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The release date  and pricing for Brad Borne’s and EA’s upcoming The Fancy Pants Adventures has been announced. You will be able to run, jump, platform, can collect …
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Before mankind faced its epic struggle with the Strogg in the Quake games II, IV, and Enemy Territory, before there was the deathmatch arena of Quake III, players fought against a hellish enemy force in the original Quake. Unlike so many games of its time, Quake was true 3D. Its predecessor, the Doom series did not feature a true Z axis (up/down).

Even games such as Duke Nukem 3D and Star Wars: Dark Forces featured only a psuedo-3D ability. No, if someone wanted true 3D in 1996, they turned to Quake. And nothing would make gamers of yesteryear more happy than to see the game that spawned a new series for Id Software make a return on XBLA.

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Our terms are simple: Help us get to 300 likes on Facebook. Once we do, we’ll drop a code. Also watch this weekend for more XBLIG codes on Facebook, …
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In a perfect world this article would have gone up on Wednesday, but due to some unforeseen circumstances it was delayed. Over the past week we have looked at …
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Gamers usually fall into one of the two following categories: those who sing and praise HD remakes as if they are gold covered in chocolate, and those who compare the HD remakes to the excessive milking of a cow. I tend to fall in the gold category, and for good reason—HD remakes are positive for both the gaming industry and gamers.

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Being a site focused solely on XBLA and XBLIG titles we occasionally get to do some cool stuff that makes us feel like celebrities. Enter the April 29 Xbox Live Community Playdate. This isn’t a “let’s get together and play”, it’s an official, Xbox Sponsored playdate. We’ll be playing Hydro Thunder Hurricane, one of our many favorites around the XBLAFans offices.

We probably won’t be playing the DLC maps as it requires money to play them, but we will be requiring the multiplayer Tempest Pack patch, available here for free. This compatibility patch (technically free DLC) will let those who like DLC-only boats and skins use them, and people who don’t own the paid DLC can see them. For those interested the full version of the DLC includes three new achievements two new boats, three new tracks, expert versions of the novice and pro boats, and new skins for every boat. It’s well worth the 400MSP, as indicated by our review of it. For those wanting to buy the full version of the Tempest Pack, you can do so here.

Hit the jump for a list of gamertags participating.

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Zen Studios just announced via their Facebook page that if they get 4,000 “Likes” by the weekend that they’ll distribute codes for tables, including brand new tables. The original …
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Technically Brawler Week is over but we have a slight addendum…

Associate Editor John Carson recently got the chance to speak to Edmund Mcmillen and Tommy Refenes better known as …
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Toy Cars was developed by Eclipse Games and released on February 21, 2011 and costs 80 Microsoft Points.  A copy was provided by the developer for review purposes.

For anyone that has been gaming since the days of the original Nintendo Entertainment System, the arcade racing title Micro Machines was a game with tiny cars but with a lot of heart, and now the Xbox Live Indie Channel has been graced with a contemporary nod to that game in the form of Toy Cars.

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Cave have announced that their upcoming XBLA platformer Nin2-Jump‘s sales donated to the Japan Red Cross to help with the relief effort from the recent devasting earthquake. All …
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