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Castlevania: Harmony of Despair whips up Xbox LIVE Arcade

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"And on the third week of Summer of Arcade, Konami brings us Castlevania: Harmony of Despair."

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Queasy5059d ago

I'm not as excited about this as I was for Hydro Thunder Hurricane last week for some reason. But I still want to check out how well the co-op works.

CrAppleton5059d ago

I've never been a huge fan of Castlevania games.. doubt I'll be getting this one either.

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OG Xbox Live Replacement 'Insignia' Continues To Grow With 11 New Supported Games

Online multiplayer is back for 11 more games thanks to Insignia's XBL 1.0 replacement service running on Original Xbox consoles and the Xemu emulator on PC. Multiplayer, voice chat, leaderboards, etc. have been a monthly addition for many games from Xbox's past library thank to the team at Insignia.live! The 11 new games are now playable online once again after 13+ years.

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XiNatsuDragnel454d ago

Yes yes now bring x360 xbox live then we're golden for life.

Asplundh452d ago

?? Xbox 360 servers are still online, they haven't been taken down yet.

XiNatsuDragnel452d ago

Nah they will be tho look at rscs3 they have psn made in there emulator why not xenia bro?

Blashted452d ago

Service still in beta form, sign up/player counts here: https://insignia.live/

slayereddy452d ago (Edited 452d ago )

Booo!! I was hoping that was Rainbow Six: Black Arrow...Boo!! again. I thought this coming to Xbox. I don't even read it I was so excited.

autobotdan986d ago

Castlevania and Resident Evil are always good

Neonridr986d ago

the old stuff here vastly outshines the newer stuff, lol

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NeoGamer232986d ago

How about scraping Games with Gold and reducing both XB Live Gold and XB GamePass Ultimate by $5 per month.

I don't mind the games with gold, but in reality it has been a long time since I really cared about what came on games with gold.

John_McClane985d ago

Getting rid of the gold paywall entirely works for me.

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NeoGamer232985d ago

@John_McClane
I believe in paying for services you use. You look at the console vendors and they run a network that tracks your gamer profile, does your games saves, and provides an environment for multi-player. The servers and infrastructure to do this is expensive and has to be paid for somehow.

I like a direct payment method rather then hiding the costs behind something else. No matter what they have to find a way to make money off the investments they make. No company does stuff for free. Now with PSNow and XB GamePass I think both should just drop the free games (that aren't really free because they allocate Gold and Plus money to buy those games) I think it is time the the free games are dropped and the subscriptions drop in price as well.

Kurt Russell985d ago

I loved Aaero. I bought it on PS4 a few years ago and got hooked (some great tunes in there). I will happily double dip and try and grab a few achievements blitzing through the earlier difficulties again.

darthv72986d ago

I havent played Code Veronica since the Dreamcast. I assume this is that but in HD?

Yui_Suzumiya986d ago

Yeah, it had an HD remaster during the PS3 / 360 era

babadivad986d ago

Same. That game was long AF!!

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franwex986d ago

Damn, I just bought code name Veronica. Lol. I was eyeballing the Castlevania game due to the recent Tokyo Gameshow Sale, but I guess I’ll just get it here instead.

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autobotdan986d ago

Resident Evil and Castlevania crossover Video game and Anime series confirmed!

VersusDMC986d ago

Nope. That would make no sense...but there is going to be a Devil May Cry and Castlevania anime crossover.

https://www.ign.com/article...

So anything is possible.

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The Enduring Legacy of Xbox Live 1.0

Sure, there was online gaming back in the day but the modern age of online video gaming began almost twenty years ago with Xbox Live 1.0.

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Magog1040d ago

The origin of paid online.

PrimeVinister1040d ago

Lol it definitely deserves its mention

franwex1040d ago (Edited 1040d ago )

Haha. Yep. To be fair, I feel that it was actually worth it because it kept a good minimum standard. There was horrible lag back in the day and a lot of cheating/hacking. More so than today.

PrimeVinister1040d ago (Edited 1040d ago )

That is arguable seeing as how good similar PC services are these days. The lack of cheaters on console is the closed ecosystem rather than extra effort by MS/Sony

XbladeTeddy1040d ago

"To be fair, I feel that it was actually worth it because it kept a good minimum standard. There was horrible lag back in the day and a lot of cheating/hacking. More so than today."

The horrible lag back then was due to peole not having the speeds needed to run games, peoples internet speeds were all over the place. Hacking is as bad today, if not worse than back then. People now have access to sophisticated hacking programmes that were nowhere near as prevalent as they are today. Anticheat software was also available way before Xbox Live and the paid online services became a thing.

I gamed online a lot from 1999 onwards and had great times playing without having issues with people cheating and no one had to pay for an online subscription.

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