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One of the entrants from the Independent Games Festival this year will be coming soon to Xbox Live Arcade. Rostatic is being published by Focus Home Interactive …
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IGN just recently put up a video for Storm, a new physics-based puzzler that combines the elements of storms with water, wind and lightning. It also won the IndiePub …
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Check your Xbox Dashboard right now for great savings on tons of downloadable content including many XBLA games. Starting today and lasting all week long, there will be sales on the content listed below. Along with these savings, a 1-day sale will occur on April 1^st with even more discounts. Remember to check back here on Friday for more information surrounding that special 1-day sale. Here are what sales you can find as of right now:

These sales are listed in the Game Marketplace tab on the dashboard. Look for the advertisement labeled “Extreme Shopping Sale Week” and click on that. This sale is available for both Gold and Silver memberships. Read More

Earlier this month we reported that the Triple Pack, a retail title consisting of Trials HD, Limbo, and ‘Splosion Man, was coming to Japan and and the …
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It’s been kind of a slow Monday for Xbox Live Arcade news. That being said we want to update you on some really, really cool stuff we’ve …
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Supergiant Games announced this morning via their Twitter account that Bastion has reached the “code complete” milestone. This means all of the in-game code is complete and that they’ll …
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It’s all too common of a complaint. A game is released and the same day downloadable content is released alongside it. People think they’re being cheated; they think it’s some conspiracy that developers and publishers have to get some easy extra cash. Well, I’m tired of hearing about it, because if folks understood the process they’d cut developers and publishers some slack. I’m here to set the record straight.

The first thing to get out of the way is whether it’s actual DLC or “unlock” DLC. Unlock DLC is always less than one megabyte and simply enables something already existing in the game. Those are more than fair to be upset about for the most part, but what follows can occasionally apply to unlock DLC as well as actual DLC.

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10 years ago in 2001 Volition released a revolutionary game; one with real-time destructible environments. It was something that had never before been seen, let alone running on a console. Sure, a PC version was also released, but this was a game that showcased what the PlayStation 2 could really do. Red Faction is set on Mars and follows the story of a lowly miner known as Parker as he becomes part of the Red Faction, an organization set to overthrow the corrupt Ultor Corporation and their slave-like treatment of their miners.

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Ghostbusters: Sanctum of Slime was developed by Behaviour and published by Atari. It was released on March 23^rd, 2011 for 800MS points. A review code was provided by the publisher.

Editors Note: We have contacted both the publisher and the developer and we have been informed they are looking into some of the technical bugs we encountered. At this time, we feel there are too many problems with this game to recommend a purchase; however, should the game patch these issues we are willing to look back into it as we did with Hydrophobia: Pure.

Ghostbusters: Sanctum of Slime is a top-down/dual-stick shooter that places you in charge of a new rookie Ghostbusting squad. The goal is to venture through 12 levels in order to take down Dumazu the Destroyer who is causing ghosts everywhere to be nuisances. Most gamers probably don’t even care about the story though because let’s face it; it’s a Ghostbusters game. You rid the town of ghosts one at a time until society can start to function again. It should be an easy sell, right? Sadly, this game is far from an easy sell and it doesn’t even come close to living up to the hype it created. Read More

GamerBytes editor Ryan Langley takes a look at Xbox Live Arcade sales for February 2011. The analysis, based on leaderboards, includes two of the games included in the House …
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