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Torchlight Dungeon Crawls its way onto XBLA
13 years ago

Torchlight Dungeon Crawls its way onto XBLA

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Runic Games has just announced that their PC powerhouse dungeon crawl RPG Torchlight is joining the Xbox Live Arcade House Party lineup. The game has been completely revamped (e.g. …
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2,000,000 gamers have crashed castles, according to leaderboards
13 years ago

2,000,000 gamers have crashed castles, according to leaderboards

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Interesting fact: According to Behemoth’s leaderboards, 2 million players have enjoyed Castle Crashers. This doesn’t solidify it, but definitely helps show that Castle Crashers is one of the best, if not the best XBLA game out there. Will this audience carry over to Battleblock Theatre? Let’s hope (if Battleblock is any good!).
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Fire Pro Wrestling grapples with XBLA, leaving Japan afterall!
13 years ago

Fire Pro Wrestling grapples with XBLA, leaving Japan afterall!

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Back in September, Microsoft announced that they had commissioned Japanese developer Spike to create the next title in the Fire Pro Wrestling franchise for the 360 exclusively, notably on XBLA instead of retail, and with avatars instead of stylized 2D character models. What wasn’t announced, was if it would leave Japan. Full story after the break!

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Monday Night Combat 50% off! (for today only)
13 years ago

Monday Night Combat 50% off! (for today only)

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That’s right, everyone’s favorite combat based game show has dipped in price for the holiday! Coming in at 50% off (600 points, or $7.50) this is a steal! For …
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FINALLY: Scott Pilgrim DLC is Out and Properly Working!
13 years ago

FINALLY: Scott Pilgrim DLC is Out and Properly Working!

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**LAST UPDATE**

Earlier today the DLC achievements were finally added to Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World.  You can now feel safe to purchase the DLC pack, which sells for 160MS Points ($2), if you were holding out.  If you do ever find yourself having issues with DLC achievements in the future, the solution listed in the first UPDATE works every time for correcting conflicting gamerscore.

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Dungeons and Dragons: Daggerdale announced, coming in 2011
13 years ago

Dungeons and Dragons: Daggerdale announced, coming in 2011

Everyone’s favorite table top RPG is getting an action RPG makeover in this new title just announced by Atari. It is listed as “shipping” in 2011 for all major downloadable markets (sans Appstore and Android) and looks to be making quite a splash. Full story after the jump.

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Rayman Origins delayed until 2011, sad panda
13 years ago

Rayman Origins delayed until 2011, sad panda

The strange protagonist of the 32-bit era was slated to make his come-back this year with Rayman Origins, an XBLA title that explores the Rayman roots, and how his friendship with Globox started. Sadly, this will not be happening until next year. More after the jump.

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Hydrophobia revamp incoming, to be discounted.
13 years ago

Hydrophobia revamp incoming, to be discounted.

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Hydrophobia developer Dark Energy Digital has released details of a pretty substantial patch coming to the hugely ambitious but ultimately disappointing XBLA title. The patch, entitled “Pure”, aims to rectify the many problems that reviewers and gamers has with the game upon it’s release.

The update coincides with a 400 point discount for the game, meaning it can now be picked up for 800 points rather than the original 1200 release price.

Almost all of the games major game mechanics have been changed in some fashion, the cover has been improved, gunplay has been redesigned to be more intuitive and fun, the graphics have been bumped up slightly and the button layout has been changed to be more in line with similar titles.

Whether these changes actually improve the game remains to be seen but it’s certainly impressive that any developer would go back and change their game in such a fundamental manner in response to complaints.

Check out what Tyler had to say about the game upon release in our XBLAFans review. You can see a video detailing the changes below, along with a screenshot gallery.

Source: Eurogamer

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Rumour: Microsoft to support Indie Games Winter Uprising?
13 years ago

Rumour: Microsoft to support Indie Games Winter Uprising?

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If a series of tweets from Indie Game Winter Uprising orgraniser Robert Boyd are to be believed Microsoft may be putting their weight behind the iniative sometime soon. While there’s no official confirmation as yet, Boyd’s tweets (which you can read for yourself below) heavily imply that Microsoft are planning to do something to help with the promotion, or at least the games that will be released before the 23rd of Decemeber.

Presumably this help will be in the form of advertising on the dashboard in a more prominent location, possibly the spaces usuall reserved for Deal of the Week sales and the like.

This would certainly be a win for the Indie Game developers, with the Uprising being a response to Microsoft’s lack of advertisement of the service.

Due to several delays the Uprising hasn’t been quite the success it was expected to be, as a result it was extended to the end of the month. You can find out more about the event and the games involved by visiting our Winter Uprising hub, which has now been updated with more reviews. Read More

Coming soon to Xbox Live Arcade
13 years ago

Coming soon to Xbox Live Arcade

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Major Nelson has released a lovely post outlining what will be coming out on Xbox live on December 21 and lasting until December 31.   I am not sure if this has anything to do with the deal days they are planning that counts down to the new year.    Click read more of course!

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