Staying with relatives this holiday season? Well you might want to check out this week’s Deal of the Week as there’s a family board game theme, seeing 50% off …
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Major Nelson released the Top 20 XBLA sales for the week of December 15. 2011; these stats are based on individual full game purchases. Halfbrick is still proving that ninjas and fruit are an unbeatable combo, coming in first with Fruit Ninja Kinect. The next three on the list should be of no surprise to anyone: Pinball FX2, From Dust, and Dungeon Defenders. What is surprising this week is that Lara Croft and the Gurdian of Light sneaks in at a cozy number five, proving that a good sale can do wonders for a great game. Check out the full list of 20 for the week after the break.
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If you’ve not already spent all your points on the Fan Appreciation Sale, then you may want to take a look at this list of games rumoured to be …
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Microsoft has been rather silent on Full House Poker recently, which has prompted many of our readers to become worried the game might suffer a similar fate to its spiritual successor 1 vs. 100. The current summer season of Texas Heat started back in May, and while many of us have turned our calendars to fall, no plans have been made public regarding when Full House Poker will do the same.
Gamasutra editor Ryan Langley has released his Xbox Live Arcade sales analysis for the month of June. Of the seven releases last month Magic the Gathering: Duels of the …
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Full House Poker just released another DLC pack for the Summer Season. The DLC is free and contains three new achievements for a total of 50 gamerscore. But beware; …
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We’re starting yet another feature here at XBLAFans that will showcase any newly announced Xbox Live Arcade-based avatar awards from are friends over at AvatarAwards. They’re a great site that somehow gets news on avatar awards for all 360 games before they’re released. Be sure to check them out if you’re curious about any non-XBLA related avatar awards. For simplicity’s sake and so that we don’t leech from them, each of the links below will take you to their site. Remember, these are awards, so they’re given out to the player by completing criteria in each game. For more detail hit up the Avatar Awards site. You can also follow them on Twitter at @AvatarAwards360.
We’ve got a big backlog to fill between the AvatarAwards and things that pre-date their site, so this one’s a lot longer than usual. Hit the jump to see the list. Also, let us know if we missed one.
With no NPD-style analysis of XBLA and Microsoft announcements of sales data few and far between, Gamasutra has made it a habit to do monthly analyses of leaderboard data to get some kind of grip on relative success and failure in the marketplace. April’s deluge of new releases alongside a handful of sales for previously released titles meant that Gamasutra contributer Ryan Langley had a lot to parse. Read More
It’s been a great March for XBLA according to a sales analysis over the month. Beyond Good and Evil HD got over 76,000 players in the month with Torchlight …
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Kotaku has listed the tournament times for Season 1 of Full House Poker. These tournaments follow the same “live programming” model that the now-defunct 1 VS 100 had, meaning that these particular tournaments are only available at their scheduled times. Tournaments take place three times on their scheduled day. From 5-7PM Eastern, 8 -10PM Pacific and 8-10PM UK time. See the full schedule after the break.
Source: Kotaku