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Agent Joanna Dark hit the ground running in Perfect Dark, an epic tale of galactic conspiracies in 2023 America. Now this classic shooter comes to Xbox LIVE Arcade, rendered in greater definition and detail and sporting a silkier framerate than ever before. Fire up your Farsight and prepare for assignment—the Dark returns this winter. Play the original full game beautifully restored and back in full HD, 1080p at 60 frames per second! All the original game features are included plus new Xbox LIVE ones.
“Perfect Dark” starts their engines on March 17th at 9 a.m. GMT (2:00 a.m. PDT).
Published by Xbox LIVE Arcade and developed by 4J Studios, “Perfect Dark” will be available for 800 Microsoft Points everywhere and is rated M for Mature by the ESRB. For more details on “Perfect Dark” you can visit: http://www.xbox.com/games/p/perfectdarkxboxlivearcade/
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Konami Digital Entertainment, Inc. has announced that 3D Ultra MiniGolf Adventures 2 will be available for download on the Xbox LIVE® Arcade for the Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system from Microsoft. The latest iteration of one of the hottest downloadable minigolf games to date, 3D Ultra MiniGolf Adventures 2 brings innovative graphics, incredible open worlds, and exciting new courses that allow players of all ages to get right back into the swing of things this winter.
In 3D Ultra MiniGolf Adventures 2, players are challenged to navigate their ball beyond obstacles using the help of secret shortcuts, game-changing power-ups and traps to sabotage the competition. Players can also manipulate the game by using special pick-ups to destroy course obstructions or even interfere with competitor's shots.
Croteam, the creators of the first-person shooter Serious Sam: The First Encounter on Xbox LIVE® Arcade, will play their game with Xbox LIVE® Gold Members in an Xbox LIVE Game with Developers event. If you're a Gold member (if you're not a Member, upgrade now!) join Croteam and XBLArcade.com on Saturday, March 13, from Noon – 4:00 P.M. ET for some serious (har) action.
Return to the golden age of frantic, non-stop shooting action with Serious Sam's trademark onslaught of enemies rushing towards you at every turn. From the charging Sirian Werebull to the screaming Headless Kamikaze and the multi-story Ugh-Zan, all of the infamous minions of Lord Mental are back as you battle through more than 12 levels of bedlam set against the expansive backdrop of ancient Egypt with every square inch upgraded and reworked to create one of the most visually stunning experiences on Xbox LIVE Arcade.
The Xbox LIVE Arcade action-packed strategy-based game that lets you fly planes, zeppelins, and even drive tanks to help your unit succeed in protecting its base, receive a temporary price reduction as part of the ‘Xbox LIVE House/Block Party’ promotions for Xbox LIVE Gold subscribers. And with no arcade title being a part of the ‘Deal of the Week’ promotion, it shouldn’t be surprising then that Toy Soldiers climbed to the top of this week’s top 20!
Every week XBLArcade.com will be publishing the Top 20 list of Xbox LIVE Arcade titles based on the information posted on Major Nelson’s website. We think this will give you a much better idea what the other 23+ million Xbox LIVE members are playing in the realm of Xbox LIVE Arcade games and perhaps to better help you choose what Xbox LIVE Arcade games you want to spend those valuable Microsoft Points of yours on.
For the week of March 1st to March 7th, the Top Arcade Titles (Full Versions purchased), are as follows:
FunTown Mahjong brings the traditional Chinese board game to Xbox 360®, with a well-balanced design and unique style that is sure to keep you coming back for more. Play against friends over Xbox LIVE®, or take on the challenge of the A.I. opponents. With a tutorial for new players and featuring the 16-tile Mahjong rule set, FunTown Mahjong is great for Mahjong players of all experience levels. Get ready, you'll need strategy, wisdom, and luck to win!
