While the Xbox 360 still carries a wide range of games that parents might find objectionable for their small children to play the console is making definite steps towards being a family-friendly system. The more intuitive interface that accompanied the NXE was quite obviously an attempt to make households more likely to use the console [...]

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Microsoft may be trying to go mainstream like their Nintendo counterparts, but hardcore gamers haven’t been forgotten, it seems, as Treasure CEO Masato Maegawa has revealed that the company had requested an Xbox Live Arcade port of the developer’s Saturn game Radiant Silvergun.
“Microsoft actually asked us if we could put it out,” said Maegawa. “We’re [...]

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With 2008 wrapped up, Microsoft has provided lists of the past year’s most popular Xbox 360, Xbox Live Arcade and original Xbox games. As Major Nelson points out, the original Xbox and Xbox 360 lists were compiled by calculating the amount of online Xbox Live users playing each game; the Xbox Live Arcade list was [...]

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Hoping to lure gamers to Xbox Live Gold, Microsoft has made free the multiplayer modes of eight Xbox Live Arcade titles. Only in December, the following games’ will support free multiplayer: A Kingdom for Keflings, Aegis Wing, Bomberman Live, Hardwood Hearts, Hardwood Spades, UNO, Small Arms and Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix.
The deal [...]

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With the new Xbox Experience dashboard dropping next month, Microsoft has taken steps away from its previous announcement that it would delist under-performing games from Xbox Live Arcade.
In an interview to IGN, Microsoft VP John Schappert said that "the information about XBLA de-listing had been taken out of context and [...]

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Although gamers want to play through the legendary Nintendo 64 shooter GoldenEye 007 again, licensing issues and other problems have kept Rare from bringing the game to either Xbox Live Arcade or the Wii Shop Channel.
“The ball’s not in anybody at Rare’s court really,” said Rare senior engineer Nick Burton. “It’s squarely in the [...]

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Although Microsoft has previously denied a $15 price for Braid, the company sent out word today that the game will indeed be priced at the aforementioned price point, costing 1200 Microsoft points when it is released as an Xbox Live Arcade title tomorrow.
Braid is a time-shifting puzzle game from Jonathan Blow and Number Nine. [...]

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