Category Archives: XBLA

New ‘LEGO Batman 2: DC Super Heroes’ Open World Trailer and Screen Shots

Posted on May 24, 2012 by John Carle

Since their inception, the LEGO licensed games have followed a pretty standard formula. Players start off in a central hub where they can select missions to enter, check their progress and buy more characters to play as. After years of … Continue reading →

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Game Review: ‘Minecraft: XBox 360 Edition’ for XBLA

Posted on May 16, 2012 by John Carle

To say Minecraft: XBox 360 Edition is already a success is an understatement. The game literally became profitable within the first hour of sales and boasted 400,000 users in its first 24 hours, breaking all XBLA records including the one … Continue reading →

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Game Review: ‘Awesomenauts’ for XBLA

Posted on May 11, 2012 by John Carle

Whether you call it MOBA or DOTA, the genre that best fits Awesomenauts didn’t exist even a decade ago. Spawning from the Defense of the Ancients mod for Warcraft III, MOBA games are traditionally controlled as a isometric RTS style … Continue reading →

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Game Review: ‘The Walking Dead – Episode 1 – A New Day’ for XBLA

Posted on May 9, 2012 by John Carle

Forget about it being AMC’s top rated series. Forget about Volume 1 being the number one selling graphic novel of April 2012 despite it being published more than eight years ago and seven other volumes filling up the top 10. … Continue reading →

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Gaming Piracy Is Not ALWAYS a Bad Thing . . . But USUALLY Is

Posted on April 25, 2012 by John Carle

Let’s be clear about one thing right from the start. This article is by no means making a blanket statement that all piracy is okay. Piracy in the broadest sense is theft and is wrong. But with most things, it’s … Continue reading →

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Game Review: ‘Trials Evolution’ for XBLA

Posted on April 25, 2012 by John Carle

The original Trials HD came to the XBox 360 in 2009 in what was considered one of the best Summer of Arcade promotions the XBox has done alongside titles like ‘Splosion Man and Shadow Complex. The time trial based off … Continue reading →

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PAX East 2012 XTRA Hands-On: Trials Evolution Multiplayer

Posted on April 19, 2012 by Cortney Zamm

I have a confession to make- I never gave Trials HD a shot. Partly because my Xbox 360 gave me a red ring of death, and partly because of this YouTube video. But while walking by Microsoft’s booth at PAX … Continue reading →

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You Can Vote For The ‘Madden NFL 13’ Cover Athlete Right Now

Posted on April 19, 2012 by Jonathan Weilbaecher

We don’t get a lot of chance to cover sports here on The Flickcast, it just doesn’t fit in with the world of geek culture. Well, there is one place where geek meets sports, and it is the annual spectacle … Continue reading →