Summer loving, happened so fast

It’s not often we see sale figures for Xbox Live Arcade games, but Gamasutra has managed to sniff out what title came out tops in Microsoft’s Summer of Arcade promotion. Even though it was the final game to be released, Toy Soldiers: Cold War came out on top with 160,734 copies. Fruit Ninja Kinect provided …

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More bang for your Brink

If you thought last week was bad for new releases – with just three titles hitting shop shelves – then get a load of this week. There’s just one game out, and that’s the largely unknown May’s Mysteries: The Secret of Dragonville on DS. The promotional video on YouTube suggests that it has much in …

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Yars’ Revenge

Atari have revamped their retro classics in the past but usually only to the extent of a fresh lick of paint and some fancy new special effects. Yars’ Revenge – which as the loading screen reminds us, was Atari’s best selling original Atari 2600 game – is less of a revamp and more of a …

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What’s changed in a decade?

Ten years is a long time. But has much actually changed since Games Asylum was born into this world? Yes. And no. I’ve dredged the archives to illustrate. 1. Walls no barrier “Another technical marvel contained within is the RF module. With this you can play against up to three other players within a ten …

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Alien Breed 3: Descent

It makes sense that Team 17 chose to resurrect Alien Breed after telling the world that they were going download only. The original, released on Amiga, was in the charts for over a year and is still frequently mentioned in the likes of Retro Gamer magazine and on retro gaming forums. This is the third …

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