Game: Hydro Thunder Hurricane Format: Xbox Live Arcade Developer: Vector Unit Publisher: Microsoft Games Studios Microsoft’s Summer of Arcade rolls on and the second title in the annual game series is upon us. Hydro Thunder Hurricane is the sequel to the popular arcade title released in 1999. This powerboat racer seems to emit fun from [...]
Tags: arcade, Hydro Thunder, Hydro Thunder Hurricane, Microsoft, Powerboat, Powerboats, Race, Racer, summer of arcade, Tom Wallis, Tom01255, Track, Vector Unit, Water, xbox, XBox 360
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Mon, July 26 2010 » Reviews, Xbox 360 » 5 Comments
Game: Limbo Format: Xbox Live Arcade Developer: PlayDead Studios Publisher: Microsoft Games Studios To paraphrase a recent conversation with our video editor Alan Parrish ‘When you look out your window and see a topless fat man you know that it is summer time’. As well as topless fat men, there is one other event that lets [...]
Tags: 'splosion man, Black and White, braid, Limbo, Luke Mears, Microsoft, platforming, PlayDead, puzzles, Shadow Complex, summer of arcade, Trials HD, turtles
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Fri, July 23 2010 » PS3, Reviews, Xbox 360 » 1 Comment
Game: Marvel Versus Capcom 2 Format: XBox 360 Developer: Backbone Publisher: Capcom Hello and welcome to the long overdue, next part of “Summer of Arcade” review series where this time around it is I (Crofterz) giving my view on “Marvel versus Capcom 2”. I have a somewhat strange love, hate relationship with beat-em ups. Whilst [...]
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Wed, October 28 2009 » Reviews, Xbox 360 » 6 Comments
Game: Trials HD Format: XBox 360 Developer: RedLynx Publisher: Microsoft Hello, Crofterz here again with another installment to the series of reviews on the “Summer of Arcade” titles. And before I start let me just say that “Trials HD” isn’t a game that everyone will love, not by a long shot. In fact if you [...]
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Tue, October 27 2009 » Reviews, Xbox 360 » 2 Comments
Last week, Newb Review.com began a short mini-series of articles reviewing the titles released in the recent Summer of Arcade promotion on XBox Live. No I welcome you to the next article in that ongoing series. Today Luke “Mightyles” Mears continues by reviewing Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Turtles in Time Reshelled.
Tags: Mightyles, Review, summer of arcade, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, TMNT, Turtles in Time Reshelled, xbla, xbox live, Xbox360
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Wed, September 23 2009 » Reviews, Xbox 360 » 3 Comments