Xbox Live Arcade Archive

  • Review: Star Wars Pinball: Balance of the Force

    Review: Star Wars Pinball: Balance of the Force

    As sure as arcade cabinets squashed the growth and fascination of pinball, home video game consoles just as easily squashed arcades. Fortunately, there has been a grand resurgence of virtual pinball in the last several years with games like Pinball Arcade and, predominantly, the various tables […]

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  • The Walking Dead: Season Two’s First Episode Should Be Out By Christmas

    The Walking Dead: Season Two’s First Episode Should Be Out By Christmas

    Seen in the new full-length trailer below, the debut episode of The Walking Dead: Season Two, ‘All That Remains,’ is expected to release later this month across iOS, PC/Mac, PS3 and Xbox 360. According to the Steam page the PC/Mac version is counting down to […]

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  • Catch an Updated Look at Capy’s Xbox One Indies Below and Super Time Force

    Catch an Updated Look at Capy’s Xbox One Indies Below and Super Time Force

    In addition to the originally planned Xbox Live Arcade release for Xbox 360, Capybara Games has confirmed that retro-tastic run’n gun action-platformer Super Time Force will now also launch on Xbox One, joining the indie studio’s previously revealed roguelike, Below. The only downside here is […]

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  • Xbox Black Friday and Cyber Monday Sales

    Xbox Black Friday and Cyber Monday Sales

    Screw camping out in line outside stores and battling stampeding crazies for bargains that will likely be topped later on in the holiday shopping season. Stay inside and do your video game shopping from home this Black Friday. (Of course that’s the whole point of […]

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  • Review: Contrast

    Review: Contrast

    I have a weakness for pulp fiction. Not just the Quentin Tarantino movie, but all great gritty, noir narratives. The seedy underside of humanity and the struggle to stay alive, and the choices people make to try to better themselves is often rife with conflict and dilemmas […]

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  • Review: The Wolf Among Us Episode 1: Faith

    Review: The Wolf Among Us Episode 1: Faith

    The concept of a public domain is great. If one accepts the idea that people generate fresh content from their own pen or keyboard–those who make video game reviews for instance–should not only get credit for creating something new but should also retain the right […]

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  • Indie Quickie: Final Exam

    Indie Quickie: Final Exam

    It takes a lot longer to fully review a game than it does to get a good sense of what a game is. Even with a full-time staff of writers it would be impossible to fully review the thousands of games that are released every […]

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  • Halo: Spartan Assault Coming Home for the Holidays on Xbox One and Xbox 360

    Halo: Spartan Assault Coming Home for the Holidays on Xbox One and Xbox 360

    No shocker here: Halo: Spartan Assault, that top-down twin-stick shooter released over the summer on Windows 8 PCs, phones, and tablets, is jumping over to consoles in time for Christmas. The Xbox One and Xbox 360 versions of Halo: Spartan Assault will be released via […]

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  • Clementine’s Story Continues in The Walking Dead: Season Two

    Clementine’s Story Continues in The Walking Dead: Season Two

    As promised in a banner tease posted over the weekend, Telltale Games today officially reveals The Walking Dead: Season Two. Picking up “many months” after the highly praised first season, Season Two will continue the storyline of Clementine, now older and fending for her own […]

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  • High-Definition Assassin’s Creed: Liberation to be Set Free in January

    High-Definition Assassin’s Creed: Liberation to be Set Free in January

    Around these parts, Assassin’s Creed III: Liberation turned out to be a whole lot better than big brother Assassin’s Creed III, but as a PlayStation Vita exclusive the game didn’t reach a large chunk of the franchise’s core audience. These fans missed one hell of […]

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