Shawn Saris, Contributor - Trials HD is a simple game. No games released post-Summer of Arcade 2013 were considered eligible.) ( Editor’s Note: Voting was conducted in early September. And don’t forget to head to the comments to let us know how much you love (or hate) our picks. Check back with us throughout the week as we run down five of Xbox Live Arcade’s top games every night. It wasn’t easy, but our staff has sorted through all of the best XBLA releases over the years and picked the ones that we feel are the true standout stars of the platform. So what better time than now to count down the best XBLA games to ever grace the Xbox 360? It’s going down with the figurative (and literal) Xbox 360 boat. While Microsoft’s Xbox line will continue to be home to myriad low-cost downloadable video games, the XBLA moniker will not make the transition to Xbox One. Today, we’re approximately one month away from the launch of the Xbox One, which will signal the end of XBLA as we have come to know it these past eight years. Bizarre’s side project paved the way for the enormous variety of retro revivals, HD remakes, original indie projects, major studio releases, free-to-play games and more that have come to call XBLA home in the years since. Bizarre’s Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved both gave birth to the twin-stick shooter craze and demanded gamers take Xbox Live Arcade, which started in disc form back on the original Xbox, seriously as a digital games platform. Of course, it was another launch title that secured the platform’s success.
BEST INDIE GAMES XBOX 360 FREE
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 hard drives. Rusty, the main character, will face the mysterious labyrinth castle that emerged from a gate that suddenly appeared 50 years ago.Xbox Live Arcade began its life on Microsoft’s Xbox 360 simply enough. The team selected for the Industry-Academia-Government Collaboration is:Įternal Labyrinth ( Shinden Games at Kobe Institute of Computing)Īn exhilarating roguelike game where the player must conquer the labyrinth castle with skills, magic and items. A fusion of J-HIPHOP tracks and Japanese sci-fi portrayed with 2D pixel art. A top-down, fast-paced action game with high difficulty. The player spends an unsettling year as “Ningen-san,” a candidate chosen to be a god, while nurturing relationships with the Seven Lucky Gods.Īn action game created by HIPHOP artists. The player who reaches it first will be the winner.Ī Japanese pixel art adventure game in which the story branches out in many ways depending on the lies that can be chosen from the options available. Ten players will look for the key somewhere on the map to escape from the gate. In a world with a culture of ‘cloud sea hunting’ where people dive into the cloud sea below to hunt, the player will face strange creatures that live there.Ī jailbreak battle royale game. A touching love story unfolds in a multidimensional universe.ģD action- adventure game set in Calme, a town on top of a cliff. With the story completable in 10 minutes minimum and no game over, this is fully-packed action entertainment for busy working adults.
The teams selected for the 2nd Edition are as follows:
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