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XBLArcade merges with ILoveXBLA
Two of our favorite sites, XBLArcade and ILoveXBLA, have decided to join forces. Readers of either site (or checkers of our blogroll) will know that these two sites are great sources of information about Xbox Live Arcade. Now you'll get twice the news on half the sites! ILoveXBLA has been consolidated into XBLArcade, so you'll be redirected there if you decide to visit ILoveXBLA. If you dig Xbox Live Arcade, you would do well to check it out (and be sure to send us a tip if you find anything good).Congrats on the merger guys, and good luck.
Atari games on XBLA, holiday titles confirmed
Alongside the press release for Contra hitting XBLA, Microsoft sent another press release outlining a slew of Atari classics heading to Live Arcade next year. The six Atari games to be released are: Centipede/Millipede Battlezone Asteroids/Asteroids Deluxe Missile Command Tempest Warlords All of the games will feature both original and "evolved" versions. The evolved versions, similar to Konami's offerings, will feature revamped graphics and sound. All games will have leaderboards and achievements, and multiplayer games will have Live support. Surprisingly, many of these games are receiving some pretty impressive new features, including Live Vision support for Battlezone and Warlords. It looks like many of the games will receive three dimensional upgrades instead of simply using high definition sprites, too. Finally, and this is not a joke, Centipede evolved has motion blur. Motion. Blur. In Centipede. If that's not worth $5, we don't know what is.Also worth mentioning, the press release confirmed that the following titles should hit the Arcade before the end of 2006: Small Arms Assault Heroes Novadrome (?) Heavy Weapon Defender It should be noted that this isn't necessarily all the titles we'll be seeing by year's end (we're looking at you RoboBlitz). Full press release after the break.
