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A quote from Roy Brown’s Butcher Pete song (featured in Fallout 3) best describes your actions in SlashDash‘s: “He keeps hackin’ and wackin’ and smackin’.” Read More

When Microsoft first announced the ID@Xbox program, Spectra was one of the many games that briefly showed up in the announcement trailer. I thought to myself, ‘Wow this game looks pretty cool; I can’t wait to try it.’ Having now played it, though, it was not like what I expected. Spectra may as well be an endless runner since the player has no control over the acceleration of the ship. Not only that, there is no finish line that would be typical for a normal racing game. Success occurs in a level if the player manages to survive the timer, but the goal was initially unclear, and my first experiences simply devolved down to, ‘Here is a level, have fun.’ Fun can be had, but one question begs to be asked when playing this title: Have you ever wondered what it’s like to drive through gridlock traffic at breakneck speeds? I haven’t before but now we have Spectra: 8 Bit Racing to fill that void.

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Microsoft’s Games With Gold program, in which Xbox Live Gold (XBLG) members are given one Xbox One and two Xbox 360 games each month as part of their subscription, is …
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An absolute necessity to carefully consider every inch of movement and proceed in slow motion isn’t what you’d expect from a game called Superhot. But that is nevertheless Read More

First things first — SteamWorld Dig is my favorite game on the Nintendo 3DS. Period. Above any of the Marios, Zeldas or anything else that has come out on that system so far. Read More

Coming soon is an adventure from an unlikely hero that happens to be rather tasty. Bacon Man: An Adventure is a 3D side-scrolling, action-platforming game Read More

As you may have noticed, we are transitioning to a new site design. Some might call us crazy for trying to do this immediately after E3 week. I would agree with them. The entire team at XBLA Fans is excited to give our readers a better site experience. This version will be more stable, elegant and usable. That said, we are still fine tuning some features.  Read More

Toylogic Inc.’s Happy Dungeons is simultaneously what you’d expect and not at all what you’d expect from the makers of Xbox 360’s Happy Wars. You and some friends take control of the same type of cutesy little warriors Read More

Don’t Starve: Giant Edition has received a rating from the USK, the German equivalent of the ESRB. This is the first we’ve heard anything in regards to the game coming …
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I’m the first person to admit that I’m a poor choice to review a Devil May Cry game. Especially one like Devil May Cry 4 Special Edition Read More