Xbox

Yeah, This Is Basically The Road: The Game

Just in case you hadn’t yet picked up on the heavy – and welcome – inspiration The Road has had on upcoming Xbox Live Arcade title Deadlight, check out this new trailer.


March 21, 2012
News

Braid Developer Says XBLA Is Inhospitable For Certain Games

Kotaku AU

Xbox Live Arcade lags behind other digital distribution services like Steam, according to the developer of Braid, Jonathan Blow. Speaking to The Penny Arcade Report, Blow said that pricing was among the things making XBLA difficult to work with.


March 6, 2012
Xbox

Imagining A Future Without Xbox Live Arcade

It’s an established part of the current gaming landscape, for some perhaps even their favourite, but in a recent interview Microsoft’s Michael Wolf reminds us it won’t always be here.


February 29, 2012
PC

HD Jet Set Radio Blasts Onto Consoles And PC This Summer

Last week’s teaser is now this week’s confirmation. Sega will be releasing a revamped HD version of Dreamcast favourite Jet Set Radio for digital download on an as-yet-unspecified date this (northern) summer, on XBox Live, PlayStation Network and PC.


February 24, 2012
PlayStation

Sure Looks Like Jet Set Radio’s Headed To Xbox Live And PSN

The House of Sonic’s dropped a vague but drip-filled teaser that strongly suggests that the beloved inline-skating, graffiti-tagging Jet Set Radio game will be hitting modern consoles soon.


February 15, 2012
Xbox

Skullgirls Picked Just The Right Day To Reveal The Deadly Nurse Valentine

You just know the team at Reverge Games have been giggling to themselves for the past week in anticipation of today’s reveal of Nurse Valentine, the Skullgirls fighter with a prescription for pain.


January 31, 2012
Xbox

Xbox Live Arcade Game Leaks Onto Torrent Sites

PC games leak all the time. Even console games eventually turn up on torrent sites once their discs are pressed. But an Xbox Live Arcade game getting out, and one which isn’t that close to release, that’s a little stranger.


December 13, 2011
PlayStation

Tony Hawk Pro Skater HD Was My Favorite VGA Surprise

You can keep your Command & Conquer Generals 2 and The Last of Us, for me the biggest news out of the 2011 Spike Video Game Awards wasn’t a new game but the return of something old: Tony Hawk.


November 11, 2011
PlayStation

A Moon Knight Pinball Table? I’m Mailing Zen Studios My Babies

A year and a month ago I sat in a hotel room in Anaheim, California, telling the folks from Zen Studios how much their Marvel Pinball series for Xbox Live and the PlayStation Network needed a healthy dose of the fist of Khonshu. I don’t recall making a pact for my firstborn, but if I did I’ll totally honour it.


Xbox

The First Teaser For The Next Alan Wake Is Very Short

If you like teaser trailers that are shorter than your best burps, go watch the teaser for the new downloadable Alan Wake game. A longer trailer of some sort will air during the Spike Video Game Awards on December 10.