orcs Must Die! Cake! Are you still reading this headline?

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You probably haven’t heard how much we loved Orcs Must Die!, right? It’s not like we gave it a stellar review, wrote up a massive guide, and ran tons …
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Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet gets a little more shadowy with new DLC

While Major Nelson clued us in to the October 12th release date and 400 MSP price of Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet‘s first DLC, we’ve been left in the dark …
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Extreme Friday XBLA sale
13 years ago

Extreme Friday XBLA sale

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If you thought this week’s XBLA sale was big, wait until you see the special one-day only offers that were teased earlier this week in Microsoft’s dashboard …
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Rotastic review (XBLA)
13 years ago

Rotastic review (XBLA)

Rotastic was developed by Dancing Dots and published by Focus Home Interactive. It was released September 21, 2011 for 800 MSP. A copy was provided for review purposes.

Action-puzzler Rotastic has been teasing us for a while with hilarious pictures and a steady stream of multiplayer info. The only controls in the game are the A button and the bumpers, which are just enough to let you grab on to pivots and change the direction you’re spinning. Armed with this knowledge, you’ll take to the skies to gather up crystals, evade monsters, battle enemies, flick switches, explode birds, and collect helmets made of progressively more expensive rocks. So what did we think after completing the 60-some levels and playing a bunch of the multiplayer? Read on! Read More

Ready for Orcs Must Die!? You will be after this!

Orcs Must Die! is only a week away, and both developer Robot Entertainment and fans of the game are gearing up for the launch by releasing content. In Robot …
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Real Steel info reveals more about sweet robot boxing

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Over the last couple weeks, we’ve learned that perennial WWE game developer Yuke’s Co. Ltd’s new movie tie-in Real Steel will release in October for the price of 800 MSP. Today, an article translated for us by the ever-helpful @lifelower provides a first look at a lot of the mechanisms of this interesting robot fighting game. While the trailer posted last week showed off a lot of the gameplay, the information released today fills in a lot of details about exactly how robots box. See after the break to get all of the juicy details.

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SkyDrift DLC planes flying towards XBLA
13 years ago

SkyDrift DLC planes flying towards XBLA

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After launching on September 7, Digital Reality’s SkyDrift quickly became a favorite of many of us at XBLAFans. One of the things we mentioned in our review that we loved was the variety of planes we were able to fly around SkyDrift‘s beautiful levels. Well, beginning on Wednesday there will be even more to love! Digital Reality has released a nifty teaser image showing three new and varied planes and labeled with the date 21-9-2011. We’ve included the image after the break, or you can check it out with the announcement on SkyDrift‘s Twitter or Facebook page.

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Penny Arcade pokes fun at Crimson Alliance

We loved Crimson Alliance in our review, and evidently the folks over at Penny Arcade are playing it too. In Wednesday’s strip Tycho and Gabe poked some fun at …
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A Virus Named Tom news spreads like the plague

The gang over at Misfits Attic has been hard at work on A Virus Named Tom, and they’ve put up a post on the blog telling us a little …
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