Friday new releases: December 1, 2017
Back to the regular release schedule this Friday, with four new games to pick from. First up we have Sky Force Reloaded, a classic arcade shoot ‘em up with modern …
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Rock Band Blitz dominates September XBLA sales
Taking advantage of its one week’s head start, Harmonix’s Rock Band Blitz more than doubled the sales of its closest XBLA rival for the month of September, according to …
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NiGHTS Into Dreams… review (XBLA)
NIGHTS Into Dreams… was developed and published by Sega. It was released on October 5, 2012 for 800 MSP. A copy was provided for review purposes.
NiGHTS Into Dreams… like the re-release of Jet Set Radio for XBLA last month, is a game from an era remembered with great fondness by gamers old enough to have played the original in its prime. NiGHTS is a game that dreamed large for its time, and as a historical curiosity, it is outstanding that Sega has seen fit to release it to a wider public. Unfortunately for the last great dream of Sonic Team, while it remains a grand vision with fantastic artistic direction, it has not aged very gracefully.
For anyone reading this review with no prior experience of NiGHTS, it was released for the Sega Saturn in the fall of 1996 on the cusp of the transition from 2D to 3D gaming — for reference, Super Mario 64, largely credited with completing this transition, was released a month afterwards as a release title for the Nintendo 64. NiGHTS (which is both the game’s title and the name of the main character) has its great moments, but they are tarnished by a few annoyances that are signs of the game’s original time period
XBLA Wednesday: September 19
A quick reminder of today’s XBLA releases and a look ahead to the next couple of weeks. This week we have two Wednesday releases, Sega’s HD remake of the Dreamcast …
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XBLA Fans Monthly Calendar Update: September 2012
It’s hard to keep track of all those XBLA release dates, they often seem to spring upon you, seemingly out of nowhere, at the last minute not to mention those promised games you were looking forward to that just seem to disappear into the ether without explanation. Now with XBLA Fans new monthly update keeping track, you can start organising your MSP more effectively and schedule in some serious controller time and sick days well in advance.
Rumor: Sonic Adventure 2 shows up on the Marketplace listing
It’s been heavily rumored and after the lackluster showing of Sonic the Hedgehog 4: Episode 2, things seem to be on the rocks for Sonic. But luckily someone on …
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Weekly Roundup: June 3
Weekly Roundup compiles all the biggest news stories, reviews, and releases from the week into one handy post on the weekends.
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:
Weekly Roundup: March 17
Weekly Roundup compiles all the biggest news stories, reviews, and releases from the week into one handy post on the weekends.
Sega teases Shenmue and Skies of Arcadia for XBLA
It didn’t take too long for Sega to talk about the next Dreamcast titles coming to XBLA after Jet Set Radio‘s release. In an interview on Gamereactor UK at …
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