Filed under: News, Xbox Live Arcade, Xbox Live Marketplace, Deals and Bargains

For those who decided to stay home and far, far away from the retailers and the shopping mobs in search of Black Friday deals, you can still participate in the Xbox Live Marketplace Black Friday shopping.

Available through the weekend (to U.S. Gold Live subscribers) [...]

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Filed under: Xbox Live Arcade, X3F TV, X3F Features
After a week with no XBLA games, we were ready to sink our teeth into something new. This week, we not only get A Kingdom for Keflings, but it also happens to be the first Xbox 360 game that lets players use their Avatar as a playable [...]

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Filed under: News, Xbox Live Arcade

Either intentionally or unintentionally, Capcom announced (using a screenshot, no less) that November 26th is the release date for their upcoming XBLA release Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix.

Yes sir, in their press release regarding the new NXE Street Fighter “branded destination experience”, they included a screenshot that spills [...]

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Filed under: News, Xbox Live Arcade, Xbox Live Marketplace

Newly available for purchase off the Xbox Live Marketplace is A Kingdom for Keflings, a brand new Xbox Live Arcade game from the folks over at Ninja Bee.

At 800 Microsoft points, A Kingdom of Keflings is a city building sim where you play a giant who takes [...]

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Filed under: Virtual Console, Wii Warm Up
Okay, hypothetical question time. I recently acquired an Xbox 360 to keep my Wii and DS company, and have spent most of my time playing games on Xbox Live Arcade. My chief obsession in this short period has been Treasure shooter Ikaruga, which I previously enjoyed on the GameCube. [...]

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Seems like we’ve been about two things lately: zombies, and nudity. Well here’s more. The makers of the popular Zombies!!! board game have announced that a video game version is under development for release on Steam, PSN and XBLA sometime in 2009. Twilight Creations, the game’s maker, has reached a deal with Big Rooster to [...]

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It’s time to get the shotgun out of the cupboard, as Twilight Creations announced plans to bring its popular tile-based board game, Zombies!!!, to Xbox Live Arcade and the PlayStation Network as well as Steam in 2009. The company describes these as the ‘initial’ platforms for the project, and we fully expect Zombies!!! to scuffle [...]

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Filed under: X3F Features

We’ve gone kind of Fable II crazy at X3F this week. We’ve got some special Fable II features, including a look at the game’s environments as well as its enemies. We also dedicated this week’s episode of the Xbox 360 Fancast to the game. Oh, and we’re also giving away six copies [...]

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Filed under: Features, Microsoft Xbox 360

We’ve gone kind of Fable II crazy at X3F this week. We’ve got some special Fable II features, including a look at the game’s environments as well as its enemies. We also dedicated this week’s episode of the Xbox 360 Fancast to the game. Oh, and we’re also giving away [...]

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Filed under: Features, Microsoft Xbox 360

We’ve gone kind of Fable II crazy at X3F this week. We’ve got some special Fable II features, including a look at the game’s environments as well as its enemies. We also dedicated this week’s episode of the Xbox 360 Fancast to the game. Oh, and we’re also giving away [...]

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Filed under: Features, Microsoft Xbox 360

We’ve gone kind of Fable II crazy at X3F this week. We’ve got some special Fable II features, including a look at the game’s environments as well as its enemies. We also dedicated this week’s episode of the Xbox 360 Fancast to the game. Oh, and we’re also giving away [...]

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After the vague tease that Super Street Fighter 2 Turbo HD Remix will be releasing “very soon,” we have some slightly less vague new details from Kotaku. An interview with Capcom’s Seth Killian gives unconfirmed word on several pieces of info eager Street Fighter fans have been curious about.
Asked about a November release, [...]

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The zombie-related news just keeps on coming, as developer Big Rooster, LLC has announced a partnership with Twilight Creations, Inc. to bring Zombies!!! to Xbox Live Arcade, PlayStation Network, and Steam (DS and Wii versions are also being considered). An adaptation of Twilight’s wildly successful board game of the same name, Zombies!!! is scheduled to [...]

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Filed under: Mac, PC, Microsoft Xbox 360

The second episode of Penny Arcade Adventure: On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness, is coming next Wednesday, October 29, for Xbox Live Arcade, Windows, Mac and Linux. According to the press release, the PC versions will be available via Greenhouse. As previously revealed, the episode will cost $15 for [...]

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When Portal: Still Alive dropped on Xbox LIVE Arcade yesterday, we noticed that the file size for the game was clocking in close to 700MB. This confused us as we were under the impression that Microsoft had put a limit of 350MB on downloadable games for XBLA.
This is not the case. We reached out to [...]

