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Tembo the Badass Elephant preview: The love child of Rambi and Rambo
10 years ago

Tembo the Badass Elephant preview: The love child of Rambi and Rambo

If you don’t immediately think of busting through walls as Rambi in Donkey Kong Country (DKC) when you see someone playing Tembo the Badass Elephant, then you clearly were not a Read More

Guncraft: Blocked and Loaded preview part 1: Destruction
10 years ago

Guncraft: Blocked and Loaded preview part 1: Destruction

Once upon a time in his own little world far, far away, a man by the name of Michael C. was asked by his girlfriend to play Minecraft. What did the great hero reply? Read More

Tales from the Borderlands Episode 3: Catch a Ride review (Xbox 360)
10 years ago

Tales from the Borderlands Episode 3: Catch a Ride review (Xbox 360)

The previous episode of Tales from the Borderlands, though enjoyable, was a bit slow and had a sudden ending. While unfortunate at the time, it turns out the episode Read More

Beach Buggy Racing review (Xbox One)
10 years ago

Beach Buggy Racing review (Xbox One)

Imagine one of those commercials in which a girl is picking petals off a flower while spouting out the phrases “he loves me” and “he loves me not.” Now substitute me for the girl and Read More

SlashDash review (Xbox One)
10 years ago

SlashDash review (Xbox One)

A quote from Roy Brown’s Butcher Pete song (featured in Fallout 3) best describes your actions in SlashDash‘s: “He keeps hackin’ and wackin’ and smackin’.” Read More

Spectra review (Xbox One)
10 years ago

Spectra review (Xbox One)

When Microsoft first announced the ID@Xbox program, Spectra was one of the many games that briefly showed up in the announcement trailer. I thought to myself, ‘Wow this game looks pretty cool; I can’t wait to try it.’ Having now played it, though, it was not like what I expected. Spectra may as well be an endless runner since the player has no control over the acceleration of the ship. Not only that, there is no finish line that would be typical for a normal racing game. Success occurs in a level if the player manages to survive the timer, but the goal was initially unclear, and my first experiences simply devolved down to, ‘Here is a level, have fun.’ Fun can be had, but one question begs to be asked when playing this title: Have you ever wondered what it’s like to drive through gridlock traffic at breakneck speeds? I haven’t before but now we have Spectra: 8 Bit Racing to fill that void.

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Superhot preview: First-person strategy
10 years ago

Superhot preview: First-person strategy

An absolute necessity to carefully consider every inch of movement and proceed in slow motion isn’t what you’d expect from a game called Superhot. But that is nevertheless Read More

SteamWorld Dig review (Xbox One)
10 years ago

SteamWorld Dig review (Xbox One)

First things first — SteamWorld Dig is my favorite game on the Nintendo 3DS. Period. Above any of the Marios, Zeldas or anything else that has come out on that system so far. Read More

Please pardon our mess as we upgrade
10 years ago

Please pardon our mess as we upgrade

As you may have noticed, we are transitioning to a new site design. Some might call us crazy for trying to do this immediately after E3 week. I would agree with them. The entire team at XBLA Fans is excited to give our readers a better site experience. This version will be more stable, elegant and usable. That said, we are still fine tuning some features.  Read More

Devil May Cry 4 Special Edition review (Xbox One)
10 years ago

Devil May Cry 4 Special Edition review (Xbox One)

I’m the first person to admit that I’m a poor choice to review a Devil May Cry game. Especially one like Devil May Cry 4 Special Edition Read More