Xbox Live Arcade Archive

  • Experience The Incredible Action RPG Adventures of Van Helsing on PC and XBLA

    Experience The Incredible Action RPG Adventures of Van Helsing on PC and XBLA

    Van Helsing, the legendary vampire hunter from Bram Stoker’s Dracula, has retired, and now his son, also Van Helsing, has taken up the mantle of world’s greatest (and most charming) monster slayer and rescuer of damsels in distress. Thus the stage is set for The...

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  • Play Games, Use Raptr, Win Free Stuff

    Play Games, Use Raptr, Win Free Stuff

    Video game social networking and instant messaging service, Raptr has announced the beta launch of its rewards program today. Anyone who joins and links up their PC, Xbox Live and PlayStation Network accounts can track their gameplay activity and earn free prizes in the process....

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  • Screenshot Saturday: God of War: Ascension, Black Ops II & Dueling Mascot Racers Dishonored by an Unfinished Swan

    Screenshot Saturday: God of War: Ascension, Black Ops II & Dueling Mascot Racers Dishonored by an Unfinished Swan

    Multiplayer in God of War? I know, it still doesn’t sound quite right. But Sony Santa Monica has revealed its competitive ambitions for the next PlayStation 3 mythological adventure, and here you’ll find the first screenshots showing teams of Kratos wannabes fighting for the right...

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  • Review: Defenders of Ardania (XBLA)

    Review: Defenders of Ardania (XBLA)

    We’re all familiar with the popular cliché held by certain NFL teams—think Chicago and the New York Giants—that the best offense is a good defense. Lately, tower defense games have been flipping that equation around, letting defensive-minded players go on the offensive as well. In...

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  • Contest: The Walking Dead Episode 1 XBLA Giveaway

    Contest: The Walking Dead Episode 1 XBLA Giveaway

    Telltale Games’ highly anticipated The Walking Dead episodic horror/adventure series is officially underway across PC and consoles, and we have a pair of Xbox Live codes for the debut episode here to help get two lucky gamers started on their summer-long date with the undead....

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  • Review: World Gone Sour

    Review: World Gone Sour

    Cross marketing physical goods into video games has always been a bit of a mystery to me.   As a kid I remember seeing Domino’s Pizza’s claymation commercials with their anit-hero Noid making delivery pizza show up in an inedible state.  The Noid was sort...

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  • Review: The Splatters

    Review: The Splatters

    Perhaps you’ve grown tired of flinging feathered friends at packs of thieving pigs and toppling towers of blocks in Rio and in orbit around the moon. If you’re suffering from an A-grade case of Angry Birds fatigue, say a sloppy hello to The Splatters, your...

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  • Review: Diabolical Pitch

    Review: Diabolical Pitch

    Diabolical Pitch is like that wild ‘n’ crazy rookie pitching prospect, the guy with the sick breaking ball that no batter can seem to touch. You bring him up to the majors for the Big Game—or in this case download him to your Xbox 360...

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  • Review: Sine Mora

    Review: Sine Mora

    Enemy fighters, towering leviathan robots and incessant rainbow bursts of deadly projectiles aren’t your biggest enemies in Sine Mora, the high-class shmup from the head-trip kids at Grasshopper Manufacture and Digital Reality. Not even close. No, public enemy one is the white digital timer at...

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  • Screenshot Saturday: PAX East 2012 Edition

    Screenshot Saturday: PAX East 2012 Edition

    PAX East rolled into Boston this weekend, so for our latest edition of Screenshot Saturday we’re taking a closer look at some of the show’s headline games as well as various other gameplay images that surfaced over the past handful or so days. Browse along...

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