Along with the second epidose of Penny Arcade Adventures, another expensive outing will be available for Live Arcade fans on Wednesday. Jeff Foxworthy can invade your room for the asking price of $15 in Are You Smarter than a 5th Grader? The Fox TV show has been a hit, mostly because people actually end up [...]

I swear, no cake jokes in this post.
This Wednesday, Microsoft is letting loose Portal: Still Alive onto the Live Arcade. There are 14 new challenge maps in this Live Arcade exclusive. It will come in at 1200 MS Points unless the price, like the cake, is a lie. Oh, no cake jokes. Sorry.
If the achievements [...]

Behemoth has stated that a long awaited patch to make their spectacular Castle Crashers playable online for many people who had issues is done. Oh, it’s not actually available yet. It’s just done. It’s still has to pass through the infamous Microsoft certification process. The extra time has been spent patching other various glitches and [...]

Contrary to what Marc Whitten told the world months ago, Microsoft will be keeping all of its Live Arcade games on the service. Microsoft’s VP John Schappert stated that “the information about XBLA delisting had been taken out of context.” He goes onto to confirm that with the launch of the New Xbox Experience come [...]

The latest Zune Software, version 3.0, adds a bunch of new features. One nifty one allows you to add songs to your download list when listening to FM radio. See, that is nifty. However, even niftier is the launch of Zune games.
To start off this apparently new service are two games… both of which are [...]

Something happened to Samurai Shodown on the Live Arcade. When it was announced by Major Nelson as one of the games for this week, he listed it at 400 MS Points. However, astute readers pointed out that the Xbox.com page for the game listed it at 800. Major Nelson/Larry Hyrb replied in the comments with:
“Yea…I [...]

The so called “summer of Xbox Live Arcade” may be over, but that hasn’t stopped the release of what is easily one of this writer’s all time favorite games from hitting the service. SNK’s Samurai Shodown II is a classic, pure, and beautifully refined 2-D fighter, easily one of the best you’ll ever play. It’s [...]

SNK fans rejoice. While we’re still waiting for Samurai Shodown on the Arcade in any form, King of Fighter’s can certainly hold us over. A leaked Tokyo Game Show exhibition list has revealed the title on SNK’s slate. The game was re-released on the PlayStation 2 over the summer in Japan as King of Fighters [...]

Enjoying the addictive beat-em-up action of the near classic Castle Crashers? If not, it’s likely because you’re having trouble getting online, or you’re being booted from all of the matches you’ve attempted to get into. Never fear, as the word has made its way to developer The Behemoth and a patch is incoming. This was [...]

A weekly update on the status of Bionic Commando has revealed the game is doing quite well. While Capcom expected 100,000 units across all platforms (PC, PS3, Xbox 360), Rearmed beat the odds for 130,000 units over its first week on sale. This is viewed by Capcom that buyers want four things:
We are tired of [...]