FunTown Mahjong - Zen Garden Theme: Unlock the full version of FunTown Mahjong to play even more of this traditional Chinese tile game! The full version includes the ability to compete against your friends on Xbox LIVE or against AI opponents. The Zen Garden Theme allows you to play Mahjong in a Japanese garden surround by red and white Sukura blossoms and the springtime vista of Mount Fuji Mountain. FunTown Mahjong - Zen Garden Theme contains no new achievements and is available now for 160 Microsoft Points. There are no refunds for this item.
Drift around corners with guns blazing and take out legendary competitors in the fast-paced, top-down racing game Scrap Metal™. Fight your way through explosive, action-packed missions and defeat cunning bosses to add their vehicles to your garage. Customize your newly-acquired cars and then return to the track to blast through more enemies. Jump online with Xbox LIVE ® to race against your friends and crush their cars with the wheels of your monster truck in pulse-pounding online multiplayer matches. Also, Scrap Metal has full anaglyph 3-D support.
“Scrap Metal” starts their engines on March 10th at 9 a.m. GMT (2:00 a.m. PDT).
Published by Xbox LIVE Arcade and developed by Slick Entertainment, “Scrap Metal” will be available for 1200 Microsoft Points everywhere and is rated E10 for Everyone 10+ by the ESRB. For more details on “Scrap Metal” you can visit: http://www.xbox.com/games/s/scrapmetalxbla/
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Today First Star Software, Inc. and Catnip Games officially announced their upcoming production of a Boulder Dash® sequel for Xbox Live Arcade for release in Q3 2010. In cooperation with First Star Software, the owner of the Intellectual Property; and, with the assist of “simple plan production”, Catnip Games will deliver both charming and challenging entertainment to the XBLA worldwide community. The team is using the latest technology to present the unique gameplay and all of the characteristic elements associated with Boulder Dash® in a modern and incomparable style.
EA Partners, a division of Electronic Arts Inc. and award-winning independent development studio Klei Entertainment announced today an exclusive publishing agreement to bring the provocative new game Shank to Xbox LIVE® Arcade this summer. Featuring a unique art style inspired by graphic novels and golden age comics, Shank blends the intensity of classic 2D side-scrolling action games with a gripping and mature storyline. The cinematic brawler is a finalist for “Excellence in Visual Art” at this year’s Independent Games Festival and will be featured at the IGF Pavilion during the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco next week.
EA Partners, a division of Electronic Arts Inc. and leading independent developer Hothead Games announced today an exclusive publishing agreement that will bring DeathSpank to Xbox LIVE® Arcade in 2010. Developed under the vision of The Secret of Monkey Island creator and industry icon Ron Gilbert, DeathSpank blends a story filled with Gilbert’s unique humor and wit with classic and addictive action RPG gameplay.
“The team at Hothead Games is a perfect fit for EA Partners. They are a great example of how the EA Partners program continues to emphasize the importance of building strong relationships with the world’s top indie developers,” said Jamil Moledina, Outreach Director, Business Development at EA Partners. “DeathSpank is an engrossingly fun and hysterically funny experience, and we are all excited to have the opportunity to help introduce DeathSpank to gamers across the world.”
At the beginning of last week, we saw the popular Xbox LIVE Arcade first-person shooter classic that lets you battle through 39 levels of mayhem, or fight it out with your friends in DukeMatch, receive a temporary price reduction as part of the ‘Deal of the Week’ promotion for Xbox LIVE Gold subscribers. Not surprisingly then that Duke Nukem 3D climbed to the top of this week’s top 20! But the action didn’t stop there as mid-week saw the release of not one, but three new XBLA titles: Lazy Raiders, Greed Corp and Fret Nice.
XBLArcade.com is continuing our new weekly trend to publishing the Top 20 list of Xbox LIVE Arcade titles every week based on the information posted on Major Nelson’s website. We think this will give you a much better idea what the other 23+ million Xbox LIVE members are playing in the realm of Xbox LIVE Arcade games and perhaps to better help you choose what Xbox LIVE Arcade games you want to spend those valuable Microsoft Points of yours on.
