The more I see of Ubisoft’s forthcoming download-only first-person survival game I Am Alive, the more I’m digging it. This new trailer shows you how realistic combat is in this survival-focused, post-apocalyptic city. Read more »
Bethesda announced today that a day Xbox gamers have been awaiting for a very long time has finally come: the original Doom is available for download from Xbox Live Arcade. Read more »
Details about Xbox Live Arcade’s “House Party” promotion have leaked today, revealing the four titles that will be available in weekly succession, most likely starting in February. This year’s batch takes the “arcade” out of the picture, with a lineup of mostly top-notch first-person shooters. Read more »
Alan Wake‘s upcoming Xbox Live Arcade sidequel, American Nightmare, is taking a page out of Quentin Tarantino’s From Dusk Till Dawn for its awesome-looking new game mode, “Fight Till Dawn.” Read more »
Every Summer, Microsoft gathers a killer lineup of great Xbox Live Arcade games and releases them once-per-week over a month or so. It’s happened for several years now, and many Xbox users have begun looking forward to this tradition because the games in the “Summer of Arcade” are usually top-notch. Here’s this year’s complete roster, along with screens from each game! Read more »
Didn’t you know? Zombies are the new vampires. Gamers have fought zombies ad nauseum for the last few years in games like Left 4 Dead and its sequel, and zombie-themed expansion packs for games like Call of Duty: World at War and Red Dead Redemption. Even the hero in the Dead Space games battles a futuristic version of the reanimated dead. And let’s not forget the casual title mega-hit Plants vs. Zombies. So why is Microsoft Game Studios publishing yet another zombie-themed game, exclusively for Xbox 360? Because this one is unlike anything you’ve played before. Developer Undead Labs was formed with the intention of creating the world’s first zombie apocalypse MMO. While the Read more »
Nintendo has Club Nintendo. Now Microsoft has created “Xbox Live Rewards” to reward players for doing things they already do. What’s the reward? Microsoft Points, which you can use to buy anything on Xbox Live, just like other MS Points you purchase with your own money. So what do you have to do to earn MS Points through Xbox Live Rewards? Most of them involve spending your hard-earned money, but on the upside, you’re spending it on stuff you’d buy anyway. Stuff like buying or renewing an Xbox Live membership, buying downloadable games and items on Xbox Live, including specially-designated Xbox Live content. UK users can activate Sky on their Read more »
Following up on the “Summer of Arcade” that featured awesome downloadable games like Limbo, Hydro Thunder Hurricane, and Lara Croft & the Guardian of Light, Xbox Live Arcade is planning another month-long set of four A-list games, all of which look just as wildly creative and original as the summer titles. Here’s a full breakdown of all four games, complete with screenshots. Read more »
For the first time ever, Lara Croft has shed her Tomb Raider moniker, and taken up residence in a game that’s only available as a download. Maybe even the most radical shift of all: Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light is not played from a third-person perspective. Instead, it’s “isometric,” which means you play from above, looking down at an angle. And it turns out, this fresh new take on gaming’s most iconic female is exactly what the doctor ordered, because Guardian of Light absolutely cannot be missed. Read more »
“HYDRO THUNDER!!” shouts the announcer when you first start up the second title in Xbox‘s “Summer of Arcade.” If those words sound familiar from the ghosts of arcades past — or even if they don’t — let them usher you into the fast-paced world of high-speed boat racing. As Xbox Arcade titles go, Hydro Thunder Hurricane looks and plays every bit as good as any off-the-shelf title, with gorgeous visuals, detailed maps, and tremendous replay value. Read more »
