2009 was the most profitable year for the Xbox Live Arcade service so far according to estimates by the research group Forecasting and Analyzing Digital Entertainment (FADE). The online gaming hub made $103.4 million dollars in the 2009 fiscal year, a whopping 34% jump in profits from 2008. Recession…what recession!? One of the major [Continue]
Some of the updates promised during Microsoft’s keynote at E3 will be rolling out in waves later this summer. The big new features like Twitter, Facebook and Last.fm integration won’t be included, but there are still a ton of new goodies coming our way. Improvements to the party system, additions to avatar customization and better [Continue]
The addicting button smasher Ikaruga will be 50% off until July 20th. Usually priced at 800 Microsoft Points it’s now only a cool 400 and ready for you to download. This vertical scroller is visually gorgeous and adds a new slant to scrolling shooters with the use of it’s ‘polarity’ feature. A great twist in [Continue]
Star Trek DAC is out today on XBLM. The top-down shooter will cost you 800 Microsoft Points (around $10). Those who dare game on PC’s or on PS3′s will have to wait a little longer, but it should be available to you guys sometime today. If you’re lucky. Speaking of Star Trek, did any of [Continue]
Less than a year after the game’s debut, Castle Crashers has passed the 900,000 users mark on it’s leaderboard. And in anticipation of the inevidable 1,000,000 users mark, the game’s developer The Bahemoth is having a contest. If you can guess the date and time that the main Castle Crashers leaderboard will get it’s [Continue]
G4TV posted this new trailer for the top down shooter Star Trek D-A-C. It’s cut in with footage from the movie coming out this Friday (like you didn’t already know geek). The game will feature Single player, co-op and online mulitplayer shenanigans for you Trekkies. The game is expected to be released sometime this month [Continue]
Like playing zombie games but hate all of that overt violence, blood and gore? OK never mind dumb question. Of course you like that blood and gore, that’s why you play zombie games. Well if you want to tame your zombie experience you now have an alternative to Left 4 Dead of Resident Evil. Zombie [Continue]
Update: The 1 vs 100 Beta will go live tomorrow June 1st for Xbox Live Gold Members. XBL Gold Members will be able to play 1 vs 100 for free! Someone at Micorsoft must have bumped their head. Or this may be a limited time offer because they do know they can milk this game [Continue]
Get ready for another dose of 80′s rock supremacy. Next week’s Rock Band DLC is chalk full of Styx and REO Speedwagon. In addition they also threw in some songs from their collaboration as Hautewerk. You can buy all the tracks individually for the usual 160 Microsoft Points. The Styx and REO Speedwagon can also be [Continue]
According to 1up.com it looks like the release of Marvel vs. Capcom on the Xbox 360 and Playstaion 3 ports is almost a reality. There were hints back in October when the ESRB for the two platforms was first revealed but the story was dead in the water soon after. Now however Xbox360Achievements.org has posted a list [Continue]
