News

SEGA discounts all their XBLA titles.
Read More

Video games used to be rated by the people working at the Entertainment Software Rating Board, deciding just how violent, profane, sexy, and all-around kid-unfriendly a video game is, …
Read More

It’s been a great March for XBLA according to a sales analysis over the month. Beyond Good and Evil HD got over 76,000 players in the month with Torchlight …
Read More

FortressCraft, an indie game developed by Projector Games and bearing an incredible likeness to Minecraft,  has been selling very well. In its first six days online, it sold 58,572 copies and …
Read More

The Weekend Gamer is brought to you each Sunday. We will post a compilation of all the XBLA News, Reviews and Features we have run giving you an easy resource to keep up with our favorite digital distribution platform: XBLA

New Game Announcements: The past week has been full of announcements for new games, including: Red Johnson’s Chronicles, Backbreaker: Vengeance, Space Channel 5 Part 2, Sega Bass Fishing, Deadliest Warrior Sequel [Title Pending], Ugliest American, Xotic, and Burnout Crash.

Upcoming Release Dates: Microsoft clarified some of the upcoming XBLA releases for April. The rest of the month will include: Section 8 Prejudice (April 20th), Pinball FX2: Mars Table (April 20), Fancy Pants Adventures (April 20th),  Outland (April 27th),Trouble Witches Neo (April 27th), Nin2-Jump (April 27th), and Bangai-O HD (May 4)

Reviews: We spent most our week reviewing Xbox Live Indie Games, but expect to see our Might and Magic: Clash of Heroes HD and Yars Revenge HD reviews sometime in the next week. We recommend you buy: Zombie Football Carnage (XBLIG) and Ikagura (XBLA) and try: Alpha Squad (XBLIG), Poker Night (XBLIG), On a Roll (XBLIG), Dirche Kart (XBLIG) and Mute Crimson (XBLIG)

Podcast: We spent the entire show this week talking Section 8 Prejudice with Mark Yetter. Steve is playing the game for review, but we can’t tell you what we think yet. Make sure to subscribe to us on iTunes!

Game Night: Just a reminder, but we will be playing Hydro Thunder Hurricance with the community on the 29th. You will not want to miss this. We have some cool giveaways planned leading up to the event.

Read More

We previously reported on a tip from an industry source that Warner Bros was working on a Batman game for XBLA, titled Batman: Impostors possibly …
Read More

Developer WXP Games and publishers Valcon LLC and TikGames have announced thier new upcoming XBLA game Xotic. Xotic is a sci-fi first-person shooter in which the player fights through brightly colorful, …
Read More

Good news for fans of Japanese chiptunes mastery: Taito house band Zuntata is selling its delicious retro soundtrack for Space Invaders Infinity Gene—presumably so that people can enjoy the best part of Infinity Gene without actually purchasing Infinity Gene.

The soundtrack, dubbed Space Invaders Infinity Gene: Evolutional Theory, features 25 chip-packed songs selling for a cool $11.99 on iTunes. (You can also purchase digital versions from Amazon.jp and mora.jp.) The album features all the tracks from the XBLA version of the game, plus nine tracks from the original Java phone game and three additions from the iPhone update. Read More

Get you points ready, the sale starts now!
Read More

While Retro City Rampage hasn’t hit the XBLA scene quite yet, developer VBlank Entertainment has stepped up and has provided yet another way for fans to appreciate their upcoming …
Read More