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In: Gaming News|xbox
29 Mar 2010Sometimes, it’s the dead of night and you’re just sitting in the dark, eating some cold pizza and crying to yourself. You’re waiting for something good to happen. Then you kind of feel this tinge you can’t really define — it’s in the bottom of your gut, so you decide to tune into those nets. [...]
In: Gaming News|Indie|xbox
8 Mar 2010Indie developer Derek Yu’s Spelunky is making the platform leap from PC to Xbox Live Arcade some time this year, a release date we’re starting to believe courtesy of a quartet of new screen shots. The procedurally generated action adventure platformer—not to be confused with Spelunker HD for PlayStation Network—which Yu describes as “La Mulana [...]
In: Gaming News|xbox
10 Feb 2010A big congratulations to Introversion for their big day – Darwinia+ launched on XBLA. We don’t usually post release info (not that we don’t want to – it is just time constraints), but Mark has been such a big help to indievision (and the indie community in general) that we’d like to say – Please [...]
In: Gaming News|xbox
18 Jan 2010The top-selling shoot-em up of this console generation is coming to North America, as Aksys Games announces a U.S. release for Cave’s brilliant Xbox 360 gothic lolita shooter, DeathSmiles. DeathSmiles is a scrolling shooter, but instead of piloting spaceships through unknown galaxies, you fly young angels and their demonic familiars through the gothic world of [...]
Microsoft confirmed last night it was bringing the Game Room virtual hang out space to Xbox 360 and Games For Windows this year, an online arcade and—ahem—virtual console for your Xbox Avatar. What games will Xbox 360 owners get? Initially, the service will launch this spring with 30 original arcade and old school console games, [...]
In: Gaming News|Microsoft|xbox
6 Jan 2010According to a press release summing up Microsoft’s CES 2010 keynote that dropped just before Ballmer took the stage, the company will be releasing Project Natal in “holiday season 2010.” We heard earlier today about what year the future controller would be arriving, but now, folks, now we know during which group of months it’ll [...]
In: Gaming News|Microsoft|xbox
6 Jan 2010Update 2: According to Major Nelson, Game Room users will have the ability to purchase games for their virtual arcade and play them on both their Xbox 360 and Windows PC. Additionally, new Game Room titles will be made available every week. Users will be able to invite Xbox Live friends into their respective (and [...]