Pac-Man Championship Edition DX

Thanks for joining us again for the weekly round up of the Deals with Gold. Please remember that most prices listed below require an Xbox Live Gold membership. This week’s …
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The titular deal of the week, this week, offers a splash of something for just about everyone out there. Whether you’re into platformers, action and adventure, sports, racers, arcade …
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Last year, we posted a list of the top 10 XBLA soundtracks and while it’s a great list, there’s been a great deal of omissions and new tunes in the past year. Some of them have become iconic and immediately hummable or in some cases, incredibly dance-y. So we’re bringing you another 10 to add to the list, in no particular order since they’re all winners.

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If you’d asked us, Rally-X didn’t seem like a likely culprit for updating; however, a recent European trademark for Rally-X Rumble popped up hinting that Namco Bandai seems to be …
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This is a new piece we’re starting to let our readers know what we have been playing for fun over the past week.

John Laster – Finishing off Outland …
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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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Namco is begging to slowly unveil their next Xbox Live Arcade title, Aero-Cross. Set as an enhanced remake of Metro-Cross, the title is being showcased, bit-by-bit through Pac-Man Championship …
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This week’s deal is Pac-Man Championship Edition DX
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Today the voting for Xbox Live Arcade Awards has officially opened. All you need to do in order to vote is visit the “Spotlight” section of the dashboard and select the advertisement pictured above. You can vote for 8 different awards and apparently you can cast a new set of votes everyday until the polls close. The nominees are: Read More

Xbox Live Arcade has come a long way since its launch on the original Xbox a little over 6 years ago. Back then the selection of games was in the teens but now there are hundreds of games on the service. You can play anything from 16-bit classics like Streets of Rage 2 to exceptional original titles like Shadow Complex.

With so many games to choose from it’s hard to know what to spend your good ‘ol Microsoft Points on. Lucky for you however we at XBLAFans have taken it upon ourselves to compile a list of the 15 XBLA games you must own. The games featured (listed alphabetically because they’re just too good to rank on quality) are the best of the best. If you haven’t played a game on this list then you owe it to yourself to at least download the trial (which we’ve handily linked to) and give it a go.

So let’s get on with it shall we, below you’ll find the games we decided on and brief summaries from our writer explaining why they’re deserving of the term “must own”. If you agree or disagree with the list, or just want to comment in general please feel free to do so. Read More