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Fez Pleases While It Teases

By
John Carson
– Posted on December 18, 2010Posted in: Features, Media, News, Videos

Perspective is key in the long unreleased indie darling Fez. A new trailer released by developer Polytron Corporation has given us perspective as to where development has taken them in the months past their early 2010-targeted release date. Lead Designer Phil Fish and crew have added Canabalt creator Adam Salzman along with Paul Robertson from the Scott Pilgrim VS the World: The Game team to lend their animation chops, and it shows! The strangely 2D-only video of the dimension-bending platformer shows the first 2 1/2 minutes of the game, which sells the game on it’s charm alone. Check it out below the aptly named “Fez Begins” and start the countdown for the re-anticipated release coming sometime in (hopefully early) 2011.

FEZ BEGINS from fish on Vimeo.

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X-men Arcade Review (XBLA)

By
Lucas Fox
– Posted on December 18, 2010Posted in: Media, Reviews, Screenshots, Videos, XBLA Reviews

The game was designed originally by Konami and then brought to XBLA by Backbone Entertainment, a division of Foundation 9 Entertainment.  The player chooses one of six X-Men:  Cyclops,  Colossus,  Wolverine,  Storm,  Nightcrawler, or Dazzler. Their objective is to stop the villain Magneto from wreaking havoc on human civilization. They must fight through an army of hundreds of Sentinels and supervillains such as Pyro, Blob, Wendigo, Nimrod, The White Queen, Juggernaut, and Mystique.  Later, Magneto kidnaps Professor X and Kitty Pryde, prompting the heroes to go on a rescue mission. The heroes fight their way to Island M and ultimately to Magneto’s base on Asteroid M where the final battle with the Master of Magnetism takes place.

If you were lucky your arcade had the full on 6-player mode, and if you didn’t have the nice arcade, you had the cheesy 4-player cabinet.   The question is, how well did this classic age?   Is it worth spending the 800 MS Points ($10 US)?

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Section 8 Prejudice Preview: Rewriting the Rules

By
John Laster
– Posted on December 15, 2010Posted in: Features, Previews

Section 8 was a flawed gem. A diamond in the rough relegated mostly to bargain bins, the original Section 8 pushed new ideas into the first person shooter genre. It overcame minor bugs, mixed reviews and the stigma of being a full priced multiplayer only game, developing a small cult following along the way. Section 8 is back and ready to do an orbital drop again, but this time TimeGate Studios is rewriting the rules.

With the freedom that self publishing gives them, TimeGate Studios is pushing the boundaries of what has been traditionally accepted as normal. Section 8 Prejudice is a fully fledged sequel to Section 8; however, it will be released on Xbox Live Arcade in early 2011 for 1200 Microsoft Points ($15), nearly a fraction of the cost of the original. The transition from a $60 retail product to an Xbox Live Arcade sequel is a new one in this industry. We had some trepidation that the production values would suffer or that the game might feel too much like a rehash of the first, but that was all alleviated when we went hands on with Prejudice this past week.

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Indie Games Winter Uprising hub

By
Ross Adams
– Posted on December 13, 2010Posted in: Features, News, Screenshots, Videos

You may, or rather should have heard of the Indie Games Winter Uprising by now. But if you haven’t here’s what you need to know. The developers behind the Indie Games on Xbox Live Marketplace decided they wanted an event in the vein of a “Summer of Arcade” and other such promotions. Resigned to the fact Microsoft wasn’t going to make one for them they took it upon themselves to do so. Thus the Winter Uprising was born, originally intended to take place during the first week of December it has now been extended to include the entire month.

We here at XBLAFans are passionate in our feeling that the Indie Games section deserves more recognition than it currently receives. As such we have created this hub for the games that will be included in the Uprising. Here you’ll find a brief description of the games, a link to the developers website, screenshots, trailers, pricing (if available), and for those games already released there will be download links and reviews.

The games are being released pretty irregularly, with several having already been delayed due to last minute bugs so be sure to check back often and see what’s new! Continue reading “Indie Games Winter Uprising hub” »

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Robot enthusiasts rejoice: Microbot will offer twin stick fun on a cellular level with sparkly co-op sprinkles on top.

By
Vlad Micu
– Posted on December 13, 2010Posted in: Features, Interviews

The following article is based around an email interview conducted by our team with Naked Sky’s CTO Joshua Glazer. Naked Sky is also known for their previous XBLA title RoboBlitz, which was released back in November 2006z.

Microbot is a twin stick shooter that lets the player battle malicious viruses and diseases as a microscopic nanotech robot injected into someone’s bloodstream. As players travel travel through veins, bones, lungs and other organs, they can collected data fragments that allows them to customize their microbot with powerful weapons, defensive systems, movement parts, and special abilities. What got yours truly’s blood pumping about this title, is the planned cooperative drop-in/drop-out mode.
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Quake Arena Arcade fraggin’ it up on XBLA this week

By
Ross Adams
– Posted on December 13, 2010Posted in: News, Screenshots

It’s been a long time coming but finally the Xbox Live Arcade version of Quake 3 Arena, in the form of Quake Arena Arcade,  will be hitting the Marketplace this week Wednesday December 15th.

You of course can expect the standard Quake modes, Deathmatch, Capture the Flag and Harvester. You’ll be able to play across thirty classic maps and twelve Xbox-exclusive arenas. All of this with updated HD visuals and widescreen support to go with a new single player campaign.

You’ll be able to pick up Quake Arena Arcade for 1200 Microsoft points but while you wait you can check out the screenshots below.

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Xbox Live Deal of the Day kicks off on December 21st

By
Andrew Crews
– Posted on December 12, 2010Posted in: Features, News, Previews

On December 21st, Microsoft will be kicking off 11 days of sales on the Xbox Marketplace.  Last year’s countdown to the new year sale was a huge success and this year’s sale promises to be even bigger.  It will cover less time but offer more items.  Last year, the sale was 1 deal per day for 20 days.  This year, there will be 3 deals per day for 11 days. Continue reading “Xbox Live Deal of the Day kicks off on December 21st” »

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Harm’s Way/Doritos Crash Course Review (XBLA)

By
Cameron Titus
– Posted on December 9, 2010Posted in: Media, Reviews, Screenshots, Videos, XBLA Reviews


Harm’s Way was created by Justin Carpenter, developed by BongFish, and published Doritos/Microsoft Game Studios. Doritos Crash Course was developed by Wanako Studios, and published by Doritos/Microsoft Game Studios. They were released 12/8/10 on the XBLA Marketplace for $0.00

Every year we seem to get at least one free XBLA game. First it was Yaris, then Undertow, and then last year Doritos launched a game titled Dash of Destruction. It wasn’t the best game, but it was free and pretty fun. That was about a year ago, this year things have changed. Focusing on releasing quality games we get two titles for the Unlock Xbox contest, and both are definitely above the bar set by their predecessors.

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X-Men Arcade reboots on December 15, timed XBLA exclusive

By
Cameron Titus
– Posted on December 8, 2010Posted in: Media, News, Videos


One week from today you and up to 5 friends will by slicing, dicing and blasting your way through X-Men Arcade. That’s right, the arcade classic is coming to your living room! Full details after the jump.

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Get out of Harm’s Way, onto the Dortios Crash Course and survive Bomberman Battlefest today!

By
Cameron Titus
– Posted on December 8, 2010Posted in: Media, News, Videos


You heard it right, it’s Wednesday, and that means new Arcade titles! This week we’ve got three titles, two of which are free! Complete details on each title after the jump.

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