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What we are playing is a weekly column published on Sunday. Select members of the team talk about the games they’ve been playing over the past week and which they’re …
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A new update for Toylogic’s free-to-play action multiplayer title Happy Wars aims to fix issues in the matchmaking process, according to a post over at PlayXBLA.
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The story of the Oddworld franchise on the Xbox, and now Xbox Live Arcade is a complex one. When Oddworld: Munch’s Oddysee launched for the original Xbox, it was …
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Microsoft’s Xbox SmartGlass app was released on the iTunes App Store earlier this week. The free SmartGlass app now allows iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch device owners to control their Xbox …
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Upcoming Lord of the Rings themed MOBA, Guardians of Middle-earth, finally got firm release date for XBLA this week when Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment and Monolith Productions announced that …
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OK, so we can relate to the N64 kid. The most obvious thing we at XBLA Fans have in common with him is this: we love video games. However, because our team ranges in location and age, we all have our own unique stories. Since it seems like everyone’s nostalgia bone loves to be tickled every now and then, we decided to take a look at some of our staff’s best gaming memories. Whether their first console was an Atari or an N64, it’s been chronicled here in this brief history of our gaming pasts. Join us as we relive some of our fondest childhood — and adulthood, in some cases! — memories.

Once you’ve read about us, hop into the comments and share some of your own favorite gaming memories!

My earliest memory, is me sitting with my teddy bear playing Super Mario Bros. The NES was my first console. You could nearly always find me glued to the TV playing games like Mike Tyson’s Punch Out (Mr. Dream just didn’t do it for me), Karate Kid, Double Dribble basketball, just to name a few. In fact, one of my best memories was watching my mom beat Super Mario Bros. 3. I soon beat it, because I couldn’t let my mom beat the game without me beating it too! On the other side, my dad and I would play NES Play Action Football  and WWF Wrestlemania constantly. Later in my lifetime I found out he was letting me win. Not cool, dad.

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Our friends over at PlayXBLA have posted the healthy list of changes, additions and bug fixes you can expect in the next update for Minecraft Xbox 360 Edition. Though developer 4J Studios can’t confirm a release date just yet, all signs point to the 1.8.2 Bug Fix Title Update coming soon. With nearly 50 changes under the hood, this list is extensive, so check out the full change log after the jump. Once you’ve had a good look, let us know what you think. Is there anything you’d like to see added or fixed that didn’t make the cut this time around?

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Dungeon Fighter Live: Fall of Hendon Myre received a title update on XBLA this week. The update adds three new difficulties of Expert, Master and King’s Road to the …
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We love us some Trials Evo. It’s a game that provides a perfect balance between thrills, and replayability. It’s a game that perpetuates itself with some of the most …
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It’s a little late, but better than never. If you have the Origin of Pain DLC you’ve got the chance to earn some major MSP. Create something using the …
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