GamesRadar - Pac-Man - Xbox Live Arcade

Video game characters zombified (Feature)

Oct 29, 2009

What better way to celebrate Halloweek than with a Photoshop frenzy of brains and bile as we zombify some of gaming's best loved characters. Be warned, however, some of these images are a tad graphic, full of weeping sores, rotting flesh and exposed rib cages, so don't go getting disturbed for life over these. Promise? Good. ...

Video game propaganda posters you've never seen before (Feature)

Oct 14, 2009

We're used to being the good guys. But did you ever stop to think about it from the enemy's point of view? Wouldn't our heroes look completely different?

Of course, just as in the real world, wartime imagery and alternative views of the enemy could undoubtedly be perpetuated with some propaganda posters… like these.

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Pac-Man - Gaming's first cut-scene (Video)

Sep 10, 2009

An arcade classic celebrating furious gluttony lives again on Xbox Live Arcade...but with all due respect to history, it's kind of boring.

Why Pac-Man was light years ahead of its time (Feature)

Sep 10, 2009

It was released way back at the start of the 80s. So surely anything worth saying about Pac-Man has been said already? Actually, we don't think so. You may have heard how Pac-Man is gaming's premiere pop culture icon and how he single-handedly pushed electronic entertainment into the big time. But what you haven't heard until now is why Pac-Man is the original Resident Evil. Or why Pac-Man is more like Grand Theft Auto than you could ever ...

If game characters used Twitter (Feature)

Jul 21, 2009

The secret lives of gaming's greats, in 140 characters or less. ...

The secretly sinister storylines of your favourite games (Feature)

Jun 12, 2009

You never knew they were so wrong... ...

65 things that look like Pac-Man (Feature)

Jun 28, 2008

Pac-Man's got to be right up there with Mario as one of the most recognisable videogame characters of all time. And because his basic design is simple, you can see him everywhere. Whenever you take a slice of pizza or cut a segment from a cake, he's there. Then the noise starts to go in your head: waka waka waka waka waka ...

Pac-Man CE Nominated for Game Developers Choice Award (News)

Feb 7, 2008

Toru Iwatani's final game is nominated for a prestigious honor.

Holiday Download Guide (Feature)

Dec 21, 2007

Dec 21, 2007 December is the month of giving and, better yet, receiving. December is the month when sugarplum visions of $400 consoles and $60 games dance through your head. And, of course, December is the month when your loved ones usually just cheap out and buy you a gift card instead. So long as that gift card is an online points card from Microsoft, Sony or Nintendo, however, you'll be alright. With so much downloadable content available for so little money, you could stretch a few ...

Pac-Man gets first update in 26 years (News)

Jun 5, 2007

Pac-Man games, from the originals to the re-releases, have had gamers chomping their way around the same selection of mazes for 26 years, but Pac-Man's 360 debut will change that. Pac-Man designers have finally decided on a change and put together new mazes for Pac-Man Championship Edition. The new 360 remake will play just like the old-school original, but it also includes "new mazes that dynamically change shape during gameplay, six new timed game modes, new soundtracks and high-definition ...

Delicious prizes offered for Pac-Man champ (News)

Apr 18, 2007

If you've been honing your Pac-Man skills recently (and you've had 20-odd years to practice) you might raise an eyebrow at Namco's newly-announced Pac-Man World Championship, which is offering the XBLA Pac-Man champ some truly scrumptious prizes. First place wins you a trip to New York to meet Pac-Man creator Toru Iwatani, 26 years of Quiznos toasted sandwiches (that'd take care of our lunch until retirement), 100,000 Microsoft points (about $1,250) and a special Pac-Man Xbox 360. Better than ...

Ms. Pac-Man munches onto Arcade (News)

Jan 9, 2007

This weeks Xbox Live Arcade offering features a trip back to a time when Big-Hair Bands, parachute pants and one-button joysticks ruled the world...

