Category: Xbox 360
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Review: Dante’s Inferno (Microsoft Xbox 360)
Dante’s Inferno Publisher: Visceral Games Developer: EA Games Genre: Action Release Date: 02/09/2010 English professors are probably shaking their heads right now. After decades of difficulty in getting students to read the classics, along comes Beowulf and Dante’s Inferno in a few short years. Suddenly those giant, dusty tomes are flashy movies and video games.…
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Review: Blood Bowl (Microsoft Xbox 360)
Blood Bowl Developer: Games Workshop Publisher: Southpeak Games Genre: Strategy Sports Release Date: 01/26/2010 Blood Bowl is a spin-off of the tabletop miniatures game Warhammer. In this game, you’ll be pitting teams comprised of elves, humans, orcs, etc. against each other in a battle for (American) football supremacy. The idea sounds interesting, however the simple…
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Xbox LIVE Wrap-Up for February 10th, 2010
First off, let me begin by apologizing for the tardy nature of this piece. D.J. Tatsujin, the normal writer of this article, had a personal situation that had to be handled immediately. Therefore, I’m pitching in relief this week, and trying to fit this in with an already loaded schedule. So to steal a line…
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Interview with Access Games on Deadly Premonition (Microsoft Xbox 360)
With so many major players in the horror game market, between Capcom’s top-tier Resident Evil series, Konami’s respectable-but-dwindling Silent Hill franchise, and EA’s up-and-coming Dead Space series, among others, it can be hard for new developers to get their foot in the door with genre fans. Siren: Blood Curse and Condemned 2: Bloodshot were solid…
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Review: Physics Lab (360 Indies)
Physics Lab Developer: Danthekilla Publisher: Microsoft Indie Games Genre: Physics Simulator Release Date: 1/20/2010 Price: 240 Microsoft Points/$3 The Indies service on XBox Live is hard to gauge. Some of it’s games are flat-out steals, such as the $1 Robotron-inspired I MAED A GAM3 W1TH Z0MB1ES!!!1 and the $4 College Lacrosse 2010: The Video Game,…
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Review: Vandal Hearts: Flames of Judgment (Microsoft Xbox 360)
Vandal Hearts: Flames of Judgment Genre: RPG Developer: Hijinx Studios, LLC Publisher: Konami Release Date: 01/20/2010 RPGs and I have a secret love affair. I can tolerate more time spent with a good RPG and a bottle of rum than I can with most of my relationships. That either says I love video games too…
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Hands-On Preview: Risen (Microsoft Xbox 360)
Let’s get this out of the way up front: I had mixed emotions about Risen before I went out to preview the game last week. The game, at first glance, looked to be another third person action RPG on a console flush with them. Reviews of the European Xbox 360 release had been unkind to…
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Review: KrissX (Microsoft Xbox 360)
KrissX Publisher: Konami Developer: Regolith Games Ltd. Genre: Puzzle/Casual Release Date: 01/27/2010 Last Wednesday, Konami sprung a new casual title on us, bringing KrissX to Xbox LIVE Arcade. Amid a couple of weeks that brought us heavy-hitting games such as Matt Hazard, Death by Cube, and Serious Sam, KrissX takes a step back and brings…
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Review: Death by Cube (Microsoft Xbox 360)
Death by Cube Publisher: Square Enix Developer: Premium Agency Genre: Shooter Release Date: 01/20/2010 Original IP’s from Square Enix are becoming somewhat of a rarity these days. What’s even more scarce is to see anything published by them that’s not an RPG. I can’t even remember the last game I played with their logo on…
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Review: Four Player Tangerine Fight (Microsoft Xbox 360)
Four Player Tangerine Fight Publisher: Dirge Game Studio Developer:Dirge Game Studio Genre: Multiplayer Platformer Release Date:01/26/2010 A while back, we reviewed a little game called Herman. Featuring the story of a cubicle drone seeking to escape, Herman was a fun indie title with some quirky character design and interesting elements. Billing itself as “the best…
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Review: Mass Effect 2 (Microsoft Xbox 360)
Mass Effect 2 Genre: Action RPG Developer: Bioware Publisher: Electronic Arts Release Date: 01/26/10 The original Mass Effect was something of an experimental game for Bioware. At that point, the company had primarily been known for more traditional RPG products, like Neverwinter Nights and Knights of the Old Republic. Their first major foray into action…
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Review: Slide Colors (Microsoft Xbox 360)
Slide Colors Developer: AngelMarcos Publisher: Microsoft Genre: Puzzle Release Date 1/8/2010 Finding a good indie game in the over 700+ indie arcade games available on XBox Live can be challenge in itself. After all, these games are made by smaller developers, which means smaller budgets or less development time. The great thing is that gamers…
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Review: Matt Hazard: Blood Bath & Beyond (Microsoft Xbox 360)
Matt Hazard: Blood Bath & Beyond Publisher: D3Publisher Developer: Vicious Cycle Genre: 2D Run-and-Gun Release Date: 1/6/2010 It was hard for me to look at Eat Lead: The Return of Matt Hazard when it released in early 2009. Vicious Cycle took a concept that I was shocked no one had come up with before –…
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Review: Divinity II: Ego Draconis (Microsoft Xbox 360)
Divinity II: Ego Draconis Developer: Larian Publisher: cdv Software Entertainment USA Genre: RPG Release Date: 01/05/2010 In my opinion, 2009 was a great year opinion for RPGs with games like Borderlands and Dragon Age still consuming a lot of my time now into the new year. Recently Divinity II: Ego Draconis (Latin for “I, of…
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Review: Bayonetta (Microsoft Xbox 360)
Bayonetta Genre: Action Developer: Platinum Games Publisher: Sega Release Date: 01/05/2010
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Review: Borderlands: Mad Moxxi’s Underdome Riot (Microsoft Xbox 360)
After toppling the pack in Diehard GameFAN’s field of best first-person shooter for 2009, Borderlands has received yet another DLC update to prove there truly is no rest for the wicked. After opening The Vault and foiling Dr. Ned on an island full of zombies, Xbox 360 owners got to close 2009 out with another…
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Review: Qix++ (Microsoft Xbox 360)
Qix++ Developer: Taito Publisher: Taito Genre: Arcade Release Date: 12/9/2009
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Review: Darksiders (Microsoft Xbox 360)
Darksiders Publisher: THQ Developer: Vigil Games Genre: Action Release Date: 01/05/2010 Well, Holiday 2009 is over and done with, and we can get back to playing all the games that we didn’t have time to fully explore last fall, right? Well…. it turns out you shouldn’t be so hasty. 2010 has a lot of potentially…
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Review: Twin Blades (360/iPhone)
Twin Blades Publisher: Press Play Studio Developer: Press Play Studio Genre: Platform Release Date: 12/29/2009
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Review: Herman (Microsoft Xbox 360)
Game Name: Herman Publisher: Dirge Game Studio Developer: Dirge Game Studio Genre: Platformer Release Date: 12/11/2009 There has been a ton of office related humor in media today. We can probably thank Office Space for really capitalizing on it and kicking it off, although Dilbert surely helped as well. Well, Dirge Game Studio is tossing…