Feature: Xbox Live Arcade Games

Xbox Live Arcade on the Xbox 360 has proven to be a huge success with both retro arcade titles and indie developed games. Are they some of the best games on the system? We think so.

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• Xbox Live Arcade Review: Luxor 2

  Fend off murderous colored balls in ancient Egypt.

  Review by Matt Paprocki — on Apr 19, 2007

• Xbox Live Arcade Review: Boom Boom Rocket

  Hit buttons and watch all sorts of purty colors show on your TV. It's not just for the easily amused only either.

  Review by Matt Paprocki — on Apr 14, 2007

• Xbox Live Arcade Review: Bejeweled 2

  A review one year in the making.

  Review by Matt Paprocki — on Apr 14, 2007

• Xbox Live Arcade Review: Castlevania - Symphony of the Night

  Easily one of the best games of the modern era receives a perfect port to the 360.

  Review by Matt Paprocki — on Apr 01, 2007

• Xbox Live Arcade Review: Worms HD

  I have worms, and am perfectly okay with admitting that to people I've never met.

  Review by Matt Paprocki — on Mar 20, 2007

• Xbox Live Arcade Review: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Arcade

  A dream-like release, complete with full online play for the full set of four turtles.

  Review by Matt Paprocki — on Mar 18, 2007

• Xbox Live Arcade Review: Alien Hominid HD

  Where do you go when you’re tired of Metal Slug and you realize Konami will never, ever, release another true Contra?

  Review by Jason Westhaver — on Mar 02, 2007

• Xbox Live Arcade Review: New Rally-X

  Wait, wasn't this free on the 360 already?

  Review by Matt Paprocki — on Feb 14, 2007

• Xbox Live Arcade Review: Ms. Pac-Man

  The Xbox Live Arcade game two whole people were looking for.

  Review by Matt Paprocki — on Feb 14, 2007

• Xbox Live Arcade Review: Paperboy

  Since when are sewer grates deadly?

  Review by Matt Paprocki — on Feb 14, 2007

• Xbox Live Arcade Review: Root Beer Tapper

  When you were drunk back in the '80s, this was fun. Sober in the new millennium, well, not so much.

  Review by Matt Paprocki — on Feb 14, 2007

• Xbox Live Arcade Review: Heavy Weapon - Atomic Tank

  Or why when the Xbox Live Arcade works, it's the best thing in the industry.

  Review by Matt Paprocki — on Jan 22, 2007

• Xbox Live Arcade Review: Small Arms

  The Xbox Live Arcade continues to be the home of mediocraty.

  Review by Jason Westhaver — on Dec 13, 2006

• Xbox Live Arcade Review: Defender

  Anyone else getting tired of the same old, same old?

  Review by Jason Westhaver — on Dec 03, 2006

• Xbox Live Arcade Review: Contra

  UP, UP, DOWN, DOWN, LEFT, RIGHT, LEFT, RIGHT, and you know the rest.

  Review by Jason Westhaver — on Nov 15, 2006

• Xbox Live Arcade Review: Contra

  The real version you might not ever known existed.

  Review by Matt Paprocki — on Nov 12, 2006

• Xbox Live Arcade Review: Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3

  Blood, guts, a lot of K's in place of C's, and stiff fighting engine. It's definitely Mortal Kombat.

  Review by Matt Paprocki — on Oct 26, 2006

• Xbox Live Arcade Review: Lumines Live!

  Oh Mizuguchi-san, what have you done?

  Review by Jason Westhaver — on Oct 18, 2006

• Xbox Live Arcade Review: Dig Dug

  Another Wednesday, another XBLA retro title, another less then stellar release.

  Review by Jason Westhaver — on Oct 12, 2006

• Xbox Live Arcade Review: DOOM

  Finally Live gets the original deathmatch.

  Review by Jason Westhaver — on Sep 29, 2006