XBLA Market Update – Old-School New Releases

Re-imaginings and re-releases are the name of the game this week at Xbox Live Arcade. Old school FPS fans have the hot-blooded violence of Quake Arena Arcade to warm them up this winter while party gamers have Bomberman Battlefest, which supports 1-4 local players and an online mode for up to 8 players. And old school arcade gamers get to enjoy this week’s most anticipated release, the six player X-Men arcade game. Also new this week is The Path of Go, a video game take on an old Asian board game.

This week also saw the release of Battlefield: Bad Company 2 on Games on Demand as well as WWII flight combat game Blazing Angles. Kinect Sports also gets six new mini games courtesy of the free Party Pack.

Other releases are as follows: 
 

Xbox Live Arcade Games

• X-Men – 800 Microsoft points (Expect a review of this from Matt Sims)
• Bomberman Battlefest – 800 Microsoft points
• Quake Arena Arcade – 1200 Microsoft points
• The Path of Go -  400 Microsoft points

Games On Demand

• Battlefield: Bad Company 2 - $39.99
• Blazing Angles - $19.99

DLC

• Kinect Sports: Party Pack - Free
• Billy Joel: The Hits (Rock Band 3) – 1600 points for the 12 song pack or 160 points for individual songs
• Endor DLC (Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II) – 80 points
• Raziel & Kain Character Pack (Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light) – 400 points