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We’ve had difficult 2D platformer games based around everything from crazy motorcycle stunts to exploding lab experiments to hunks of meat jumping around spinning sawblades. Even with all that, I don’t think anybody could have predicted a 19th century novel as the inspiration for one of these games.
Dungeon Defenders is a fantastic title, and not just for lovers of tower defense-style games. There’s a great mix of twitch, arcade-like gameplay, and hardcore strategy, not to mention that gamers who like to customize their characters and style of play will find this worthy of their time and money.
From Dust released on the Xbox Live Arcade last week as the second entry in this year’s Xbox Summer of Arcade promotion, and it scratches an itch that has been largely neglected for quite a while.
Film critic Roger Ebert once said that video games never could be true art, a statement he since recanted. Many games have proven Ebert wrong, the most recent of which being The UnderGarden, Atari’s downloadable exploration game that released last week.
This week the folks at ZEN are back in action with Pinball FX 2, released as part of Microsoft’s Game Feast promotion on the Xbox Live Arcade. I had a chance to play through the game this week and found a lot of new features that promote heavily addictive fun.
Super Meat Boy is a punishingly hard 2D platformer, and it’s also one of the most fun and replayable games on the Xbox Live Arcade.
Strategy games are all about resource management. Mine crystals and cut down forests with nary a repercussion in the name of advancing your troops, technology and territory. W!Games’s Greed Corp is looking to destroy the ground the genre stands on — literally.
The Call of Duty franchise comes to the Xbox Live Arcade this week with today’s release of Call of Duty Classic. The original COD game from Infinity Ward is available now for 1200 Microsoft Points ($15).
An arcade-style version of the most popular football video game in the world comes to the Xbox Live Arcade this week in the form of Madden NFL Arcade, available today for 1200 Microsoft Points ($15).
Two new games are on the Xbox Live Arcade this week, both available today. Diner Dash will cost you 800 Microsoft Points ($10), while Gyromancer will set you back 1200 Points ($15). Here’s the rundown on each, straight from Microsoft.
