15 years ago
New NBA Jam announced for XBLA
EA Sports announced today a follow-up to the popular NBA Jam as a downloadable title called NBA Jam: On Fire. It will have a brand new AI from previous …
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15 years ago
Brawler Week: XBLAFans Writers Choose Their Favorites
Here at XBLAFans, the editors are just as crazy about their games as our readers. To celebrate Brawler Week, our staff chimes in on their favorite titles from Xbox Live Arcade. Since we have a wide variety of personalities and tastes, we decided to allow each writer to choose one of their favorite brawler, rather than doing a Top 10 list. Read on to see if your favorite was chosen.
15 years ago
Brawler Week Challenge #8: Squeaky Clean
We posted up our Dishwasher Vampire Smile review yesterday, and it’s pretty clear we love it. The game is absolutely a must buy for brawler fans. Thankfully you …
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New XBLIG Contolled by Voice
A recently released XBLIG developed by Josh Schonstal, simply titled PewPewPewPewPewPewPewPewPew, lets you control the game only using your voice. The game is playable with any Xbox 360 compatible microphone, …
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15 years ago
Brawler Week: Brian Provinciano of Vblank Entertainment
I recently had a chance to sit down to do a short interview with Brian Provinciano of Vblank Entertainment. What I had intended to be a short interview that wouldn’t take up too much of his time turned out to be a great 30 minute conversation about his roots in the gaming industry, Retro City Rampage, and its predecessor, Grand Theftendo. Below you’ll find just a few of the highlights from our conversation. Special thanks to Brian for giving us such an in-depth interview. We’ve posted the audio below. Give it a listen and see some of the highlights after the jump.
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15 years ago
Brawler Week Challenge #7: Can’t Wait -Ended-
Bart Scott should be the spokesperson for all upcoming events. There is really no one else who can encompass the amount of desire I have for some …
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15 years ago
Brawler Week: Retro City Rampage Hands On Preview
One of the beauties of being an indie studio is the ability to experiment; there is a freedom to development as there are no true limitations. The game can become a total fan service to the developers themselves. Brian Provinciano of VBlank Entertainment took the time to sit down with us recently and discuss this very fact. His title Retro City Rampage is a culmination of various pop culture references and game design mash-ups that merge into a totally unique game. We were given the opportunity to test it out and loved what we saw.
For the uninitiated, Retro City Rampage parodies the open-world action genre combining dozens of game mechanics into an 8-bit game. The game has a beautiful sense of humor, lampooning an entire era of movies, games and pop culture. Players take on the role of THE PLAYER, an anti-hero, who signs up as a henchman for a local crime syndicate. But things go chronically awry and he must soon defeat the EVIL GOOD GUYS, who will stop at nothing to end his RAMPAGE OF DOOM.
15 years ago
The Dishwasher: Vampire Smile review (XBLA)
The Dishwasher: Vampire Smile was developed by Ska Studios and will be released on April 6, 2011 for 800 MSP. A copy of the game was provided for review purposes.
The Dishwasher: Dead Samurai was an indie success story if ever there was one. The Dishwasher: Vampire Smile is the much awaited sequel to that success story and it’s going far beyond the scope of its predecessor. A story mode, 50 levels of arcade- both single player and co-op, and a never-ended Dish Challenge mode for the masochists of the world that want to fight endless waves of baddies. Standard beat ’em up modes, but the variety of enemies, the two unique characters with their unique weapons and coherent story makes The Dishwasher: Vampire Smile into a fantastic experience. Read More
15 years ago
Rewind Review: Small Arms (XBLA)
Small Arms was developed by Gastronaut Studios and released by Microsoft Game Studios on November 22, 2006. It’s available on the XBLA Marketplace for 400MSP.
When the XBLA service was first introduced to me I felt like there wasn’t enough substance to keep me interested. Geometry Wars was there day one which was fantastic, but other than that most of the games really didn’t look too original or polished. Then I heard about Small Arms. It was released exactly a year after the release of the Xbox 360 and I was very excited to get my hands on it. Despite drawing from experiences like Super Smash Brothers on the various Nintendo consoles, the Small Arms formula feels unique and interesting which, when accompanied by the odd looking cyborg critters you get to play as, gave the game a strong sense of originality which the platform needed at the time. Read More