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by Richard on July 30, 2007
This week the Live Arcade gets its next Uno - Spyglass board games:# Full featured games: Four classic board games to choose from. Play Chess, Checkers, Mancala, or Reversi.# Video integration with...
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by Richard on July 30, 2007
XBLA Wednesday is late this week as I wanted to wait until my 360 got back from the repair center before blogging about the release of Wing Commander Arena for the Live Arcade - I've been a fan...
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by Richard on July 30, 2007
While Rare has had little retail success with its disc-based games since being acquired by Microsoft we now know that they've broke even with at least one game - Jetpac Refuelled for the Live...
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by Richard on July 20, 2007
With my 360 on its way to that big repair facility in the sky (err, in Texas) I managed to miss this week's Live Arcade releases. It's probably for the better that I found out about them two...
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by Richard on July 11, 2007
While software pirates everywhere have been using emulation to play videogame ROMs on systems they weren't intended for since the 1990s, it wasn't until recently that Sega discovered they...
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by Richard on July 03, 2007
This week's Live Arcade release is a bare-bones port of the Atari classic missile Command. It's got the standard laundry list of features: remade 3D graphics, a mode where you can play the...
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by Richard on June 26, 2007
Heads up, Catan Fans -- here comes another digital port of a European board game eager to suck up your Live Arcading hours. This week's Live Arcade release is Carcassone, a tile-based game in...
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by Richard on June 22, 2007
Finally, an outlet for that great crunchy-and-cheesy game idea that you've been mapping out in your school notebooks: Unlock Xbox from Microsoft and Doritos. How does it work? 1. Submit your...
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by Richard on June 19, 2007
And now for something different: this week's Live Arcade release, Band of Bugs, is a turn-based tactical strategy game. Think Final Fantasy Tactics or Front Mission but replace the knights and...
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by Richard on June 19, 2007
While Hudson forgot to invite me to their big Bomberman Live party I'm not so bitter that I would take it out on the game. Which, by the way, sounds totally awesome: IGNYou run around a map,...
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by Richard on June 12, 2007
We're used to seeing arcade oldies retooled for the Xbox Live Arcade but this week we're getting a different kind of classic: Prince of Persia. While nowadays the Prince runs around in three...
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by Richard on June 06, 2007
Isn't there already a Pac Man title on the Live Arcade? Maybe, but that's not going to stop Namco from selling you another one -- this "Championship Edition" of the original arcade...
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by Richard on June 05, 2007
Bomberman is about to make his Live Arcade debut -- there's a full-page advertisement in the latest issue of EGM for one "Bomberman Live" and a little Internet prodding revealed that...
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by Richard on May 30, 2007
Now here's a racer I can enjoy -- Mad Tracks is an original title in which you race tiny Hot-wheels-esque toy cars around elaborate tracks set up in environments like toy stores and restaraunts....
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by Richard on May 26, 2007
XBLArcade brings us the news that Taito has announced (by way of Famitsu) a port of their platforming-puzzler Exit for the Xbox Live Arcade. In Exit you play a stylized characted named Mr. Esc -- a...
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by Richard on May 23, 2007
Microsoft returns to the arcades of the 80s for this week's Live Arcade releases -- the vertical shooter Xevious and the historically-inaccurate-but-pun-rich Rush 'n Attack: "Rush 'n...
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by Richard on May 15, 2007
What's more exciting than a two-game Xbox Live Arcade Wednesday? An XBLAW where one of the games is free! Cheapskates rejoice -- Aegis Wing, a 2D shooter with online multiplayer for up to 4...
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by Richard on May 09, 2007
The Gamerscore Blog offers us the details on six upcoming Xbox Live Arcade titles:·"Mad Tracks." This 3-D racing party game from Load Inc. and D3Publisher recalls all the fun of playing...
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by Richard on May 09, 2007
The two-games-a-week streak had to end eventually -- this week's lonely release is Double Dragon:"Double Dragon," from Empire Interactive Ltd., is a genuine re-creation of the classic...
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by Richard on May 07, 2007
I was excited to hear that a game based on Rocketmen: Axis of Evil was coming to the Live Arcade -- Rocketmen is a "card game" where the cards have punch-out pieces that you build little...
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by Richard on May 07, 2007
I've been cursing the "Hard" AI in Catan for days now -- they never want to trade their wool for my brick, they always have the longest wall, and they're constantly putting the...
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by Richard on April 30, 2007
I don't know what kind of strange world we live in now but this Wednesday we'll be seeing our third week in a row of double-releases on the Xbox Live Arcade in the form of Catan and a...
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