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When Portal: Still Alive dropped on Xbox LIVE Arcade yesterday, we noticed that the file size for the game was clocking in close to 700MB. This confused us as we were under the impression that Microsoft had put a limit of 350MB on downloadable games for XBLA.
This is not the case. We reached out to [...]

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Valve’s re-release of the original Portal, dubbed Portal: Still Alive, was released for Xbox Live Arcade today. It’s Portal, but with 14 smart new levels tacked on, and it’ll set you back 1200 Microsoft Points.
Potentially more interesting than the release of a baker’s dozen plus one set of maps, is Portal: Still Alive’s size, which [...]

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Valve’s re-release of the original Portal, dubbed Portal: Still Alive, was released for Xbox Live Arcade today. It’s Portal, but with 14 smart new levels tacked on, and it’ll set you back 1200 Microsoft Points.
Potentially more interesting than the release of a baker’s dozen plus one set of maps, is Portal: Still Alive’s size, which [...]

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Valve’s re-release of the original Portal, dubbed Portal: Still Alive, was released for Xbox Live Arcade today. It’s Portal, but with 14 smart new levels tacked on, and it’ll set you back 1200 Microsoft Points.
Potentially more interesting than the release of a baker’s dozen plus one set of maps, is Portal: Still Alive’s size, which [...]

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It’s Penny Arcade Adventures news week! Yesterday we learned that On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness Episode One would be hitting the PlayStation 3 this week, and now Hothead announces that the Linux, Mac, PC, and Xbox Live Arcade versions of Episode 2 will be coming out next week! On Wednesday, October 29th, fans [...]

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It’s Penny Arcade Adventures news week! Yesterday we learned that On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness Episode One would be hitting the PlayStation 3 this week, and now Hothead announces that the Linux, Mac, PC, and Xbox Live Arcade versions of Episode 2 will be coming out next week! On Wednesday, October 29th, fans [...]

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It’s Penny Arcade Adventures news week! Yesterday we learned that On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness Episode One would be hitting the PlayStation 3 this week, and now Hothead announces that the Linux, Mac, PC, and Xbox Live Arcade versions of Episode 2 will be coming out next week! On Wednesday, October 29th, fans [...]

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Valve’s re-release of the original Portal, dubbed Portal: Still Alive, was released for Xbox Live Arcade today. It’s Portal, but with 14 smart new levels tacked on, and it’ll set you back 1200 Microsoft Points.
Potentially more interesting than the release of a baker’s dozen plus one set of maps, is Portal: Still Alive’s size, which [...]

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It’s Penny Arcade Adventures news week! Yesterday we learned that On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness Episode One would be hitting the PlayStation 3 this week, and now Hothead announces that the Linux, Mac, PC, and Xbox Live Arcade versions of Episode 2 will be coming out next week! On Wednesday, October 29th, fans [...]

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Filed under: Mac, PC, Microsoft Xbox 360

The second episode of Penny Arcade Adventure: On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness, is coming next Wednesday, October 29, for Xbox Live Arcade, Windows, Mac and Linux. According to the press release, the PC versions will be available via Greenhouse. As previously revealed, the episode will cost $15 for [...]

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The brightest gaming gems of 2007 are resurfacing this week, with BioShock on PlayStation 3 and now Portal: Still Alive on Xbox Live Arcade. True, the latter migration’s perhaps less necessary, due to Portal’s previous inclusion in The Orange Box (already available for Xbox 360), but Still Alive offers a fresh, affordable entry point to [...]

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The long wait is over as Hothead Games announces that Penny Arcade Adventures: On The Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness, Episode One is coming to the PlayStation Network this Thursday, October 23rd. The PlayStation version of the game, previously released on Xbox Live Arcade and PC, is priced slightly cheaper than the other versions at [...]

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Filed under: Microsoft Xbox 360, Action, Adventure, RPGs, Video

If you’ve spent a few hours building up a mass of gold in Fable 2 Pub Games for Xbox Live Arcade or earned in-game swag through the game’s website, our compadres at X3F have created a video tutorial guiding you through the steps of getting the gold [...]

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Filed under: Sony PlayStation 3, Microsoft Xbox 360, Fighting, Online
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As if sensing our growing impatience, its size nearly eclipsing that of Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix’s elaborate title, Capcom has sent out an e-mail assuring — nay, promising — that the graphically remade brawler would arrive on Xbox Live Arcade and [...]

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PlayStation 3 owners will get a taste of old school Persian platforming when Prince of Persia Classic lands on the North American PlayStation Store this Thursday, October 23rd. It’s seeing release to, we presume, hype us for the totally new, not-at-all-classic Prince of Persia, reimagined for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, but confusingly named [...]

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