Gamesradar- All roads lead to Xbox Live Arcade. Indie developers strive to have their games featured on it, mid-sized devs attempt to get noticed on it, and huge game publishers release smaller titles on it in between massive, high-budget releases. Over the years it has grown exponentially, with Microsoft becoming more accommodating and allowing bigger and better games to be released at a fraction of the cost they'd be at retail.
With 2012's Summer of Arcade wrapping up, we decided it was a good time to look back and choose which XBLA games over the years have been the best in hopes of helping you sift through the hundreds of titles to find the ones worth grabbing.
Microsoft is a little slow this month when it comes to announcing the Games with Gold lineup for June 2022. This has led to the lineup leaking ahead of the announcement.
This is just plain sad, they are basically charging you for online and that's it, I guess this goes hand in hand with the "tell me you only play AAA games without telling me you only play AAA games"
Both Gamepass and Gold games offerings have gone way downhill.
Super Meat Boy was a Games with Gold title back in 2016..It's leftover Meat from 2016
I actually really enjoyed Aven Colony when it was on Gamepass. I got it for free from Epic Store a few months back.
I’ll give it another go.
As we come to the end of 2021, let's take a look back as we celebrate many anniversaries that are up and coming next year.
"With so many wonderful indies released in September, catch up on the very best with our awards in 12 distinct categories. Have fun!" - A.J. Maciejewski from Video Chums
Not a bad list, but it's too modern and recent.
what about Age of Booty ?
That game was awesome. I spent probably 25+ hours just creating my own maps and fighting the computer AI.
Got to actually play against others online as well for like a month..( a few years ago ), but nobody plays it online now.
Such an underrated game.