Tag Archive | "Xbox 360"
Week in Arcade: Perfect Dark
The next to last week in the XBLA Block Party brings an upgrade of a N64 FPS that is not Goldeneye, but the next best thing. Perfect Dark As an update, not a remake, of the N64 classic, this fixes almost everything that was wrong with the original… mainly the frame rate. Perfect Dark was a technological [...]
Continue reading...Ranked Game Path Coming for MLB 2K10 (Update)
Wednesday, March 17, 2010
Update: That was fast. The patch is live and should download next time you sign in. 2K Sports actually made some progress this year with their baseball franchise, which over the past few years had lagged so far behind Sony’s The Show it was nothing short of a joke. Unfortunately, with great progress comes great foul [...]
Continue reading...BioShock 2 DLC on Disc, 2K’s Excuse Absurd
Saturday, March 13, 2010
People who forked over the money for the downloadable multiplayer maps in BioShock 2 noticed something pretty quick, that the download was instant. The file size on the Xbox 360 was a meager 108k, the bare minimum, and 24k on the PC. So, why are players being charged for content that is already on the [...]
Continue reading...Cross-platform Xbox 360, Phone, PC Game Shown
Tuesday, March 9, 2010
Those wondering how the recently announced ability to play Live Arcade games across the three Microsoft platforms will work have their answers. During a presentation at TechEd Middle East, Microsoft’s Eric Rudder showed a basic platform title running on his theoretical work PC. From there, he puts it onto his Windows Phone Series, plays briefly, [...]
Continue reading...Halo Reach Beta Trailer Now Available
Wednesday, March 3, 2010
After being leaked this morning, the Halo Reach beta trailer is now official. Bungie promised something new, and they were not lying… jetpacks. Lots, and lots of jetpacks. That brings up the question why jetpacks were not part of prior Halo games, but hopefully that little plot hole is cleared up somewhere in the story. Other [...]
Continue reading...Week in Arcade: Lazy Raiders, Fret Nice, Greed Corp
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
The first triple decker of 2009 marks this weeks releases, and they’re not half bad. Lazy Raiders Quite a bit of fun, this simple maze/collectible title has the player using only the A button and the left analog. The idea is quite simple, to move an explorer (or your avatar) around a map by spinning it, as [...]
Continue reading...Three New Super Street Fighter IV Characters Revealed
Thursday, February 18, 2010
Three of the rumored Super Street Fighter IV characters have been confirmed by a series of Famitsu scans. Street Fighter III fans will be rejoicing as they battle it out with Ibuki, Makoto, and Dudley. One more rumored fighter is left, a newcomer to the franchise named Hakan, an Arab wrestler. He was not shown [...]
Continue reading...Section 8 Coming to PS3 as Download
Thursday, February 18, 2010
Released to retail on the Xbox 360 and PC, online FPS Section 8 is skipping retail for PS3 owners. Instead, it will be a download only, but it comes with some bonuses. For instance, players can host their games through their own PC, and will include the DLC as a bonus, not a separate paid [...]
Continue reading...Midway Games Disappear from XBLA
Wednesday, February 17, 2010
Were you waiting to download some of the Midway classics on the Xbox Live Arcade? Titles like, say, Smash TV, Robotron, Ulitmate Mortal Kombat 3, Gauntlet, Root Beer Tapper, Joust, Paperboy, Defender, or Cyberball? Well, you’re time has run out. All of the above titles have been removed from the Live Arcade. If you previously downloaded [...]
Continue reading...Week in Arcade: The Misadventures of PB Winterbottom
Wednesday, February 17, 2010
Is Microsoft holding back with another single release week, or is the surge in high quality retail releases a cause for the limited selection recently? The Misadventures of PB Winterbottom A unique spin on the silent era films of the early 1900s, Winterbottom concerns use with, who else, PB Winterbottom. His quest is one of love… deep, [...]
Continue reading...Samurai Shodown Sen Finds Publisher in XSEED
Friday, February 12, 2010
It took a while, but the latest 3-D installment of the SNK/Playmore franchise Samurai Shodown, subtitled Sen in the US (Edge of Destiny elsewhere), has a publisher. Originally set to be released earlier this year by Ignition, the game suddenly disappeared from various websites. Thankfully, XSEED games has stepped up to deliver the game to US [...]
Continue reading...All Xbox 1 Online Services Discontinued Soon
Friday, February 5, 2010
One of the benefits of Xbox Live is the ability to always be online. With the exception of a few companies who demanded their own servers (EA specifically), all Xbox Live games remain online and running. As of April 15th, that is no longer the case. That’s right folks, as of April 15th, 2010, all Xbox 1 [...]
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