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At this year’s Tokyo Game Show, Microsoft debuted a new trailer for Haunt, the Kinect enabled “haunted house” game from Nana-On-Sha, the folks behind PaRappa the Rapper. Originally announced …
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Every year in Culver City, California, a celebration of independently-developed games is held. The organizers of 2011’s IndieCade had the tough job of finding 36 finalists out of …
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It’s no secret that Plants vs. Zombies is a wildly popular game with its own special sense of humor. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the new music …
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There are a few newsworthy announcements to make for the venerable Pinball FX 2 series.

The first announcement is that the next tournament will feature the brand new Ms. …
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More details have been unveiled for upcoming XBLA game Project Draco (working title) and it turns out it’s not a Harry Potter spin-off chronicling the adventures of our favorite …
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A theme within the gaming industry this generation has been the expansion of who plays video games. Console makers have been looking to draw in a new audience by making games easier to approach and simpler to play. Motion sensors and touch screens are just two of the things we’ve seen this generation that are making it easier for your mom, dad, and little sister to pick up and play video games. But look a bit deeper and you’ll see a trend when it comes to the games themselves as well, and Xbox Live Arcade has something to do with it.

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Joystiq got their hands on the upcoming bullet hell shooter Sine Mora. In the above footage Digital Reality Creative Director Theodore Reiker guides them through the gameplay mechanics. The …
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Beat em’ ups are awesome. There’s nothing like delivering some blows to a virtual bad guy to calm a rough day. The list of great beat em’ ups is a mile long, but one stands out as a great candidate for re-release on Xbox Live Arcade: Def Jam Fight for New York. Of the four Def Jam fighting games it stands head and shoulders above its peers. Vendetta, the first game in the series, was great, but didn’t have the features New York first exhibited. The PSP version of New York, subtitled The Takeover, had a few new gameplay elements but removed all voiceovers. Finally Icon, the only current-gen title, was absolutely horrible, taking fighting far beyond over-the-top to a point where it’s comically awful.

No, there’s only one in the series that could truly make a comeback.

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UTV Ignition have announced on their Facebook page that puzzler game Mercury Hg will be hitting XBLA on September 28. The game promises to challenge you to try and …
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We loved Crimson Alliance in our review, and evidently the folks over at Penny Arcade are playing it too. In Wednesday’s strip Tycho and Gabe poked some fun at …
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