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It’s Happened: Snoop Dogg Is Making A Video Game

Disclaimer: Considering that the game is called Way of the Dogg, I’m gonna go ahead and call the rapper in question Snoop Dogg instead of Snoop Lion. Anyway, the man himself has gone ahead and made a video game, or at least lent his likeness and music to one.


Demo For Panzer Dragoon ‘Sequel’ Leaks Onto Japanese XBL

Yesterday, a demo for upcoming Kinect action game Crimson Dragon was accidentally released on Xbox Live in Japan before being swiftly pulled. But not before people could download it and record it being played.


Super TIME Force May Have Just Released The Most Perfect Video Game Trailer

It has everything. Gameplay footage from one of the slickest looking games in the pipeline (and it’s from the guys behind Sword & Sworcery). A Saturday morning cartoon intro. And dubstep. Plenty of dubstep. Because it wouldn’t be a video game trailer without it!


Wreckateer: The Kotaku Review

This review of Wreckateer is a little late because I was also under siege from large stones last week, some of them burning. They were just in my kidneys. While Wreckateer may be more enjoyable than a trip to the urologist, it still involves its own degree of waiting and uncertainty, and likewise requires you to follow a strictly prescribed treatment.


Spelunky: The Kotaku Review

Sometimes a video game is like a razor blade — just millimetres thick yet sharpened to a fine edge sharp enough to draw blood if you’re not paying attention. Once you learn that truth, such a game requires your total attention lest you wind up bleeding a lot. Spelunky comes to the Xbox 360, sharp enough to etch itself into your memory, time and time again. And even though you’ll wind up raw from its rough scrapings of your mind and reflexes, you won’t be able to stop playing.


Spelunky Can’t Wait To Kill You

You’re going to die a lot in Spelunky. The indie platformer hits Xbox Live Arcade tomorrow, bringing with it a rogue-like structure that switches everything up each time you play through it. That means you’re going to find different traps, monsters and drops in each cave you venture through.


Deadlight Is Just You, Your Xbox And The Apocalypse

Part of the appeal when Deadlight was originally shown off was how lonely and bleak it looked. Then some trailers came along full of narration and dialogue and it all got a bit too noisy.


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.


Braid Developer Says XBLA Is Inhospitable For Certain Games

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.


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.


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