15 years ago
XF: E3 2011 XBLA Coverage
E3 is upon us again, and XBLAFans has your Xbox Live Arcade coverage. We’ve got four of our talented staffers on the show floor and the rest of us are holding the fort down here on the site. Check back frequently as XBLA Fan breaks Xbox Live Arcade news and previews upcoming games. All our E3 coverage can be found below. Make sure to follow us on twitter and like us on facebook as well.
Thursday: Man, as busy as we’ve been E3 is just flying by. But what a great year it’s going to be for Xbox Live Arcade, and what a rush of news! In the past 72 hours our team has been getting hammered with news, and we’ve put out a record 38 articles in that time. The best news is there’s more to come. We’ve got over 25 games we’ll be previewing in the coming weeks along with interviews, special developer guests on our podcasts, giveaways and more! Time to dig our heels in for one last awesome day at E3. At this point we’re keeping fueled solely by caffeine and adrenaline, but man is it worth it. Time for the gang to hit the show floor! — Steve
Awesomenauts screenshots and details are awesome
Mad Catz brings us a FPS designed controller
Bloodforge: officially an XBLA title
Making training better with Skullgirls
Trenched unlocks and innovates with Regiments
Rock of Ages rolling to XBLA on August 31
Bloodrayne Betrayal boasts blood bath bursts this August
XBLA developers representing in the top 100
Bloodforge: officially and XBLA title
Mad Catz brings us a F.P.S. designed controller
Kinect: now small space friendly
Just a little more info on Crimson Alliance
Wrecked: Revenge Revisited almost ready
15 years ago
XBLA’s Most Wanted: Elemental Gimmick Gear
Have you ever played a game before the HD revolution so beautiful that you considered it a work of art? Would you want that work of art remastered for the current generation of consoles? The debate will never cease, but memories of titles worthy of remastering keep pouring in.
Elemental Gimmick Gear is a hand-drawn action RPG that was originally destined for the Sega Saturn until publisher Hudson decided to switch gears and release it for the much more powerful Sega Dreamcast. Now, more than ten years from its original release, EGG deserves to reach a new audience of gamers.
15 years ago
What we are playing: Week of June 5th
Here’s what games the staff at XBLAFans have been playing. What have you been playing?
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15 years ago
The developer speaks: TimeGate studios answers your questions
A few weeks ago we were able to jump in TimeGate Studio’s Community Playdate. As cool as that was, TimeGate went the extra mile and offered up some codes for the game as well as swag for us to give away. We asked you to give us your questions for the Section 8: Prejudice developers in exchange for getting a chance to win a prize. Now Community Manager Bryan Perez answers your burning questions. Everything from future DLC to patches to the development process – if you asked, they answered.
15 years ago
XBLIG Monthly Roundup: May 2011
XBLIG Monthly Roundup features five of the best Indie games from the past month of releases on the marketplace. There’s a lot to sift through on the XBLIG marketplace, so let us tell you what we found during our daily rounds. These are some of the best games that XBLIG has to offer for the month of May, 2011: Read More
15 years ago
XBLA’s Most Wanted: The Simpsons Arcade
The Simpsons has been on the air for 486 episodes in 22 seasons and the show shows no sign of slowing down anytime soon. But in the classic years of The Simpsons, just before Bart faced Space Mutants on the NES, we got the classic arcade game we called The Simpsons Arcade Game. It was a side-scrolling beat-em ‘up where Mr. Burns and Smithers steal a diamond and when they run into The Simpsons, the diamond falls into Maggie’s mouth leading Smithers and Burns to kidnap Maggie. The Simpsons must rescue Maggie by beating up everyone who stands in their way. With the classic X-Men game on XBLA, surely this could lead to further old Konami arcade games to come there too.
15 years ago
Why the new Xbox needs XBLA
With E3 just around the corner and rumors of a new Xbox peeking out from under the bed, questions are popping up on whether or not the inevitable new generation of Xbox consoles will include backwards compatibility with the 360’s hundreds of Xbox Live Arcade titles. Will it happen, and does it have to happen for players to take the new system seriously?
15 years ago
What we are playing: Week of May 22nd
This is a new piece we’re starting to let our readers know what we’ve been playing the past week. This will be coming out once a week from this …
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15 years ago
XBLA’s Most Wanted: Metal Gear Solid
The Metal Gear series is in its 14th year with no signs of slowing down. It began in 1987 with the Nintendo classic and series namesake Metal Gear, then continued in 1990 with Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake. Snake would not be heard from again for eight years when Metal Gear Solid hit store shelves. It was a 3D tribute to its 2D predecessors, yet it brought a cinematic experience to the classic gameplay. The game received a visual upgrade in 2004 when it was ported to the GameCube. Now titled Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes it boasted much improved visuals and a first-person mode among other improvements.
15 years ago
Section 8 Prejudice Community Blowout winners
So this past weekend we had a blast playing Section 8 Prejudice with the XBLA community. We met a lot of awesome guys online and had a blast playing with TimeGate Studios. Huge thanks to Microsoft and TimeGate Studios for allowing us to participate in the event. We’ve submitted your questions, including a few we gleaned from the event itself to TimeGate.
As most of you know, we ran a contest leading up to the event and we were pleased with the responses we got, especially from our fans on Twitter. You guys kicked butt helping promote this event. Facebook fans, we hope you take this as a challenge to step it up next time!