Posts Tagged ‘XBLA’
Friday, August 28th, 2009

There are videogame trailers are great and there are those that are terrible, not so often do you see one that’s simply ridiculous and funny. The “Serious Supermercial Trailer” for the upcoming PC and XBLA remake of “Serious Sam” stands out among the rest..
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Tags: PC, Serious Sam, trailer, XBLA
Thursday, August 6th, 2009

Another BFTP centered around a game that recently got a brand new remake, namely the classic beat-em-up “TMNT: Turtles in Time”. The game was originally released on arcade in 1991 and later ported to the Super Nintendo, which is where I know it from.
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Tags: BFTP, Turtles, XBLA, Xbox 360
Thursday, December 18th, 2008

One of my favorite games on the NES is Final Fantasy. To this day I can still play the game through savoring each moment. Most recently I have been playing the 2003 re-release for the PS1 which may diminish the nostalgia factor but definitely not enjoyment. Which got me to thinking, there are many more powerful, better looking, insanely more complex games available to me. Yet, out of all the games out their and all the ones I own, I’ve never played through a game as many times as Final Fantasy. For that matter, in my top five most played games of all time the only one made recently is Katamari Damacy for the PS2.
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Tags: featured, Final Fantasy, penny arcade, PSN, Weapon of Choice, XBLA
Wednesday, November 19th, 2008
Depending on the type of person you are, you are either excited by or dreading the upcoming Watchmen movie. If you are in the latter group then you will probably want to stop reading now. However, if you are the…
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Tags: Game Industry, Games as Art, Microsoft, movies, PC, PS3, PSN, Sony, Steam, Watchmen, XBLA, Xbox 360
Thursday, October 16th, 2008

Whenever the topic of the future of gaming comes up, I immediately begin blathering on about immersion, and how as time goes on, games only get more immersive. Normally, I’m referring to top notch visuals, high quality surround sound, and…
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Tags: DLC, Fable 2, featured, Game Design, Peter Molyneux, Pub Games, XBLA, Xbox 360
Wednesday, October 15th, 2008

For those of you who would prefer to read this review entirely in pirate speak, you may do so here.
Age of Booty (formerly Plunder) is a pirate themed RTS developed by Certain Affinity, and published by Capcom. From the start,…
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Tags: Age of Booty, Capcom, Cross Platform, DLC, Microsoft, PC, PS3, PSN, review, Sony, XBLA, Xbox 360
Monday, February 26th, 2007

Rumors have been circulating for a couple of days that the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles arcade game is coming to XBLA. This video seems to lend credibility to these rumors. Here’s the deal: I can neither confirm nor deny these rumors,…
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Tags: XBLA, Xbox 360
Saturday, February 24th, 2007

Luke Smith over at 1up recently sat down with Aaron Greenberg, Group Product Manager for Xbox 360 and Xbox Live, and asked him some questions about XBLA. Greenberg had some interesting things to say. For one, he confirmed the release of…
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Tags: Microsoft, XBLA, Xbox 360
Wednesday, November 29th, 2006

If you haven’t heard by now, DON’T download the update for Texas Hold ‘Em on the Xbox Live Arcade. The “update” (more of a virus if you ask me) has been reported to make the game unplayable over live - it…
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Tags: XBLA, Xbox 360