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The 12 Days of XBLA was an amazing success and we hope to bring you all more contests like this in the years to come. Thanks to all of our awesome community members for participating with over 1700 entries in a twelve day span, that’s quite an impressive turnout. And a huge thanks to the fine people at Microsoft and all the developers/publishers that donated all the prizes. Without them, none of this would be possible.

With that said, let’s get to the moment we have all been waiting for. After all the dust settled and we ran our random number generator for one last time in 2011, we are now proud to announce @OnyxPrimal as the winner of the Grand Prize worth over $150! Congratulations, you have won a copy of the following XBLA games: Read More

Day 5 of Xbox’s 12 Days of Deals promotion sees yet another XBLA fighter on offer. For one day only, Street Fighter III: Online Edition is down 50% from 1200 …
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Just in time for the holidays, The Behemoth releases another prisoner video for Battleblock Theater. The shuffle block was one of the first blocks ever made for the game, …
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Another daily sale from Xbox Live! Today you can pick up Deadliest Warrior: Legends for 400MSP and its Joan of Arc add-on for 120MSP, both of which are 50% off …
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Today is the last day of the 12 days of XBLA promotion and today’s prize is a secret. But you can find out what game we are giving away if you can successfully identify the game that is distorted in the screen shot above. This is an actual screen shot taken from actual an gameplay moment with a simple Photoshop filter applied to it. Guess it right and you gain an entry in the daily and grand prize drawings. Good Luck! And don’t forget to follow us on Twitter for even more chances to win great games!

The winner of yesterday’s contest is: David (@RoostedVulture) – You have won a copy of From Dust. We will be in touch with you today on Twitter!

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Get your guns locked and loaded, All Zombies Must Die will be hitting Xbox Live Arcade on December 28! Doublesix Games and Square Enix announced that the game will …
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It’s that time of the year again. The Fall 2011 Xbox Dashboard update has arrived and brought with it a slew of changes. Fans and detractors alike have turned out in force, clamoring to make their side of the argument the loudest, and therefore the best. No one is wrong. The Kinect integration is miles better than it was before but brought with it a somewhat clunky interface where unwelcome things are given the prized center panel, and the game you were hoping to play is a small box in the top left. Roaming profiles and cloud saving are so ridiculously awesome that you almost don’t notice the weird lag that sometimes crops up when browsing through the menus. Almost. We could argue the pros and cons of the new dashboard all day, but eventually everyone will get used to the new way of doing things and forget about it.

One question, though, will continue to ring out long after all others have disappeared on the gently wafting winds of time. One question that’s been around since the service launched: Why no love for the indie game market? Have the issues finally been answered in this update? Let’s take a look and see for ourselves.

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Anyone looking forward to inXile Entertainment’s remake of the classic game Choplifter is in for a holiday treat, as the game has been submitted for certification. While this doesn’t …
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