One of the most famous, successful and beloved franchises, Lode Runner, has just been revived in next-gen splendor on the Xbox Live Arcade by Tozai Games and SouthEnd Interactive. Except for the classic features that made the franchise a success, Lode Runner for XBLA comes with some extra features, to keep it up and running [...]

The 2008 Xbox Live Arcade Awards “ceremony” is over and the Game of the Year was decided: according to Microsoft, that is The Behemoth’s mega-hit Castle Crashers. Not a very big surprise, even though the little game had some solid competition on XBLA.
Still, the game won three awards, as voted by the players: Best [...]

Some of you might still remember that not long ago Microsoft’s imposed limit on XBLA games was 50MB. Today, we have an Xbox Live Arcade game weighting an incredible 1.2GB – Watchmen, which apparently encountered no problems upon launch. And not because Microsoft is now allowing for such huge games to hit XBLA, but because [...]

A new and rather strange problem is hitting Xbox 360 owners these days, as sources confirm that an email problem via Microsoft has already caused the deletion of some Gamertags and it could be possible that even more will follow.

Apparently, there is absolutely no fix for this problem and Microsoft is working madly to [...]

Namco likes to believe that classics never get old, they just get better and therefore the company announced the Xbox 360 release of Namco Museum: Virtual Arcade in Europe this April. With over 30 titles on offer, the collection might keep you busy for a while, especially because it comes packed with some modern features, [...]

The XBLA wonder Braid was initially slated for a mid October release on PCs, it was eventually delayed to the first quarter of 2009, so PC owners will get the chance to play the game sometime in February-March next year. But the strangest thing is the reason why the game was pushed back a bit.

According [...]

All Christmas movies have a scene in which some happy family members sit in front of a fireplace and enjoy the holidays – I always wanted to live such an experience but never had the chance. Probably some of you are in the same situation. But now have no reasons to be upset anymore, since [...]

Unless you have heard about Dofus or Wakfu MMO role playing games, you probably have no idea who Ankama is. But things are going to change since the French developers have partnered with Microsoft to bring a new IP to Xbox 360 consoles, Islands of Wakfu an “adventure/beat’em all” game.
The interesting part is that the [...]

We’re used to get a few new Xbox titles every week, but it seems that this one is not such a productive one for gaming: no new titles seem to be released, and that not only drives us mad, but Microsoft too. So, in order to right the wrongs and still offer us something worthwhile [...]

The PSOne classic car combat game Vigilante 8, released about ten years ago by Activision, marks its return to the next-gen consoles, this time as an Xbox 360 family member. This new and improved version of the game can be downloaded now for 800 MS Points from the Xbox Live Arcade.

Developed by Isopod Labs, Vigilante [...]