XBLA Wednesday: December 14, 2011
We cover all the new releases for XBLA this week bringing you a little bit of everything from a new game to several DLC packs.
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XBLAFans Monthly Roundup (November 2011)
Hey guys, we’re bringing you a new feature that’s simple and helpful in nature, the XBLAFans Monthly Roundup! This as well as other features will be seen a lot more should all things go accordingly, and we’ll even have some new ones on the way, so stay tuned because there’s a lot of awesome in the works here at XBLAFans.
If it wasn’t obvious by the title, this post will be your one-stop-shop to anything that happened this month with links to all our posts and excerpts where applicable. That means news, reviews, guides, features, interviews, podcasts, and even a recount of releases and sales data. Hit the jump for so many links you’ll never not know something about XBLA current events again! Read More
XBLA Wednesday: November 30
We got a couple new games from movie trivia to classic 80s cartoons and some DLC for a classic card game today. First, we have Scene It? Movie …
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Microsoft and Toylogic announce Happy Wars, debut first trailer
Microsoft and Toylogic have announced that they will be bringing the all new multiplayer action game, Happy Wars to Xbox Live Arcade in 2012. Featuring 15 on 15 multiplayer …
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Xbox Live activity: Japan edition
Our ever vigilant tipper @lifelower sent us some of the recent Xbox Live activity from Japan. While there are several titles that share popularity with the Americas and Europe, there were a few surprises in regards to sales. Probably the biggest surprise of all was MLB Bobblehead Pros, a game that we weren’t fans of. Trouble Witches Neo also stayed in the top 10, a title that isn’t nearly as popular in ‘the west’. Hit the jump to see sales for two weeks in July.
Ubisoft’s digital sales grow thanks to recent XBLA hits
Seems everyone listened to the praise Outland and Might & Magic: Clash of Heroes was getting and sales were very high for Ubisoft. In their Q1 2011-2012 fiscal reports, …
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XBLA sales for June 2011
Gamasutra editor Ryan Langley has released his Xbox Live Arcade sales analysis for the month of June. Of the seven releases last month Magic the Gathering: Duels of the …
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Awesome avatar awards: Week of 5/29
We’re starting yet another feature here at XBLAFans that will showcase any newly announced Xbox Live Arcade-based avatar awards from are friends over at AvatarAwards. They’re a great site that somehow gets news on avatar awards for all 360 games before they’re released. Be sure to check them out if you’re curious about any non-XBLA related avatar awards. For simplicity’s sake and so that we don’t leech from them, each of the links below will take you to their site. Remember, these are awards, so they’re given out to the player by completing criteria in each game. For more detail hit up the Avatar Awards site. You can also follow them on Twitter at @AvatarAwards360.
We’ve got a big backlog to fill between the AvatarAwards and things that pre-date their site, so this one’s a lot longer than usual. Hit the jump to see the list. Also, let us know if we missed one.
Newsbits: May 4
Simply put, newsbits are things that might be important to know but that don’t necessarily have a lot to write about. We still think these things are …
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XBLA PAX East booth listings
PAX East will be upon us in roughly 24 hours, and XBLAFans has rounded up as many booth locations for great XBLA games as we could, all in one convenient post. That’s not to say you shouldn’t wander around PAX looking for other booths we didn’t know about, but we love our readers and so put the most comprehensive list we could together. Check it out after the jump. If you know of other XBLA games shown at PAX East send the info to tips@xblafans.com. If we could get link to the source (if possible) and the booth number as well that’d be super-great! Have fun at PAX!