XBLA

An extremely trusted source has leaked to us that the upcoming Alan Wake: Night Springs will be an Xbox Live Arcade title and not a retail release. We have …
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Digital Reality announced today their new upcoming air-racing game, SkyDrift coming out this Summer on XBLA. SkyDrift has you racing alongside various other planes while battling with weapons to help you along the race. Your goal is “if you can’t overtake, shoot them down!” which are great words of advice for the single-player and multiplayer modes. Check the trailer above and read more for some screenshots of the game. If you want to know any more information, check out their official website.
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Expect some new content at some point soon for the popular XBLA city-building game. In an interview with NinjaBee games, “We’ve got some pretty big DLC that’s almost ready …
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When Gotham City Imposters was announced, it sounded a bit strange for a first-person shooter where you play thug gangs inspired by Batman and the Joker. Our first bit …
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Storm looks to be an incredibly different type of game coming out this Summer. Players control the weather to manipulate the environment to grow seeds in a variety of …
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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

Aside from the initial announcement and teaser trailer, Avalanche Studios has been pretty stingy with information concerning their upcoming title Renegade Ops. In a brief preview with Gaming Age, the Just …
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Here’s what’s new on the XBLA marketplace for the week of May 18th, 2011.
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Star Raiders was developed by Incinerator Studios and published by Atari. It was released May 11, 2011 and retails for 800MSP. A copy of the game was provided by the publisher for review purposes.

Star Raiders is a space flight combat game that pits one ship against the entire alien horde. It is, in fact, a remake of the Atari 2600 game of the same name. The original game was very innovative for its time. Sadly the remake does not innovate as strongly as the original did. Star Raiders is comprised of one thing and one thing only: shooting down enemy ships. Occasionally you must blow up the occasional frigate or base, but for it’s simply shooting down enemy fighters. Fortunately your ship is armed well enough to take on this mundane task.

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The “Design Many Robots” competition for Shoot Many Robots is coming to an end. With just under an hour left, it will soon be set in stone which one …
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