Xbox Live Arcade Archive

  • Review: Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons

    Review: Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons

    Cooperative games aren’t new. But co-op games that don’t actually involve a second player are pretty much unheard of. Yet that is exactly what Starbreeze Studios’ Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons is. A beautiful world unfolds as two brothers, Big and Little, travel from […]

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  • Welcome to Midnight City, Majesco’s New Indie Gaming Hotspot

    Welcome to Midnight City, Majesco’s New Indie Gaming Hotspot

    This holiday weekend at PAX, publisher Majesco Entertainment announced the formation of a new label created with a focus to promote indie games and help independent developers get their projects released on PC digital download services, PlayStation Network, and Xbox Live Arcade. This new publishing […]

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  • Review: Cloudberry Kingdom

    Review: Cloudberry Kingdom

    Imagine a game that starts off with a papercraft version of a Rankin/Bass animated show (like Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, or Frosty The Snowman) and then transitions into gameplay that is a mix of traditional 2D platforming with a great big heaping dose of visual […]

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  • Spawn and Heihachi Throw Down in SoulCalibur II HD Online

    Spawn and Heihachi Throw Down in SoulCalibur II HD Online

    The respective guest stars from the original PS2 and Xbox versions of SoulCalibur II, Heihachi Mishima and Spawn, are returning to the weapon-based fighting arena in the game’s upcoming 10th anniversary HD refresh. Better than that, there are no longer any exclusivity deals preventing the […]

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  • Xbox One Day One Launch Lineup Set

    Xbox One Day One Launch Lineup Set

    Nope, a retail ship date for the Xbox One hasn’t been announced just yet, but today we at least now know what games to expect on whatever day in November Microsoft settles on. (Xbox One will be out in November, that much we know.) 23 […]

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  • Castle of Illusion Starring Mickey Mouse PSN Pre-Orders to Include Original Genesis Game and Other Goodies

    Castle of Illusion Starring Mickey Mouse PSN Pre-Orders to Include Original Genesis Game and Other Goodies

    Sega and Disney have confirmed the launch date for their Castle of Illusion Starring Mickey Mouse remake. The game will be available beginning September 3rd on PSN for PS3, followed by Xbox Live Arcade and PC digital download on the 4th. The price: $14.99/1200 Microsoft […]

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  • Polaris Live Streams the Xbox Live Summer of Arcade (Plus 1-month Xbox Live Gold Membership Giveaway!)

    Polaris Live Streams the Xbox Live Summer of Arcade (Plus 1-month Xbox Live Gold Membership Giveaway!)

    Every Wednesday throughout the Xbox Live Summer of Arcade, YouTube gaming personalities Lisa Foiles, JesseCox, Raychul Moore and GameGrumps will be hosting a live stream gameplay session for the current week’s new XBLA release. The series began last week with the release of Brothers: A […]

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  • Review: Storm

    Review: Storm

    As kids, most of us used to dream about what it would be like to be able to control the weather–and usually those dreams involved wielding lightning, tornadoes and monsoons like some kind of mad supervillain, wreaking as much devastation as possible. In Storm, a […]

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  • Review: The Walking Dead: 400 Days

    Review: The Walking Dead: 400 Days

    Season One of The Walking Dead, a video game based on the biggest Image comic around (not the AMC show), was a fantastic piece of storytelling that combined powerful voice work, thrills, and a sense of immersion that can only come from a video game. […]

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  • SoulCalibur II HD Online Does Battle on PSN and XBLA this Fall

    SoulCalibur II HD Online Does Battle on PSN and XBLA this Fall

    Returning to commemorate the game’s 10th anniversary, the legendary Soul Warriors of SoulCalibur II will be back in action in SoulCalibur II HD Online, unveiled today for digital download release this fall on PS3 and Xbox 360. All of the 10-year-old fighting game’s original modes–Arcade, […]

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