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This Is Your 2011 Summer Of Arcade Lineup

6:10AM June 7, 2011 | Mike Fahey

Every year Microsoft selects a handful of Xbox Live Arcade games it considers the very best the platform has to offer and releases them once a week as part of the Summer of Arcade promotion. With Ubisoft’s From Dust and Fuelcell’s Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet making the cut this time around, we’re in for one hell of a summer. More »


Monday Night Combat Review: The Happy Warriors

8:20AM August 14, 2010 | Owen Good

Turrets. I can’t stop building and upgrading them in Monday Night Combat. Oh, they do a great job mowing down bots and other players. But it’s really because I’m a southern boy and a born sucker for Pitgirl’s saucy accent. More »


Monday Night Combat Provides Athletic Support

8:30AM August 9, 2010 | Owen Good

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As just mentioned in TWiG, Monday Night Combat arrives on Xbox Live Arcade this Wednesday. This developer’s diary gives a 14-minute look at gameplay, all of it under the Support class, who brings plenty of neat toys to the game. More »


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Monday Night Combat: The Game So Nice They Certified It Twice

4:00AM August 9, 2010 | Owen Good

Insiders noted that Monday Night Combat had yet to send out review codes, giving rise to bad-news theories about the game’s release. All that’s going on, says Uber Entertainment, is some post-release support pre-release. More »


Hydro Thunder Hurricane Review: I’m On A Boat, It’s Going Fast

7:20AM July 30, 2010 | Owen Good

It’s a summer ritual: Insert coin, stomp on the accelerator and hold on for dear life. A reboot of the much loved arcade original and Dreamcast speedboat racer, Hydro Thunder Hurricane brings that template to Xbox Live’s Summer of Arcade. More »


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The Assassin’s Green In Monday Night Combat

9:20AM July 29, 2010 | Owen Good

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Continuing the tour of class warfare in Monday Night Combat, Uber Entertainment today introduced us to the Assassin, the fastest character type in the upcoming class-based shooter for Xbox Live Arcade, packing both cloak and dagger. More »


Get Blitzed With Monday Night Combat

8:30AM June 20, 2010 | Owen Good

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Monday Night Combat, the class-based shooter coming soon from Uber Entertainment, is one of the “Summer of Arcade” titles releasing over five weeks beginning in July. Here is the game’s E3 trailer and some new screens detailing its Blitz mode. More »


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Buy The Summer Of Arcade, Get $10 Back

2:40AM July 30, 2009 | Mike Fahey

Microsoft wants to pay you $US10 for purchasing all five of the games showcased in this year’s Summer of Arcade promotion. More »


The Rising Price Of XBLA Games

6:00AM July 23, 2009 | Stephen Totilo

The average price of Xbox Live Arcade games on the Xbox 360 has risen by a $US1.74 since the Xbox 360 launched in November of 2005, according to Kotaku’s study of prices for more than 200 XBLA games. More »


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TMNT: Turtles In Time Re-make Knocked Back By ‘Splosion Man

8:40AM July 11, 2009 | Michael McWhertor

Here’s the bad news: the Xbox Live Arcade remake of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles In Time has been pushed back, now no longer the first entry in Microsoft’s “Summer of Arcade” promotion. Now the good. More »