Live Arcade Review

Chime makes music starting this week

Pete — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 14:01:51 +0000

Chime is one of those games that try to push the boundaries of game design. The Chime gameplay mechanic is quite simple — put shapes on a grid with the aim of making music. Gamers will take control of one shape at a time, and then move and rotate it around the game space in [...]

Darwinia to be released Feb. 10

Pete — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 12:32:17 +0000

Xbox 360 gamers should look forward to February 10 because that is the day Darwinia+ is going to be released in the Xbox Live Arcade. Darwinia+, which is developed by Introversion Software Introversion, is a digital theme world for artificially intelligent polygons by Dr. Sepulveda. The world is “housed” in a network of ancient Protologic [...]

The Behemoth helps in Haiti effort

Pete — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 08:42:12 +0000

The recent earthquake in Haiti has brought such devastation and loss of life that everyone is doing their best to try and give help to the country and to Haitians who are suffering so much right now. The gaming community is joining in on this humanitarian effort in their own different ways. For example, The Behemoth [...]

RISK: Factions to be released soon for XBLA

Pete — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 00:55:33 +0000

EA Play Label, which is a part of Electronic Arts, Inc., is going to bring one of the most recognizable board games in the world to the Xbox Live Arcade. Hasbro’s Risk, one of the most popular strategy games of all time, will be coming to the Xbox this 2010. Risk will feature different warring factions [...]

Microsoft announces Game Room

Pete — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 02:12:05 +0000

Microsoft has officially announced another addition to the XBLA experience that will surely hook fans. The Game Room is being described as a modern and virtual take on classic video game arcades. The Game Room will seek to replicate the look, sound and feel of a video game arcade. It will be virtual place [...]

New XBLA game from NinjaBee being developed

Pete — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 00:46:02 +0000

NinjaBee, an independent video game developer, is kicking off 2010 with a new game that it is developing for the Xbox Live Arcade. And to mark this event, the developer is going to allot each Tuesday in the month of January to show off new art from the game in development. The artworks can be [...]

Call of Duty Classic strikes XBLA

Pete — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 07:30:48 +0000

I’ve been playing the hell out of Call of Duty: World at War 2 for the last couple of weeks. The multiplayer campaign is still as challenging as ever (good thing I can hold my ground against some of the better players in the deathmatches). And for those of you who I know bought the [...]

Brush up on your strategy with the new Greed Corp game

Pete — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 07:08:53 +0000

Strategy game fans will surely want to get the newest strategy game offering from Xbox Live Arcade. W! Games has announced the release of its turn based strategy game, Greed Corp. This new and innovative strategy game will make its appearance on the Xbox Live Arcade in the next couple of months. Greed Corp is [...]

Test your “clever”-ness with Encleverment Experiment

Pete — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 06:32:02 +0000

I love playing games that claim to make you smarter. It makes spending hours playing games seem like a self-improvement task, where you end up becoming a better person after all the button mashing. Blitz Arcade probably had the same thought that’s why it is launching the Xbox Live Arcade game Encleverment Experiment. Encleverment Experiment [...]

Xbox Live to release first not-for-profit game

Pete — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 05:53:26 +0000

Usually, when we talk about games, the usual topics that are discussed revolve around new releases, how awesome or bad a game is, or how much a game developer has earned from a hit game. Topics about charity is as alien as talking about talking about games that teach moral values (those will definitely be [...]