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If you watched the tragicomic documentary King Of Kong, you’ll know just how important the Twin Galaxies scoreboard is. Gamers battle for high scores in games from Donkey Kong and Pac-Man to Gears of War, and competition for that top spot in Twin Galaxy’s Book of Records is fierce. Now, top scores from Dead Pixel [...]

Developer Mommy’s Best has announced the release of its high octane action title Shoot 1Up onto Xbox Live via the Indie Games section in the Marketplace.
In Shoot 1 UP you control up to 30 ships, in 2 player co-op that would make 60, as you implement a variety of strategies to choose how to utilize [...]

On Monday, Erik Brudvig wrote an editorial for IGN that declared Xbox LIVE Indie Games a failed venture by Microsoft. His reasoning? It doesn’t encourage the same kind of environment that has made applications so profitable on Apple’s and Facebook’s application platforms.
Brudvig calls on Microsoft to open its console and actively encourage the platform’s [...]

Escapist Games has announced the release of its claymation shoot ‘em up Platypus onto the Xbox Live Marketplace via the Indie Games section.
The acclaimed title brings addictive gameplay in one or two player action. Defend your home land while grabbing power-ups and other treasure along the way. Embrace the fast pace with 20 stages of [...]

Ovolo Games’ Tetris/SimCity hybrid City Rain has been released onto the Xbox Live Marketplace as an Xbox Indie. Previously only available through PC, the title has players making quick decisions to put together a sustainable city with the given structures.
The title is available now for 400 MS Points ($5) on the Xbox Live Marketplace along with a [...]

The Japanese visual novel Soredemo, Watashi wa Aishiteiru (Even So, I Love You) has returned to XBOX Live Indie Games, alas, edited. As the story goes, the novel was removed in late August because of certain visual cues that offended Microsoft Europe. At some point, a female character was pinned down with some of her [...]

Does anybody remember those tireless days we used to spend in the arcade? Sometimes playing through until the place closed, spending whatever we could scrap together for that extra 5 minutes? What an era for gaming! Looking back, most of those games weren’t even that great. Between the pinball machines, racing rigs, shooting adventures, and [...]

What’s so amazing about indie games is that stylistically, they are so much more original and creative (in terms of art, especially) than any other genre of games. Perhaps XBOX Live Indie Games is working to provide us with a wide variety just to showcase a few of the talented developers that have remained on [...]

If you’re like me, you love games that cost a dollar, or 80 Microsoft points. Although certainly not great, the safe haven that is XBOX Live Indie Games has still treated indie developers quite well. Quite obviously, Microsoft is seeking indie hits with the medium and from time to time prevails at providing us excellent [...]

Clover was a really neat Xbox Indie game. In fact, it was one of the few that I really enjoyed. Unfortunately, if you didn’t have an Xbox you were left out in the cold… until now. It appears that Clover will be brought to the PC by way of Blitz Arcade. Even better the game [...]