Xbox Live Arcade Archive

  • Review: Doodle Jump for Kinect

    Review: Doodle Jump for Kinect

    When NBA star Kevin Durant is talking about you in a national cell phone ad campaign, you know you’ve earned a place in both the national pop-culture consciousness and the App Store Hall of Fame. Given the breezy and ubiquitous success of Doodle Jump—original developer […]

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  • The Walking Dead: 400 Days Release Date Schedule Confirmed, Starting Today on PS3

    The Walking Dead: 400 Days Release Date Schedule Confirmed, Starting Today on PS3

    When Telltale said the 400 Days DLC episode for The Walking Dead: Season One would be available in early July, they sure meant it. For PS3 users, early July means today, as soon as the PlayStation Store update goes down. That’s in North America of […]

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  • Contest: Doodle Jump for Kinect XBLA Code Giveaway

    Contest: Doodle Jump for Kinect XBLA Code Giveaway

    Mobile “jump ‘em up” sensation turned motion-control console game, Doodle Jump for Kinect is available now on Xbox Live Arcade, bringing vertically-scrolling platformer fun to the living room big screen. Who wants to point, flap, step, clap and jump The Doodler to platforming glory? Well, […]

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  • The Walking Dead: 400 Days DLC Episode Out in Early July

    The Walking Dead: 400 Days DLC Episode Out in Early July

    In the latest episode of Telltale’s ‘Playing Dead’ web series, developers working on the upcoming 400 Days DLC for The Walking Dead: Season One share more details about how the new episode relates to the first season and bridges into the second season. The basics […]

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  • Terraria Digs Up Collector’s Edition Treasure on PS3 and Xbox 360

    Terraria Digs Up Collector’s Edition Treasure on PS3 and Xbox 360

    Even more Terraria crafting, digging and adventuring goodness is coming your way later this summer from 505 Games. In addition to a PlayStation Vita release along with versions for smartphones and tablets, 505 will be releasing a retail Collector’s Edition package for the recently released […]

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  • Review: Dungeons & Dragons: Chronicles of Mystara

    Review: Dungeons & Dragons: Chronicles of Mystara

    When gamers talk about classic beat ’em ups, games like Golden Axe, Double Dragon, Final Fight and Streets of Rage are always the first to be remembered. Capcom’s Dungeons & Dragons fantasy brawlers deserve to be on that all-time list as well. Now more than […]

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  • Review: Call of Juarez: Gunslinger

    Review: Call of Juarez: Gunslinger

    Let me tell you about the fun time I spent battling drug cartels in downtown LA. Oh wait, that’s not what happened. That was another Call of Juarez. I remember now. Let me recount the time when my brother and I fought our way through the […]

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  • Review: Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon

    Review: Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon

    One has to imagine that the first question that most people are going to have about this game is, “Does this game have anything to do with Far Cry 3?” The short answer is, “No.”  A slightly longer, more dorky, answer is “Yes, but it […]

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  • Pac-Man Museum Compilation Gobbles Up Digital Platforms this Winter

    Pac-Man Museum Compilation Gobbles Up Digital Platforms this Winter

    Pac-Man’s new age Ghostly Adventures not doing it for you? Fear not, Namco Bandai will give Pac-Man nostalgia fiends a fix of retro pellet chomping later this year. Pac-Man Museum, announced for digital download release on PC (via Steam), PSN (for PS3 only, no Vita […]

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  • 505 Games Storms E3 with Bank Robbers, Brothers, Mobile Terrarians and Yes, Zombies

    505 Games Storms E3 with Bank Robbers, Brothers, Mobile Terrarians and Yes, Zombies

    Likely to get lost in the shuffle up against the next-gen glitz and glamor of the big E3 publisher showcases, 505 Games has put together a solid lineup of sleeper games, largely of the digital download variety, to present at next week’s video game extravaganza. […]

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