For the week of February 22nd to March 1st, the Top Arcade Titles (Full Versions purchased), are as follows:
Experience the excitement of the world's hottest number game sensation! Buku Sudoku™ takes the pen-and-paper puzzler high-tech with HD graphics, helpful tutorials, single- and multiplayer game modes, multiple grid sizes, and the option to display hints, highlight errors, undo moves, and even solve puzzles. 1,200 puzzles give you plenty of opportunity to challenge your own brain, play cooperatively with friends, race head-to-head to see who can complete a board first, or compete in the new battle mode, where completing a line, row, or square will remove numbers from your opponent's board. It's Sudoku however you like to play it!
Buku Sudoku - Puzzle Pack 13: Single Player, Local Multiplayer 2-4, HD (High Definition). Want more Buku Sudoku? Upgrade to the full version now to unlock 1200 challenging puzzles, four grid sizes, three difficulty levels, two modes, and three varieties of multiplayer action. Play cooperatively with friends, race head-to-head to complete a puzzle first, or try the new battle mode in which completing a line, row, or square will remove numbers from your opponent’s board! Buku Sudoku - Puzzle Pack 13 contains no new achievements and is available now for 160 Microsoft Points. There are no refunds for this item.
Put your foot soldiers, snipers, cavalry, and fighter pilots to the test in Toy Soldiers. Poised to be a smash hit on Xbox LIVE® Arcade, Toy Soldiers is an action-packed strategy-based game in which players command antique WWI toy soldiers vying for control of the trench-filled battlefields of Europe. Deploy an exciting arsenal such as tanks, cavalry, biplanes, and flamethrowers in vintage WWI toy dioramas. Developed by Signal Studios exclusively for Xbox 360, Toy Soldiers allows you to take control of individual units or control the entire battlefield from a strategic view. Integrating multiple game genres and world-class visuals, Toy Soldiers is a unique and action-packed entertainment experience!
“Toy Soldiers” go to war on March 3rd at 9 a.m. GMT (2:00 a.m. PDT).
Published by Microsoft and developed by Signal Studios, “Toy Soldiers” will be available for 1200 Microsoft Points everywhere and is rated T for Teen by the ESRB. For more details on “Toy Soldiers” you can visit: http://www.xbox.com/games/t/toysoldiersxbla/
Prepare yourself to take on the developers and reviewers in brainy Xbox LIVE® Arcade game Encleverment Experiment.
Blitz Arcade, a division of leading independent developer Blitz Games Studios, is throwing down the gauntlet today and challenging the community to battle it out against the developers and reviewers on their party puzzler, Encleverment Experiment.
Players aged five and upwards are invited to join the brilliant and eccentric Professor Ivor Question in his funky lab on Wednesday 3 March between 17:00 and 22:00 GMT. This is also a great opportunity for everyone to pick up their Show Maker and Host With The Most Achievements, while finding out just who is the most enclevered by proving their prowess in a huge range of fun and fast-paced challenges testing memory, dexterity and reflexes.
There are several review sites involved, including www.xblarcade.com and www.ready-up.net
The Odd Gentlemen and 2K Play have announced the P.B. Winterbottom Timely Competition Leaderboard Contest! In this contest challenge you shall vie with other time bending ladies and gentlemen for the quickest level completion times! Each week for the next three weeks The Odd Gentlemen and 2K Play will be selecting one of the competitive levels for you to pit your pie-chasing wits against one another for the fastest time. Each week ten winners will be picked from the player rankings to win cool prizes!
How do you do this? Easy!
Earlier this month at the X10 Media event, Microsoft announced the upcoming Xbox LIVE Arcade Block Party* promotion. The upcoming event, which runs clear through March will see a ton of new content released to Xbox LIVE. We here at XBLArcade.com want to let you know about not only the four games already announced, but the special promotion associated with buying all four of these titles. So, today we’re announcing additional promotion details and the release schedule1
SEGA Europe Ltd and SEGA® of America, Inc. announced the first game developed specifically for the download market from the world’s fastest hedgehog. Sonic the Hedgehog 4: Episode I will be available via download on Microsoft XBLA, bringing with it the addictive classic 2D side scrolling action that Sonic fans have been waiting 16 years for and will be the first in a series of episodic adventures.
