10 Apr, 2012

As is now the custom for Wizards of the Coast, a dual announcement of the new 2013 Core set of Magic: The Gathering cards along with Duels of the Planeswalkers 2013 has been released today. Both come this summer, the latter to XBLA, PSN, Steam, and iPad. DOTP is a fairly rigid version of the trading card game, reducing the enjoyment quite significantly, but if...

6 Apr, 2012

Spanish studio Tequila Works have unveiled the first gameplay video for their upcoming Xbox Live Arcade Game – Deadlight – and it’s looking fantastic. This will be the first game from the developer and is being published by Microsoft Game Studios. The game is set in a post-apocalyptic 1986 West Coast America where a mysterious disease has...

30 Mar, 2012

Polytron, the studio behind indie game Fez, has finally dated the title for release on XBLA. Originally slated to appear in 2009 but delayed due to some complications, the perspective-switching game is set to launch on April 13th for a price of 800 MSP. Co-creator Phil Fish recently made a bit of a splash at GDC 2012, although it wasn’t something that some...

25 Mar, 2012

Well, when you have a few busy weeks of releases, it’s always a bit of a relief when things start to quiet down again. Following Mass Effect 3 and Konami’s onslaught of Silent Hill titles, it looked like nobody was ever going to catch a breath. Well, now’s our chance before April kicks off a whole other round of releases. Silent Hill HD and...

23 Mar, 2012

Xbox Live Arcade might be headed to the graveyard, and with last year’s scuffle between several indie developers and Microsoft, some might argue that the sun has set on Microsoft’s premier destination for indie developers. With the boom of app stores for iOS devices, the rise of the Android app store, and Steam’s ever-growing popularity, it...

22 Mar, 2012

On the 18th of April Microsoft are bringing “Arcade NEXT” to Xbox Live. Every Wednesday till 9th May, a new downloadable title will launch on the marketplace. That’s not it all though! April will also see an increase in available gamerscore from all downloadable titles, with a possible 400 gamerscore, and 30 achievements, up for grabs in every...

21 Mar, 2012

Title: SINE MORA Platform: XBLA Developer: Digital Reality, Grasshopper Manufacture Publisher: Microsoft Games Studio TL;DR: Wassup retro shmup?! Family Friendly? Click here for more information. “Sine Mora,” Latin. Translation: “Without Delay.” There’s plenty of rhyme and reason behind Digital Reality and Grasshopper...

21 Mar, 2012

If you’re somebody who can appreciate games of a harder caliber, then you probably had the balls to challenge Dark Souls. If you’re somebody who appreciates harder games with a retro twist, then you’ll have the balls to step into the flight arena of Sine Mora. In an artful 3D twist on old school side-scrolling shmups, Digital Reality and...