Xbox LIVE Arcade House Party Not Available To South Africa
Xbox South Africa have announced via their Twitter feed that South Africans will not be partaking in the Xbox LIVE Arcade House Party promo.
Torchlight II Delayed Thanks To That Darned Xbox 360
Anticipated dungeon crawling hack and slasher gets delayed
Twisted Pixel’s next game has a very, very cheeky debut trailer
The team that brought you ‘Splosion Man and Comic Jumper is busy working on their third Xbox Live Arcade exclusive. Entitled The Gunstringer Rides Again, the game is a western platformer with what looks like a blend of on-rails shooting. It’s also entirely Kinect controlled. Using Kinect, players have to control the Gunstringer like a marionette puppet because, well, that’s …
Orion: Prelude is Halo but with dinosaurs
Which basically makes it the best multiplayer game ever made. Still, releasing a new online FPS game in today’s market takes balls of steel. Spiral Games Studios reckons they’ve got those because they’re planning on bringing their online shooter to Xbox Live Arcade, the PSN and Steam. The shooter looks like Halo, but it’s got a definite Tribes and Unreal …
LIMBO completely owns the list of nominations for GDC Awards
Alright, I know that I harp on about this game, but it really is that good. It’s appealed to a massive amount of gamers across the world, and now game developers as a whole have given Playdead Studios’ debut game a very special nod of approval. The annual Game Developers Choice Awards is similar to any other type of game …
Ghostbusters Sanctum of Slime Screenshots
How is it possible that I haven’t seen anything about the upcoming Ghostbusters title from Atari that is on it’s way to the XBLA, PSN and PC? It’s exactly the sort of title that I generally enjoy which is a 4 player co-op action adventure with ectoplasm rifles tasked to save New York City. Could it be any more epic …
Quake Arena Arcade finally coming to XBLA
We say “finally” because this was actually announced three years ago at the 2007 QuakeCon. Bethesda Softworks (who bought id a while ago, remember?) have confirmed that Xbox 360 gamers will be able to get their nostalgic frag on come 15 December 2010. Quake Arena Arcade is the Xbox Live Arcade port of id’s monumentally successful Quake III Arena which …
Xbox Live Arcade: Games for the Holidays cross overs
Hey, remember the Xbox Live Summer of Arcade promotional event that ran a while back? It was during the northern hemisphere’s summer, but that didn’t stop us in the southern hemisphere with sneaky, workaround Xbox Live accounts from cashing in. If you bought a certain amount of the games that were included in the Summer of Arcade promotion, then you …
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