News

At last week’s San Diego Comic-Con, Ken Lobb from Microsoft showed off the recording features of the Xbox One with Killer Instinct. Naturally, the long-awaited fighting game is perfectly …
Read More

505 Games has announced Rekoil, Plastic Piranha’s competitive first-person shooter, is headed to Xbox Live Arcade. Heralding Rekoil as a return to the balanced, infantry-based action of yesteryear, the title forgoes modern trends like killstreaks insisting that “a player’s skill is always at the forefront.”

What’s more interesting is the heavy emphasis Plastic Piranha has placed on the modding community. Rekoil is designed from the ground up to allow for flexible gameplay configuration. Whether that be community support with modding tools, or allowing players to set up servers based on their preferences, Rekoil‘s class-based combat should be diverse enough to accommodate any play style.

So what does this mean for Xbox Live Arcade? A closed ecosystem that doesn’t support modding, an eSports scene or the flexibility of the PC? We reached out to 505 Games for a better understanding of how these marquee features might be integrated into a closed, digital platform. We’ve yet to hear back, but if that changes, we’ll update accordingly.

For now we can only assume Rekoil will come to XBLA as a packaged first-person shooter, and pretty set in its ways. Without modding and server configuration, we’ll have to wait to see some gameplay before we have something to really get excited about. To catch a glimpse at the locales you may encounter when Rekoil lands, check out the gallery after the jump.

Read More

Mars: War Logs, the atmospheric cyberpunk action RPG, is finally coming to Xbox Live Arcade. Announced late last year, War Logs had always targeted XBLA, but took a detour for an early PC release. Fortunately, Roy Temperance and his murky past will finally arrive on the red planet this Friday, July 26 for 1200 MSP.

We’ve logged quite a bit of information ourselves about Spiders’ upcoming offering. From their cleverly named Silk engine that weaves War Logs‘ impressive visuals to the fluid combat system, lifting more than a little inspiration from Batman: Arkham Asylum.

To get a sense of what’s in store for those looking to take the plunge into the martian world, hit the jump to hear Spiders’ motivations behind the ambitious downloadable title.

Read More

The next bundle to land on Xbox Live Arcade launches today. Dubbed the Space Shooter Bundle, the package sends four titles into a modest orbit around 1600 MSP, saving you …
Read More

Update 2: In a second statement released to Kotaku today, Xbox Chief Product Officer Marc Whitten confirmed an earlier report by Game Informer that while all Xbox Ones will …
Read More

The Pinball Arcade on XBLA has received the yo-yo treatment as of late after it was delisted from the Xbox LIVE Marketplace last week. While the game probably won’t …
Read More

If you’re one of many who found the recent releases of the Soul Calibur franchise to be lacking, then you now have a reason to be excited. Soul Calibur …
Read More

Microsoft Studios, the digital publishing arm of the Washington-based mother ship, recently cleared some time on their Twitch channel to host the folks from Signal Studios and their upcoming free-to-play RPG, Ascend: Hand of Kul. For over an hour, Ascend‘s developers fielded general questions about the game, the ongoing closed beta and an eventual release.

While an exact date hasn’t been locked down, Lead Designer Ian Scott commented on the ballpark release window. “We don’t know specifically but I would guess over the course of the next couple of months,” Scott said. “More and more people will have access [to the beta] and then the game’s going to kind of gradually launch into open release.”

“We’re going through the process of doing another update which will open up more stuff to get to the end of the game,” explained President of Signal Studios, D.R. Albright III. “When we do that, which should hopefully be within a few weeks, we’re going to release the rest of the beta codes. Then we’re going to update again [based on] that information, and that’s when it’s going to go live.”

The Ascend beta has been running strong since the beginning of the month, welcoming players who originally signed up to get a taste of what’s to come. While we can’t get into specifics about the beta content, it’s a small sample of the early game and from what we’ve played, you should be excited to get your hands on it. But it’s not all fun and games.

Read More

Publisher NinjaBee games released a bundle of games that won’t sting your wallet. 1600 Microsoft points will get you a bundle of games released by the Utah-based indie studio on …
Read More

Telltale games revealed that Clementine will return in the second season of The Walking Dead. A panel at Comic-Con this year gave the first details confirming that Clementine will …
Read More