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Alien Breed 3: Descent Coming November 17th

Alien Breed 3: Descent Coming November 17th

[HTML1] Team 17’s has announced that the final game in the Alien Breed series, Alien Breed 3: Descent, will be released on November 17.  The game will be available for 800 Microsoft Points on XBLA... Read More

Bionic Commando Rearmed 2 MegaCopter Boss Battle Video

Bionic Commando Rearmed 2 MegaCopter Boss Battle Video

[HTML1] A new video for Bionic Commando Rearmed 2 has been released, showing a boss battle with a huge chopper-like machine thingie named MegaCopter. It looks a lot like Contra, and even sounds like ... Read More

EA Reveals Three New PSN/XBLA/PC Games

EA Reveals Three New PSN/XBLA/PC Games

EA has just announced three new upcoming titles that are planned to release on the XBLA, PSN, and PC. The first game, called Warp, is developed by the  indie studio Trapdoor, and will feature "a... Read More

Limbo Review

Limbo Review

In the world of Limbo, your only friends are a tiny ray of light, or a wooden log that can help you get across a pond, or your own wits, that can help you get through extremely tough puzzles and mind-... Read More

Lara Croft and The Guardian of Light – Limited Free DLC

Lara Croft and The Guardian of Light – Limited Free DLC

Lara Croft and The Guardian of Light Arcade Game is getting free DLC on October 27th for the Xbox 360 Live Arcade.  The "All the trappings" DLC will only be free for 30 days and will add a new stag... Read More

EA introduces MicroBot

EA introduces MicroBot

EA today announced that they are working on a new arcade-style shooter known as Microbot which will be releasing in Winter 2011 for XBLA and PSN. The game offers a unique gameplay experience taki... Read More

Quake Arena Arcade Footage

Quake Arena Arcade Footage

[HTML1] Here are some videos of gameplay for the Quake Arena Arcade game that should be released for the Xbox 360 Arcade this holiday season.  A lot of people have been waiting a while for this and ... Read More

Konami Classic X-Men Arcade Coming To XBLA & PSN

Konami Classic X-Men Arcade Coming To XBLA & PSN

Konami has announced at the New York ComicCon 2010, that they will be releasing their original six player c-op game on the Xbox Live Marketplace and the Playstation Network as an arcade title.  You... Read More

DeathSpank: The Thongs of Virtue Review

DeathSpank: The Thongs of Virtue Review

DeathSpank, the hack and slash 'em up created by Ron Gilbert of Monkey Island fame, released back in July on the XBLA and PSN to critical and commercial applause. Only a few months later we have a seq... Read More

Sonic Adventure Review

Sonic Adventure Review

Retro gaming is a truly odd practice. There have been times when playing one of my favourite childhood games again has illuminated new complexities in said title that my feeble nine year old mind coul... Read More

Halo: Reach sells like crazy

Halo: Reach sells like crazy

Halo: Reach is truly the biggest Halo- heck, one of the biggest games- of all time. Following the footsteps of the conclusion to the grand Halo trilogy, Halo 3, Halo: Reach has become the biggest en... Read More

Dead Rising 2: Case Zero Review

Dead Rising 2: Case Zero Review

Dead Rising 2: Case Zero is a prequel to Dead Rising 2 which won't be released until later this month making Case Zero the perfect time to be released.  It is an arcade game exclusively for the Xbox ... Read More

New Crackdown 2 DLC Is Buggy

New Crackdown 2 DLC Is Buggy

Crackdown 2's newly released DLC, Toy Box (seriously, Toy Box) is riddled with bugs and glitches. Shacknews spotted players complaining of said glitches in the forums of the Ruffian Games website.... Read More

Shank Review

Shank Review

Since the days of the Greeks we have had heroes questing to save/revenge their women. From the days of Donkey Kong we've had a similar thing going on in our video games. In 2,500 years of story tellin... Read More

Suda 51 developing new XBLA and PSN title

Suda 51 developing new XBLA and PSN title

The mastermind behind No More Heroes, Goichi Suda, has announced his next side-scrolling, time-travelling (or something to do with time) side scroller for PlayStation Network and Xbox Live Arcade, and... Read More

Modern Warfare 2 bugs again, demoes start ‘thinking’ they’re full games

Modern Warfare 2 bugs again, demoes start ‘thinking’ they’re full games

As we all know by now, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2's demo was released last Wednesday, a year after the game's release. Surprisingly, though, the demo of Modern Warfare 2 comes with free SNK XBLA ... Read More

FADE Report: Toy Soldiers XBLA’s Bestseller this Year

FADE Report: Toy Soldiers XBLA’s Bestseller this Year

A report by Forecasting & Analyzing Digital Entertainment estimated this year's Xbox LIVE Arcade's bestselling title, and according to the, th bestselling XBLA game is not Perfect Dark, not Battle... Read More

New Browser For The Xbox Live Arcade Marketplace

New Browser For The Xbox Live Arcade Marketplace

There will be a new browser for the Xbox Live Arcade Marketplace, it was recently revealed by Major Nelson on his blog. 'Next week we'll be launching another way to browse... Read More

Castlevania: Harmony of Despair Release Date Confirmed

Castlevania: Harmony of Despair Release Date Confirmed

Castlevania: Harmony of Despair, the much anticipated XBox LIVE Arcade exclusive title, is set for release August 4, says Microsoft. Castlevania: Harmony of Despair will give you and upto five othe... Read More

Puzzle Quest 2 Review

Puzzle Quest 2 Review

The casual gaming scene is one of those phenomena that has escalated quickly over the past few years, and I'll admit that I fail to understand where the enjoyment lies in the whole thing. Solitaire is... Read More