Sonic the Hedgehog 4: Episode I offers sublime 2D gameplay through beautifully rendered HD environments. Fans will be able to speed through each level with the classic Spin Dash move, and destroy enemies using the Homing Attack. Sonic the Hedgehog 4: Episode I sees the return of the much-loved special stages and takes players through a variety of different Zones, all inspired by the Mega Drive era.
Ska Studios has proudly unveiled their latest project, The Dishwasher: Vampire Smile, and confirmed that it will release “when it’s done” exclusively on Xbox LIVE Arcade, the premier destination for downloadable games. Additionally, it was announced that The Dishwasher fans will be able to experience Vampire Smile at the Ska Studios booth during the PAX East expo that is taking place March 26-28 in Boston.
Last week we saw the Xbox LIVE Arcade multiplayer-only game that allows up to 24 players to enjoy the thrills of Pacific WW2 battles, receive a temporary price reduction as part of the ‘Deal of the Week’ promotion for Xbox LIVE Gold subscribers. It is pretty obvious that people were overjoyed by this decision as Battlefield 1943 climbed to the top of this week’s top 20! But the action didn’t stop there as mid-week saw the release of the highly-anticipated time-bending Misadventures of PB Winterbottom.
To better help you choose what Xbox LIVE Arcade games you should be choosing to spend your valuable Microsoft Points on, XBLArcade.com is continuing last week’s new addition to publishing the Top 20 list of Xbox LIVE Arcade titles every week based on the information posted on Major Nelson’s website. We think this will give you a much better idea what the other 23+ million Xbox LIVE members are playing in the realm of Xbox LIVE Arcade games and help with your decision of what to buy with those MS Points.
For the week of February 15th to March 1st, the Top Arcade Titles (Full Versions purchased), are as follows:
Greed Corp is a fresh and innovative turn-based strategy game for Xbox Live Arcade. It will be the first in a series of different types of games situated in a rich, fictional world inspired by the industrial revolutions and their destructive effects on the environment. Featuring an innovative land collapsing mechanic which constantly alters the strategic landscape, you must destroy your enemies or the very land they stand on before they do it to you. Build Harvesters to reap your land for credits and spend them on armories and cannons. Manufacture walkers to conquer enemy territory and order carriers to transport your troops across the map. Ultimately, defeat your enemies by eliminating their troops and destroying or capturing their structures.
“Greed Corp” gets greedy on February 24th at 9 a.m. GMT (2:00 a.m. PDT).
Published by Easy Tiger Media and Valcon Games and developed by W!Games, “Greed Corp” will be available for 800 Microsoft Points everywhere except Asia and is rated E for Everyone by the ESRB. For more details on “Greed Corp” you can visit: http://www.xbox.com/games/g/greedcorpxbla/ or http://www.xblarcade.com/node/2772
Duke Nukem, the politically incorrect action hero and ultimate alien ass kicker, defends Earth and its babes from alien invasion in Duke Nukem 3D. This is the award winning game that helped define the FPS genre, introducing unparalleled interactivity, and a main character that spoke. Take the fight to the aliens across 39 levels featuring Hollywood, Los Angeles, a moon base, and alien spacecraft. Innovative items like the Jetpack, HoloDuke, Shrink Ray, or Pipe Bombs allow you to fight the aliens in any style you want. Defeat the aliens, so Duke can get back to some R&R with a stogie, a warm belly, and a bottle of Jack.
Duke Nukem 3D is the Deal of the Week running from Monday, February 20th to Sunday, February 29th. During this time Xbox LIVE Gold Members everywhere can pick up Duke Nuken 3D for 400 Microsoft Points. That’s 50% off the regular price of 800 Microsoft Points. This game requires the Xbox 360 hard drive for storage and is multiplayer only.
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