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Sacred Citadel promises beat-em-up action in 2013
If one were to wonder what SouthEnd’s follow-up to 2010′s cute-as-a-button ilomilo would be, their first guess might not have been a colorful side-scrolling beat-em-up in the same vein as Golden Axe...
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Minecraft Skin Pack 2 adds many more gaming stars
A crazy amount of new skins have been announced for Minecraft‘s second skin pack. First, we have the trio from Rare’s classic N64 shooter Jet Force Gemini. Don the appearance of interstellar heroes...
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Castle Crashers hits 3 Million players
The original breakout hit for XBLA, Castle Crashers, has hit a major sales milestone. Though extrapolating sales figures from XBLA leaderboards isn’t an exact science, The Behemoth now has over 3...
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Interview: The Behemoth’s Dan Paladin
Launched in 2008, The Behemoth’s Castle Crashers went on to become one of the most popular co-op experiences on XBLA, with it just recently having crossed over the 3 million player threshold on its...
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Newsbits: October 11
Three mid-90s Sega fighters – Virtua Fighter 2, Sonic the Fighters, and Fighting Vipers – were recently rated for release on the Xbox 360 by German software regulator USK, Joystiq reports. While this...
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Xbox Live 10-year anniversary sale features Wreckateer free
Ten years ago Microsoft launched Xbox Live. Today, they are celebrating with a slew of rewards and discounts. The first one you should claim is Wreckateer, because it’s free for today and tomorrow...
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Weekly Roundup: November 17 – Minecraft, Molyneux and Marketplace mayhem
Weekly Roundup compiles all the biggest news stories, reviews and features from the week into one handy post on the weekends. Another week of Xbox Live Arcade is in the books. This one’s been all over...
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XBLA popularized independent games on console, says Castle Crashers developer
In a recent interview with Xbox 360 Magazine, John Baez from The Behemoth praised Xbox Live Arcade, saying, “I think without a doubt the indie console community would not exist as it does today if...
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Top-selling XBLA games of 2012
Now that the year 2012 has been set firmly in the books, the boys back at the lab have poured over the raw data to bring you the top arcade titles of the year. The figures, based on full versions sold,...
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XBLA sets new revenue record, doubles last year’s figures
While physical retail software sales appear to have trailed off at this stage in the Xbox 360′s life cycle, XBLA has reportedly experienced its strongest year yet in 2012. According to the Research...
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Massive XBLA sale includes Dust: An Elysian Tale and Mark of the Ninja
If you scroll to the Games page on your dashboard, you can find a panel for “Microsoft Studios Sale” that includes a plethora of big XBLA Games. Some of our favorites like Dust: An Elysian Tale and...
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BattleBlock Theater is finally out — What took so long?
It’s out now. For 1200 MSP, you can buy and start playing right away it if you’d like. Funny thing about that, though — that should be old news. And it would be if The Behemoth had followed through...
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XBLA Sales Analysis: March 2013
Gamasutra has published its XBLA sales analysis for the month of March, which notes some interesting movement that has shaken up recent trends. Storming onto the charts with a considerable performance...
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Happy Wars update enlists Castle Crashers
The fifth title update to bolster Happy Wars‘ cartoonish combatants has come ashore, bringing with it an invading force of familiar faces. Developer Toylogic Inc. in collaboration with The Behemoth,...
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July XBLA sales roundup
The numbers are in for the month of July, and it seems as though Pacific Rim: The Video Game is one of the more popular new additions to the store (of the games for which player statistics were...
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Deal of the Week: Cowboys, Crashers, Batman and Blood Dragons
This week’s deal offers up some of the very best Xbox Live Arcade has to offer, dropping names and prices on a couple of the year’s bigger titles and tossing in a few longstanding favorites for the...
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Xbox 360′s best XBLA games of all time: #5 – 1
Xbox Live Arcade began its life on Microsoft’s Xbox 360 simply enough. When eager gamers bought up Xbox 360s on launch day (November 22, 2005), they found a free copy of Hexic HD pre-loaded on their...
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Dear Xbox 360, I’ll miss you
Dear Xbox 360, Where to begin? How do you start something like this? Is there any “right” way to do it? I don’t think there is. Maybe by saying that I’m sorry? Yeah, a sincere apology feels right....
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Microsoft reveals huge list of new ID@Xbox partners
Microsoft has announced that over 200 developers are working on titles for the Xbox One via its ID@Xbox initiative and has released the names of 65 of these developers that are joining the 32...
View ArticleThe Behemoth helping other indies with funding, user experience & QA
The independent developer who brought XBLA gamers BattleBlock Theater, Alien Hominid and Castle Crashers has announced that, in addition to game development, it has two other ways it hopes will result...
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