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Weekly Roundup: November 17 – Minecraft, Molyneux and Marketplace mayhem
Weekly Roundup compiles all the biggest news stories, reviews and features from the week into one handy post on the weekends. Another week of Xbox Live Arcade is in the books. This one’s been all over...
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Newsbits: November 23 – Black Friday Edition
We love Xbox Live Arcade. The variety, the quality…the price! Today, Black Friday, the holiest of US shopping days, aims to make that last point even sweeter by slashing prices on just about...
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Bastion builds a wall of 1.7 million sales
Supergiant Games have revealed that Bastion sales have reached 1.7 million across all platforms. The action-RPG was first released on XBLA as part of Microsoft’s 2011 Summer of Arcade promotion...
View ArticleSuperGiant Games reveals Transistor coming 2014
SuperGiant games, the creators of Bastion, just announced on Twitter a reveal trailer for their upcoming game Transistor. You can see it above! As for whether or not this will come to XBLA,...
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Indies need someone they can trust for usability and QA testing — How about...
Somewhere in San Diego there exists a couple of buildings. They’re buildings with glass windows and a soft feeling, or so I’ve been told. They’re buildings that are “not too intimidating” when...
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It’s Red’s turn in Supergiant’s Transistor
It beckons, and you respond. What else would you do? It’s not as if an abundance of other options manifest themselves, really. Your surroundings tell you it will be dangerous to go alone without it,...
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Call of Juarez: Gunslinger draws inspiration from Bastion and Hollywood
Meet Haris Orkin, writer and voice director behind the critically acclaimed Call of Juarez: Gunslinger. He assisted Techland on the first Juarez game back in ’05, when he suggested the polish...
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Friday Top Five: Top five XBLA games that require a sequel
Whoever coined the phrase, “Too much of a good thing,” likely never played a video game. Sure, mostly because the saying dates back to well before Pong ever pinged a virtual paddle, but in some small...
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Xbox 360’s best XBLA games of all time: #5 – 1
Xbox Live Arcade began its life on Microsoft’s Xbox 360 simply enough. When eager gamers bought up Xbox 360s on launch day (November 22, 2005), they found a free copy of Hexic HD pre-loaded on their...
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XBLA Fans’ most anticipated games of 2014
Last week, you may have caught our five-part feature looking ahead at as many XBLA games and their Xbox One brethren as we could possibly cram into one week’s worth of articles. If you missed it, go...
View ArticleThe Behemoth helping other indies with funding, user experience & QA
The independent developer who brought XBLA gamers BattleBlock Theater, Alien Hominid and Castle Crashers has announced that, in addition to game development, it has two other ways it hopes will result...
View ArticleBastion coming to Xbox One
Here’s your daily reminder that time flies: Bastion, one of XBLA”s most critically acclaimed titles, originally launched five years ago as part of 2011’s Summer of Arcade. To celebrate the game’s wood...
View ArticleBastion free for previous owners
Those of you who have been on Xbox since the 360 might remember the Xbox Live Arcade better know as XBLA, hence our name. That was a different time, back then people used to say “downloadable game”...
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Pit People Preview: Bear Essentials
When it comes to describing Pit People, I’m really struggling. The individual gameplay elements stack up logically, and clearly draw inspiration from the best in class, so that bit is easy. The...
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Xbox 360 & Xbox One HUGE Spring Sale!
Microsoft is doing their spring sale this week – and it’s a big one! There are tons of great Xbox 360 and Xbox One ID@Xbox and indie games on sale. See all the sales below and check out our reviews...
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