Xbox Live Arcade



Xbox Live Aracde, or XBLA for short, launched November of 2004 for the original Xbox and just one year after Steam, and was the first digital distribution channel for a video game console (if the Sega Channel and Broadcast Satellaview don't count).

The service's main titles seem to be Casual Games, but other games (such as updated re-releases) also exist. For the most part, the service is split into four main categories:


 * Xbox Live Arcade Games (the main focus of the channel)
 * Game Add-Ons
 * Games on Demand (Downloadable Xbox and Xbox 360 games, ranging in quality from Grand Theft Auto IV to G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra)
 * Xbox Live Indie Games (Exactly What It Says on the Tin; The first attempt by any major console publisher to accept homebrew games. It takes $99 a year to publish games, and rules are often draconian ], but it's a start)

Compare with Playstation Network, Wii Ware, and DSiWare.

Notable Xbox Live Arcade titles include:

 * 1942: Joint Strike
 * Aegis Wing (Freeware)
 * Alien Hominid HD
 * Altered Beast
 * Apples to Apples
 * Banjo-Kazooie and Banjo-Tooie
 * Bastion
 * Battlefield 1943
 * Beyond Good and Evil HD
 * Bionic Commando: Rearmed and Bionic Commando: Rearmed 2
 * Bit.Trip Presents Runner2: Future Legend of Rhythm Alien
 * Blade Kitten
 * Braid
 * Beat Hazard
 * Bloodforge
 * Blood Rayne: Betrayal
 * Breath of Death VII
 * Cthulhu Saves the World
 * Call of Duty Classic
 * Castle Crashers
 * Castlevania: Harmony of Despair
 * Castlevania: Symphony of the Night
 * Chime
 * Clash of Heroes
 * Comic Jumper the Adventures of Captain Smiley
 * Costume Quest
 * Crazy Taxi
 * Crimson Alliance (Allegedly Free Game)
 * Crimson Dragon (Spiritual Successor to Panzer Dragoon due Summer 2012)
 * Daytona USA
 * Deadliest Warrior: The Game
 * Deadliest Warrior: Legends
 * Dead Pixels
 * Dead Space Ignition
 * Death Smiles II X
 * Defense Grid the Awakening
 * The Dishwasher: Dead Samurai
 * The Dishwasher: Vampire Smile
 * DLC Quest
 * Doom and Doom II
 * Doom and Destiny
 * Double Dragon Neon (TBA)
 * Dragons Lair
 * Duke Nukem 3D
 * Duke Nukem Manhattan Project
 * Dungeon Fighter LIVE (TBA)
 * Dust: An Elysian Tail (due Summer 2012 as part of the "Summer of Arcade" titles)
 * Earthworm Jim HD
 * Ecco the Dolphin
 * Every Extend Extra Extreme
 * Fancy Pants Adventures
 * Fez
 * From Dust
 * Garden Gnome Carnage
 * Gatling Gears
 * Gotham City Impostors
 * Guardian Heroes (Updated Rerelease in 2011)
 * Gunstar Heroes
 * Guwange
 * Half Minute Hero: Super Mega Neo Climax
 * Hard Corps: Uprising
 * Hell Yeah Wrath Of The Dead Rabbit
 * Hydro Thunder Hurricane
 * I Am Alive
 * Ikaruga
 * Ilomilo
 * I Made a Game With Zombies In It
 * Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet
 * Iron Brigade
 * Islands Of Wakfu
 * Jet Set Radio (Updated Rerelease scheduled for Summer 2012)
 * A Kingdom For Keflings
 * A World Of Keflings
 * Limbo
 * Magic the Gathering: Duels of the Planeswalkers
 * Marvel vs. Capcom 2
 * The Maw
 * Mega Man 9
 * Mega Man 10
 * Monday Night Combat
 * Nexiuz
 * Nin 2 Jump
 * Outland
 * Pac-Man Championship Edition
 * Peggle
 * Perfect Dark
 * Portal: Still Alive
 * Prismatic Solid
 * Protect Me Knight
 * Puzzle Quest
 * Quake Arena Arcade
 * Radiant Silvergun (Updated Rerelease in 2011)
 * Raskulls
 * RayStorm HD
 * Renegade Ops
 * Resident Evil 4 HD
 * Resident Evil: Code Veronica X HD
 * Rez HD
 * Rock of Ages
 * The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition
 * Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge: Special Edition
 * The Sega Vintage Collection compilations:
 * Alex Kidd & Co. -- Alex Kidd in Miracle World, Revenge of the Shinobi, and Super Hang-on
 * Monster World -- Wonder Boy in Monster World, Wonder Boy in Monster Land, and Monster World IV
 * Golden Axe -- Golden Axe, Golden Axe 2, and Golden Axe 3
 * Streets of Rage -- Streets of Rage 1, 2, and 3
 * Sequence
 * Shadow Complex
 * Skullgirls
 * Sonic the Hedgehog series:
 * Sonic the Hedgehog (1991)
 * Sonic the Hedgehog 2
 * Sonic the Hedgehog 3
 * Sonic and Knuckles
 * Sonic Adventure and the DX: Director's Cut Downloadable Content
 * Sonic CD (Updated Rerelease)
 * Sonic the Hedgehog 4: Episode 1
 * Sonic the Hedgehog 4: Episode 2
 * Soulcaster and Soulcaster II
 * South Park: Let's Go Tower Defense Play
 * South Park: Tenorman's Revenge
 * Space Channel 5: Part 2
 * Splosion Man
 * Ms. 'Splosion Man
 * Spelunky (TBA)
 * Stacking
 * Strania the Stella Machina
 * Street Fighter II
 * Super Meat Boy
 * Super Time Force (TBA)
 * Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles:
 * Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles the Arcade Game
 * Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Turtles in Time Re-Shelled
 * Torchlight
 * Torch Light 2 (TBA)
 * Toy Soldiers
 * Toy Soldiers: Cold War
 * Triggerheart Exelica
 * Trouble Witches NEO! Episode 1 Daughters of Amalgam
 * Trouble Witches Episode 2 ~With Decendents of Ancient Dragon the Souless~ (TBA)
 * Uno
 * Vanguard Princess (TBA)
 * Virtua Fighter 5: Final Showndown
 * Virtual On: Oratario Tangram M.S.B.S. Ver.5.66
 * The Walking Dead: Episode 1
 * Warhammer 40000 Kill Team
 * Warp
 * Yars Revenge (Reboot released in 2011)
 * Zeno Clash: Ultimate Edition
 * Zuma