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XBLA Wednesday plus this week’s sales – October 24

By
Christine Mitchell
– Posted on October 24, 2012Posted in: Deals and Discounts, News

Only one XBLA release this Wednesday. Guilty Gear XX Accent Core Plus, the 2D fighter from Arc System Works, is available from today for 1200 MSP. Players can choose from among 25 fighters and engage in high-speed combat and compete in story mode or offline and online multiplayer modes. Hell Yeah! Wrath of the Dead Rabbit also received some DLC today, The Virtual Rabbit Missions for 400 MSP and the Pimp My Rabbit Pack for 240 MSP.

Deal of the Week didn’t include an XBLA games this week again, but there’s still some sales to be aware of. A Shoctober special sale sees 50% off Alan Wake’s American Nightmare (now 600 MSP) and Ugly Americans: Apocalypsegeddon (now 400 MSP), and the Kinect Central sale this week gives gamers 50% off the enjoyable Leedmees (now 400 MSP). If you’re lucky enough to be in a region with access to the Sales & Specials App then this week’s Scratch & Match losing offers are Gripshift, Ikaruga and Geon all priced at 400 MSP each. All sales are expected to last until October 29.

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Sales & Specials: bullets everywhere!

By
Andrew Crews
– Posted on August 7, 2012Posted in: News

sales & specials app

If you’re lucky enough to have the Sales & Specials app available in your region, then you might want to check it out once every few days. Within that app is a simple Scratch & Match style game where you can win some cool free content but as long as you play the game (win or lose) you will be prompted to save some money on various pieces of content that appear to change about once per week. This week is offering a special reduced price for a trio of XBLA schmups. You can pick up Sine Mora reduced by 400 MSP,  Radiant Silvergun  reduced by 240 MSP or Ikaruga reduced by 200 MSP. Be sure to pick them up through this app though as it is the only way to access these sale prices.

Sine Mora – Was 1200 MSP – Is now 800 MSP – Download the trial

Radiant Silvergun – Was 1200 MSP – Is now 960 MSP – Download the trial

Ikaruga – Was 800 MSP – Is now 600 MSP – Download the trial

Be sure to check out our review for Sine Mora, Radiant Silvergun and Ikaruga if you aren’t sure if these are the right games for you. To access the Sales & Specials app, you will already have needed to download it as it is currently not available for download on the dashboard. We aren’t sure if this is by design or simply a mistake but we will let you all know know if it pops back up somewhere on the dashboard in the future. If you do have the app, check these sales out and remember that they usually only last a week. So act fast!

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Radiant Silvergun review (XBLA)

By
James Heiger
– Posted on September 22, 2011Posted in: Featured Reviews, Reviews, XBLA Reviews

Radiant Silvergun was developed by Treasure. It was released September 14, 2011 and retails for 1200 MSP. A copy of the game was provided for review purposes.

Way back in 1998 a little game called Radiant Silvergun was released in Japanese arcades. Shortly thereafter it was ported to the Sega Saturn, but again only in Japan. But a funny thing happened that really doesn’t happen all that often. Somehow through word of mouth and game magazine hype this little game developed a following in the rest of the world. People started importing the game so they could play it. The only problem was that RSG was a limited release even by Japanese standards. Prices skyrocketed. Even today a copy for the Saturn could fetch between $150 – $200. Out of the reach of most gamers, this game continued to have great word of mouth for the last decade. It was, in truth, one of the most popular games that no one had ever played. But that is all behind us now. Finally the rest of the world gets to see what Radiant Silvergun is all about.

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Rewind Review: Triggerheart Exelica (XBLA)

By
Damon Fillman
– Posted on June 18, 2011Posted in: Reviews, Rewind Reviews, XBLA Reviews

Triggerheart Exelica was developed by Warashi and retails for 800 MSP. It was released on February 27, 2008.

Shoot em’ up (shmup) fans are an interesting crew. Most of them are not interested in fresh gameplay mechanics but simply the hunt for a high score and notoriously difficult challenges. Triggerheart Exelica attempts to throw a new concept into the genre—a hook mechanic—but the draw for hardcore fans will continue to be an immeasurable difficulty level that has them perfecting their skills and memorizing bullet patterns. If Triggerheart Exelica were to be judged by its challenge level, it would exceed expectations, but upon extraction it simply lacks the bells and whistles of better titles in the genre.

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XBLA developers representing in the top 100

By
Perry Jackson
– Posted on June 9, 2011Posted in: News


Develop is a game design website that focuses on developers in the gaming industry and with their Develop 100, they rank the top 100 game developers in the industry with association from Metacritic. While there’s plenty of console developers like Nintendo and PC developers like Blizzard on the list, the amount of XBLA developers in the list is heartening to hear. Playdead, makers of Limbo are at number 13 while Super Meat Boy’s Team Meat themselves took the number 21 spot. Let’s not forget about Treasure blasting up the 34 spot with The Behemoth taking up the castle crashin’ 53 spot. Be sure to check out the rest of the list to find which other great XBLA developers took spots from all over the world.

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Why the new Xbox needs XBLA

By
Damon Fillman
– Posted on May 26, 2011Posted in: Features


With E3 just around the corner and rumors of a new Xbox peeking out from under the bed, questions are popping up on whether or not the inevitable new generation of Xbox consoles will include backwards compatibility with the 360′s hundreds of Xbox Live Arcade titles. Will it happen, and does it have to happen for players to take the new system seriously?

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Rewind Review: Ikaruga (XBLA)

By
James Heiger
– Posted on April 12, 2011Posted in: Reviews, Rewind Reviews, XBLA Reviews

Ikaruga is a vertical shooter developed by Treasure and released on Xbox Live Arcade April 9, 2008. The game is a port of the arcade original that was released 2001. It also received a Japan-only port to the Dreamcast and a much later port to the GameCube in the US. With so many versions, why should we be concerned about yet another one? The answer is simple – this is the definitive version of the game.

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