Being sick sucks. That means Live Arcade Review missed out on some heavy duty coverage. Bummer. Luckily, the community does the work for us!

• EGM’s March issue confirms Castlevania: Symphony of the Night for release this month, as in March then? I’m not sure. EGM have been wrong before though…
• Operate your Xbox 360 with the Zune Remote. Yay? Nah…
• Apparently there where some issues with the Achievement Rewards program. More here.
• Sierra Online will release a Battlestar Galactica Live Arcade game this fall. Fans of the serious should scream with joy. I for one thought Serenity sucked… Whatever that has to do with anything.
• Catan will hit Live Arcade Q1, according to IGN who spoke with Big Huge Games.
• Bizarre Creations have a post on Boom Boom Rocket up, with screenshots and info. Check it out!
• Galactrix announced! (Via XBLAddict)

Oh, and don’t forget that Paperboy is out now. A review is in the works.

It would seem that we’re not getting a Live Arcade release today, which is sad of course. Actually, it kind of sucks, to me Microsofts is neglecting their Live Arcade game commitment. There are so many indie developers out there with great ideas, so it shouldn’t be hard to make sure that there’s new quality content each week. Why not just let up some smaller games for 400 points or something?

Anyway, I think Microsoft sense that they need to provide value each Wednesday, so they’re trying to get out of this fix by listing ten upcoming Live Arcade games in a press release.

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Josh Howard of Carbonated Games, the first party Microsoft developer that gave us Uno, likes the 50 MB cap on Live Arcade games. This is revealed in an interview with Next Generation, in response to the recent rumors of a raised size limit. continue reading…

GameSpot reports that Castlevania: Symphony of the Night will break the Live Arcade limit size of 50 MB. This means that neither full version nor trial will fit on a memory unit.

“Castlevania: Symphony of the Night is one of the most popular games of all time, and you can [bet] that you’ll see similar high-quality games come to Xbox Live Arcade in the future,” Canessa said.

The 50 MB limit is partly there to ensure that the Live Arcade games will fit on the memory units offered by Microsoft. However, it’s more than likely that we’ll see games way bigger in the future, especially if PSone games are going to hit the Live Arcade. And they will, Castlevania: Symphony of the Night is one.

PSone vampire platform classic Castlevania: Symphony of the Night from Konami is heading for Xbox Live Arcade. That’s old news. What’s new, however, is that it was playable at CES and videos have reached the net. continue reading…