North American Xbox LIVE members can now download the all-new NFL Blitz via the Xbox LIVE Arcade for 1200 Microsoft Points. Content: NFL Blitz Price: 1200 Microsoft Points Availability: North America Dash Text: The big hits and stellar plays are back with all-new NFL Blitz. Featuring a combination of the arcade-style gameplay that made the original a hit and the deep, immersive game modes of today, NFL Blitz is recharged with an energetic, football gaming experience.

It’s good to know that Tekken Tag Tournament 2 will continue the Tekken series’ tradition of being completely and uncontrollably bonkers . Winged wrestlers? Fancy-dress kangaroos?

The big hits and stellar plays are coming back in HD with the all-new NFL Blitz, launching exclusively via digital download January 4. For the first time in franchise history, Blitz hits the gridiron in high definition featuring a combination of the arcade-style gameplay that made the original a hit and the deep, immersive game modes of today, ” NFL Blitz ” is recharged with an energetic, football gaming experience. Whether battling your rival in a 7-on-7 grudge match, fighting your way through a season of the Blitz Gauntlet, or taking over the online Battle Boards in Blitz Battles, Every Game Is a Two-Minute Drill with NFL Blitz! Will you be grabbing NFL Blitz when it hits

Let’s imagine, for a moment, that we’re all 10 years old again. (If you’re actually 10 years old, good work.) Can you think of anything even remotely as cool as an arcade game about cars that transform into robots, where the arcade cabinet transforms too ? Damn right you can’t, because it’s the best idea any living human being has ever had.

Indie developers are the starving artists of the video-game world, often brilliant and innovative, but also misunderstood, underfunded and more prone to writing free-form poetry on their LiveJournals. We at Joystiq believe no one deserves to starve, and many indie developers are entitled to a fridge full of tasty, fulfilling media coverage, right here. This week, Mandy and Blake Lowry of Black Hive Media channel the charm of some classic arcade games stashed in their attic and give them a modern, portable twist with Arcade Jumper

We’re kind of suckers for artsy platformers, so when Beefy Media’s Adam Boyes took to Giant Bomb’s livestream this evening with a debut trailer for Might & Delight’s latest offering, “Pid,” and the game was a gorgeous hand drawn platformer, we were pretty excited to tell you all about it. In Pid , you’ll control what appears to be a little boy in a colorful and mysterious world of platforms and robots — like Limbo and Machinarium had a digital baby, if you will.

“But wait,” we hear you say from the other side of the Internet. “Isn’t the American arcade scene dead? Haven’t coin-op establishments gone the way of the dodo?