Friday Top Five: Top five XBLA racing games
Racing games are an interesting sort. Like shooters, they’re at times so oversaturated with decent-yet-forgettable titles that it’s hard to pick the quality ones out from a sea of titles. Luckily XBLA is limited to 20-ish titles that revolve around the genre. Even still we have our favorites that we feel best represent what Xbox Live Arcade racing games should offer. While 20 participants enter the ring, only five make our list.
Get your wallet out for the Xbox Live Fan Appreciation Sale
Last week we announced that there was set to be a number of sales this month across Xbox marketplace. We now have the full details of the “Fan Appreciation …
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Deals galore on XBLA this November
The latest Xbox Marketplace release schedule has been published by Major Nelson and according to the Major there will be no XBLA releases for the next two weeks. There …
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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.
What we are playing: Week of May 22nd
This is a new piece we’re starting to let our readers know what we’ve been playing the past week. This will be coming out once a week from this …
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XBLAFans Newsbits: May 16
- Though Sega Rally Online Arcade is coming to XBLA this Wednesday, a spokesperson told GamePro that Sega has no plans to revive the series.
- Sega also …
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Coming soon to XBLA
Major Nelson revealed some upcoming titles and deals today. First up is Star Raiders, a reimagination of the Atari 2600 title, available tomorrow. Pricing has not been revealed. …
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Horizon Chase Turbo Review: Out Running Around
The first examples of arcade racing games date back to the early 1970s. Like the gaming industry in general, racers have evolved as technology has, going from monochrome top-down …
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PAX West Game Guide 2018: The Indies
We might have bit a bit more than we can chew this PAX. The infamous PAX plague didn’t help by any means. But we’ve finally been able to write up …
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Is XBLA’s Most Wanted working?
When we started XBLA’s Most Wanted back in February of 2011 we did so more for fun. It was, in our minds, a pipe dream to actually think some of these games would be hitting Xbox Live Arcade. Yet over the past year we’ve seen both announcements and releases that directly correlate with some of the games on our most wanted list. Now to be fair we realize that we’re just one site, but at the same time we know that developers and publishers look out on the web for what the fans want. We like to think we’re a little part of that. Here are some examples that make us think XBLA’s Most Wanted is successful: