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Sure most of you have seen, but some of the big news for Microsoft at GDC this year was around allowing XNA Game Studio games to be shared via the community on Xbox Live. You can find the official release here , and should also make a point of reading...
Was sent this interesting article highlighting ten businesses that will likely be extinct a decade from now. Interesting, but what really caught my eye was this snippet: Coin-operated arcades With Nintendo Wii, casual gaming online and the Xbox 360, the...
I wrote earlier about Ubisoft's remake of the classic Prince of Persia by Jordan Mechner. Downloaded it last night, and it's fantastic, especially if you remember playing the original for many misspent hours of your youth. I just came across a great video...
Ubisoft recently announced that they're redoing Jordan Mechner's original Prince of Persia game and releasing it on Live Arcade with updated visuals and puzzles. I can't tell you how much I loved playing the Apple II and PC versions of this game when...
Was pretty excited to see this post on Evil Avatar pointing to Jeff Minter's blog discussing the topic. For those of you who don't know, Jeff created Tempest for the Atari Jaguar - probably the sole reason to own the system (and the reason I still have...
Was really excited to see the reaction to yesterday's announcement at Leipzig about some classic boardgames coming to Live Arcade. To quote a Gamespot article : The announced games include the civilization-building Settlers of Catan, the tile-based city...
It's been interesting watching the growth of casual games, and the pointing to that growth (and extensions such as Yahoo Games, Live Arcade, and others) as being the potential savior of a gaming industry struggling with rising costs of development and...
Some of you may recall Peter Moore's comment earlier this year when he described what he saw in the future of game regarding Electronic Software Distribution, or ESD for short. To quote: "Years from now, the concept of driving to the store to buy a plastic...
Title pretty much says it all, but wanted to point you to an interview John posted on Gamerscoreblog.com about Cloning Clyde (one of the new Xbox Live Arcade games). I mentioned it last week, but it's definitely one of my favorites of the recent arcade...
MGS is looking for participants under the age of 18, particularly 6-12 year olds (I assume with parental permission). No details on what games, but it's not too hard to figure out if you think about announced yet unreleased titles coming out of MGS. ...
Gotta give full props to Joystiq for picking up on this, but it's pretty cool: "Gastronaut, the studio behind the upcoming XBLA game, Small Arms, have created the first viral achievement. Four of Gastronaut's employees will start being the only ones with...
Not "news" per-se, but wanted to make sure folks had seen Major Nelson's announcement about the "Summer of Arcade". The arcade team will be releasing a new arcade title each Wednesday, starting today with Frogger for 400 points. My personal favorite of...