XBLA Reviews

In an unexpected turn of events, 3D platformers are making a come back this year. Heading up the charge was Yooka-Laylee, the Kickstarter success story from Playtonic, but with many …
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As I punch the ball out of the hands of my opponent, I pick up the loose ball with Russell Westbrook and put the turbo on with a clear lane …
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The twin-stick shooter made its debut 40 years ago with Midway’s release of Boot Hill, but it was five years later when the genre took off thanks to Williams’ Robotron: …
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Butcher takes its inspiration from seminal genre-defining first-person shooter Doom and may be the only game that wasn’t a first-person shooter to make that claim. Instead, Butcher looks at everything Doom …
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There was a moment in World to the West, a few hours into it, where I stared at the game’s overworld map trying to figure out where I needed to …
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If there’s one ingredient that’s guaranteed to make any game better, it’s ragdoll physics. From putting rockets on people in Just Cause 3 to prat falling in GTA V, if …
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Since the first video game I played in the ’80s, one thing has always come naturally – beating people up to win. Nothing super complicated, keep moving to the right …
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In an opening that’s perhaps a little too on the nose, Little Nightmares introduces the protagonist as she wakes up from, well, a little nightmare. Though never uttered in the game her …
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Table Top Racing: World Tour is a new entrant in the genre of miniaturized racing games. This type of game doesn’t come around all too often, and when they do, …
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The residents of ‘Mitchellville’ are on the whole a happy bunch. Sure education is at an all-time low, but the furniture industry is booming since apparently, kids are picking up …
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