New Rally-X will be the next Live Arcade game (News)

Oct 20, 2006

New Rally-X will be the next Live Arcade game released on Xbox Live Marketplace, probably wednesday. The game first came out in 1981 using the Pac-Man hardware and was produced by Namco.

TGS: XBLA Pac-Man World Championship in '07 (News)

Sep 20, 2006

Microsoft and Toru Iwatani (he's the creator of Pac-Man) announced plans for a World Championship where the top 10 Xbox Live Arcade ranked Pac-Man players in the world will be flown to New York City to do battle. There'll be cherries and pretzels flying everywhere folks, it won't be pretty. There's not much info yet except that the contest will begin in "early 2007" and will presumably be won by someone with a lot of free time and abnormal reflexes.

Microsoft Showcases Nearly 110 Xbox 360 Games at TGS (News)

Sep 20, 2006

"Blue Dragon" Leads Holiday Lineup of Games; "Pac-Man" World Championship, Xbox 360 HD DVD Player in Japan and 1080p Support for Xbox 360 unveiled.

Pac-Man - Screens and info (News)

Aug 10, 2006

The classic video game Pac-Man was released onto the Xbox Live Arcade yesterday and to help celebrate the release of the game we've got our hands on some screenshots which we can now share with you.

The Flaw of the Xbox 360 Wireless Controller: Old School Xbox Live Arcade Game Control (News)

Aug 10, 2006

Could Pac-Man and Frogger be to old school for the new Xbox 360 wireless controller.

read on to find out why this might be so....

Pac-Man - Xbox Live Arcade (Review)

Aug 9, 2006

A true coin-op classic, Pac-Man ushered in the wave of non-shooting "cute" games in 1980 and gets credit as gaming's first pop-culture phenomenon. That's great, he's historically important - but do you still want to hang out with him? Maybe not. Pac-Man is groundbreaking but ultimately pretty boring. As you race around gobbling dots, the maze never changes; only the speed of the monsters, the length of their vulnerability and the routes they take deviate between stages. The game also suffers ...

Pac-man out in the open (News)

Aug 9, 2006

Sticking tight to the Xbox Live Arcade Wednesday schedule you can witness yet more proof today of Microsoft's new punctual approach: if you head over to your 360's Marketplace you will find Pac-Man available for download as promised.

MS: '50 Live Arcade games by year end' (News)

Jul 17, 2006

Last week Microsoft put some order into Live Arcade by announcing Xbox Live Arcade Wednesdays, a new promotion which - funnily enough - sees Live Arcade receiving new titles on Wednesdays. Things jumped into action with Frogger appearing on Arcade on July 12, and so far it's been announced that Frogger will be followed by Cloning Clyde, Galaga, Street Fighter II' Hyper Fighting and Pac-Man.

But naturally the Wednesday Live Arcade fun won't end there and according to Xbox Live Arcade group manager Greg Canessa Microsoft is targeting 30 Arcade titles "by the end of summer" and 50 "by the end of the calendar year."

Pac-Man - Xbox Live Arcade (Preview)

Jun 21, 2006

Who would have thought that a game that requires you to manipulate a small, yellow disk around a maze, devouring dots and avoiding malevolent ghosts would become the foundation of all video gaming. Strange as it may seem, Pac-Man is arguably the game that earned the videogame industry mainstream, pop culture acceptance (yes, Pong and Space Invaders were big, but Pac-Man exploded). After sinking some time into the new Xbox Live Arcade version, we remember what all the hooplah was about. One of ...

Pac-Man - Xbox Live Arcade (Screenshots)

Jun 15, 2006

Galaga and Pac-Man Chomps Achievements (News)

Jun 7, 2006

Xbox360achievements.org has posted achievements for Galaga and Pac-Man Chomps for Xbox Live Arcade. No release dates for the games yet.

Blinky GamerPic (Unlockable)

May 27, 2009

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Achievements (Unlockable)

May 27, 2009

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