It’s a relatively small update on Xbox Live this American Independence Day, but that doesn’t mean that there’s nothing worthwhile to download. A pair of new Arcade titles are out that just might steal a good hunk of your day. Spelunky is already being compared by some to Super Meat…
Read MoreTwo great things that go great together… wait, no they don’t. Good thing these two Xbox Live Arcade releases have nothing to do with each other then. The single biggest release on the service this week is far and away The Walking Dead Episode 2: Starved for Help. Telltale’s incredible…
Read MoreMagic 2013 hits Xbox Live this week with a deck full of card battling action along with some new Marvel pinball and a blue blur of a sale. It never ceases to amaze me how much people still like games like Magic 2013. Based on maybe the most popular card…
Read MoreThe full lineup of games for Xbox Live’s yearly ‘Summer of Arcade’ promotion has been revealed. Get ready to spend some points this July. There’s a little something for everyone in the this year’s edition of the event. Two (pretty much) sure fire winners, two intriguing possibilities, and one possible…
Read MoreTop down racers are a bit of a rarity these days, and top down racers that are actually good? Perish the thought. Remember Micro Machines? Those little toy cars were seemingly everywhere years ago (much like their fast talkin’ spokesman) and I can’t help but think about them in a…
Read MoreBabel Rising headlines this very slow week on XBLA as the doldrums of Summer loom large. Microsoft’s Summer of Arcade promotion is a long ways off for Live users. The service hasn’t really seen a meaty update in a few weeks and things are lookin’ a tad sparse. SoA is…
Read MoreThere’s a few things to like about the E3 edition of the Xbox Live Update. A nice sale on DLC for Gearbox’s fan favorite FPSRPG is chief among them. The company had supported the h-e-double hockey sticks out of the game and there’s a beefy amount of game available as…
Read MoreThe first single player expansion for batman: Arkham City went up on XBL this week. Not into clowns? There’s also a nice sale on Popcap’s catalog and some vintage Sega classicsMake that overpriced Sega classics. Or maybe not, depending on how much you love the absolute classics of their respective genres.…
Read MoreOffroad racer, Jeremy McGrath’s Offroad, will be making its way to the download services next month. The game actually sounds pretty solid with up to eight players supported and a nice selection of customizable vehicles promised. In Jeremy McGrath’s Offroad, players race four-wheeled, 800-horsepower offroad race trucks with tons of…
Read MoreBob Kirkman’s The Walking Dead has had a good deal of success on pretty much every medium it has infected. Comics, television, and now video games. I have to say, I wasn’t really a fan before I fired up the new video game incarnation of the fiction from Telltale Games.…
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