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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[1] (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 {{[[[Sturgeon's Law]] albeit for a reason}}], 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
- BloodRayne: Betrayal
- Breath of Death VII
- 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[2]
- 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)
- Dragon's Lair
- Duke Nukem 3D
- 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
- 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[3]
- Rez HD
- Rock of Ages
- The Secret of Monkey Island: 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[4]
- Golden Axe — Golden Axe[5], Golden Axe 2, and Golden Axe 3
- Streets of Rage — Streets of Rage 1, 2[6], 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
- Spelunky (TBA)
- Stacking
- Strania the Stella Machina
- Street Fighter II
- Super Meat Boy
- Super Time Force (TBA)
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles:
- 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
- ↑ (formally known as Community Games)
- ↑ (Despite being available outside Japan via Games on Demand, the game itself however is still in Japanese)
- ↑ (The HD remakes of Resident Evil 4 and Code: Veronica X were released as retail games in Japan; They were brought overseas as downloadable titles in other region)
- ↑ (in original Japanese and English)
- ↑ (the original Golden Axe has been avialable to Xbox Live Arcade this prior collection)
- ↑ (Streets of Rage 2 has been released prior to collection)