Tweet Outland is a gorgeous 2D platformer with a beautiful silhouette aesthetic. The world comes to life in what can only be described as an incredibly smart, refined, and fluid 2D platformer set inside the visual stylings of a jungle shadow box, or animated black felt impressionist canvas. It’s truly...

Tweet Spurred on by an influx of titles from Microsoft’s 2010 ‘Summer of Arcade’ initiative, August saw record breaking sales of 17.5 million dollars for downloadable titles on the Xbox Live Arcade. In a time when games and their budgets represent huge holes impeding the progress of...

Tweet Summer of Arcade continues this week with Castlevania Harmony of Despair, then Monday Night Combat and the summer ends with Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light. Major Nelson reminds us that if we purchase all five titles, we’ll receive 1200 Microsoft Points back. GrE will have a review for each...

Tweet Indie Developer, Straw Dog Studios just released a video for the upcoming (Spring 2010) XBLA Arcade Peggle-esque Space Ark. Bounce that penguin up into the fruits, and score yourself a healthy snack! Following are the features the developers are boasting about: Trigger a ‘Fruit Frenzy’. Collecting...

Tweet See that owl? He’s suffering from some sort of brain damage, and he’s jumbled up all of the words he’s trying to spit out. The objective of KrissX is to help him form coherent words by rearranging the letters to create the word he’s trying to say. You are graded on things like...

Tweet Your Doodles Are Bugged is a new independently developed game from Spyn Doctor Games. Keep your eye on these indie developers, as their sense of humor seems right in line with the likes of Atlus itself: Initial plans for the new game were to create an “ultra-violent, blood-and-gore splatter...

Tweet Death By Cube, Premium Agency/Square-Enix’s dual-joystick shooter, is heading over to the Xbox Live Arcade today! Priced at 800 Microsoft Points, this omnidirectional shooter will have you killing…erm, sorry…destroying cube shaped robots with a whole arsenal of different weapons that...

Tweet Risk fans rejoice! EA is bringing the classic board game, Risk, to Xbox Live Arcade this year and we are excited. That’s why we’re bringing you this early look at the game, via screenshots. “For the past half-century, millions of RISK fans have been consumed with ruling the world,...

Tweet Developer Halfbrick announced the launch of the Raskulls website and blog today, so we thought we’d take the opportunity to show you the cuteness that is the screenshots and gameplay trailer. An action platformer with a unique art style, multiple game modes and an ironic sense of humor, Raskulls...

Tweet Can it really be referred to as a “round up” when there’s only one game? While I ponder that, you should check out Matt Hazard: Blood Bath and Beyond. Fans of Contra will fall in insta-love with the fast paced side scrolling action this game offers up. You can play alone, or with a...