This week on Xbox Live Arcade: The Secret of Monkey Island 2 & Blacklight: Tango Down
This week on Xbox Live Arcade: The Secret of Monkey Island 2 & Blacklight: Tango Down

Two of 2010′s most hotly anticipated XBLA releases are finally here this week, in the form of The Secret of Monkey Island 2: LeChuck’s Revenge and Blacklight: Tango Down. Both games were released... Continue Reading »

First batch of Toy Soldiers DLC rolls onto Xbox Live
First batch of Toy Soldiers DLC rolls onto Xbox Live

Toy Soldiers received its first round of DLC yesterday, in the form of the 400MSP add-on pack ‘The Kaiser’s Battle‘. The pack offers you the chance to take on the role of the French army... Continue Reading »

E3 2010: The Secret of Monkey Island 2: LeChuck’s Revenge
E3 2010: The Secret of Monkey Island 2: LeChuck’s Revenge

Video games have been around a long time. It’s not something we’re normally conscious of in this frenetic industry, where today’s bestselling title is a tenner in the bargain bin tomorrow,... Continue Reading »

Sale Celebrates Sonic’s 19th Birthday
Sale Celebrates Sonic’s 19th Birthday

To celebrate Sonic the Hedgehog’s 19th birthday Sega has decided to hold a sale on all Xbox Live Arcade Sonic titles available. Each game will be available for 240 points (down from the usual 400), with... Continue Reading »

E3 2010: Report from the show floor – Limbo
E3 2010: Report from the show floor – Limbo

Possibly my most anticipated game of the show was indie platformer Limbo – a black and white visual symphony that I thought, going into E3, could be the next Braid. Having played it, that thought has... Continue Reading »

Hydrophobia E3 Trailer
Hydrophobia E3 Trailer

Dark Energy Digital has released a new trailer for its incredibly wet survival adventure game Hydrophobia. As shown in the trailer the game places a heavy emphasis on the use of water, with the realistic... Continue Reading »

Pac-Man Championship Edition DX Coming In The Autumn
Pac-Man Championship Edition DX Coming In The Autumn

Just when you thought you could never have enough Pac-Man love in your life Namco Bandai goes and proves you wrong. Pac-Man Championship Edition DX is the follow up to 2007’s Pac-Man Championship Edition.... Continue Reading »

Xbox Live Arcade June 2010 “blowout” Sale
Xbox Live Arcade June 2010 “blowout” Sale

After the success of April’s XBLA blowout sale, Major Nelson has revealed that another is on the way in celebration of this year’s E3 conference. The promotion runs all week next week (16th... Continue Reading »

This week’s Deal of the Week: Summer of Arcade 2009
This week’s Deal of the Week: Summer of Arcade 2009

This week’s Deal of the Week is possibly the best yet, offering Gold Members at least 50% off last year’s XBLA Summer of Arcade titles. All five of the games on offer are excellent value at... Continue Reading »

Xbox LIVE “Summer of Football” kicks off this weekend
Xbox LIVE “Summer of Football” kicks off this weekend

It seems everyone’s jumping on the World Cup bandwagon at the moment – and quite rightly so. Despite our distinct lack of wins over the past 40 years, the England team deserve no less than... Continue Reading »

Telltale Games developing episodic Back to the Future and Jurassic Park games
Telltale Games developing episodic Back to the Future and Jurassic Park games

Telltale Games – purveyors of such fine point and click XBLA adventure games as Sam & Max Save The World and The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition – have plans to bring episodic... Continue Reading »

This week on Xbox Live Arcade: Earthworm Jim HD
This week on Xbox Live Arcade: Earthworm Jim HD

The 16-bit cult classic Earthworm Jim hits Xbox Live Arcade this week, priced at 800MSP and with a bit of an HD overhaul. Jim was just an ordinary Earthworm until a space suit fell out of the sky and landed... Continue Reading »

6 games on sale in this week’s Deal of the Week
6 games on sale in this week’s Deal of the Week

This week, Gold Xbox Live Members can get their mitts on a whopping six games at cut prices of up to 50% off each. Our pick of the bunch has to be fiendishly addictive puzzler Peggle, with Battlefield... Continue Reading »

Review: Ben 10 The Rise of Hex
Review: Ben 10 The Rise of Hex

Storyline Ben 10 is the latest Cartoon Network craze taking the kids (and their parents wallets) by storm – it’s the story of Ben Tennyson who, at the age of 10, found a strange alien device... Continue Reading »

XBLA Contra: Hard Corps remake on the way
XBLA Contra: Hard Corps remake on the way

Xbox Live Arcade is set to receive a Contra remix in the shape of Hard Corps: Uprising, due this Winter. Uprising is the spiritual successor to Contra: Hard Corps on the Sega Genesis, and features Konami‘s... Continue Reading »

Snoopy Flying Ace swoops onto XBLA today
Snoopy Flying Ace swoops onto XBLA today

Snoopy Flying Ace lands on Xbox Live Arcade today, priced at 800MSP. The title is a third-person flying/shooting type affair, with the player controlling the aforementioned Beagle in his Sopwith Camel... Continue Reading »

This week’s Deal of the Week: Movie Mania
This week’s Deal of the Week: Movie Mania

This week’s Gold Members-only Deal of the Week is entitled “Movie Mania“, and offers 50% off three film-based games and DLC packs. Prince of Persia Classic – 400MSP (usually 800MSP) Transformers:... Continue Reading »

This week on Xbox Live Arcade: Voodoo Dice and Doom II
This week on Xbox Live Arcade: Voodoo Dice and Doom II

Voodoo Dice and Doom II are this week’s Xbox Live Arcade games and will hit the Marketplace tomorrow. Not much is known about Voodoo Dice at this point, other than it’s a puzzle game about... Continue Reading »

This week’s Deal of the Week: Avatar Games and Gear
This week’s Deal of the Week: Avatar Games and Gear

Your lucky old Avatars are in for a treat, as this week’s Gold Member’s only Deal of the Week is a bunch of cut-price goodness centred around our beloved mini-me(s) - three XBLA games and... Continue Reading »

Privates – Intimate XBLA game might not be approved
Privates – Intimate XBLA game might not be approved

A new game designed by Zombie-Cow entitled Privates is set in exactly that… someones private areas! Locations include vaginas, bottoms and goodness knows which other places, where naughty beasties... Continue Reading »