My, how things have changed since the original Space Invaders debuted more than thirty years ago!  Looking back, the game seems so simple, it's hard to believe it was a national obsession.  Move your ship beneath aliens, push the fire button, repeat, that's all there is to it.  When Space Invaders Extreme was released on Xbox Live Arcade, I knew I had to get it for nothing more than nostalgic purposes.  I was curious, too, at how my kids would react to it.  In this era of open world gameplay, realistic 3D graphics, and cinematic storytelling, would young gamers get bored too quickly? The first test was to see if the kids would be interested when I was playing.  After school one evening, we all went our separate ways: one kid to feed the dog, the other to his room to play with his toys.  I fired up the Xbox 360 and started up Space Invaders Extreme.  The walls started pounding in time with the deep bass of the EXTREME techno beat.  I quickly turned it down before things started falling off the walls.  (Anyone else notice thatSIE is louder than most other games?)  Even just a few seconds of the loud music was enough to get my youngest son running to investigate.  He immediately perched on the couch, entranced by the hypnotic action.

We rather enjoyed Space Invaders Extreme on the Xbox Live Arcade, especially the four player cooperative mode.  It's oddly satisfying blasting those 8-bit baddies into pixelated pieces to the thumping soundtrack of techno.  

The 8-Bit aliens return in all their HD glory, complete with thumping techno soundtrack and four player cooperative mode.  We blast off and take a look at the latest iteration of the Space Invaders franchise for the Xbox Live.

Our friends over at Colony of Gamers are running a kickass contest for Space Invaders Extreme, which releases today.  

After a few disappointing and expensive weeks in a row on Xbox Live Arcade, Microsoft is coming back in a big way for co-op fans.  We have not one, not two, but three cooperative titles hitting the Xbox Live Arcade this Wednesday, May 6th.  All three titles will cost you 800 each.

Space Invaders Extreme hits the Xbox Live Arcade this week, and with it a brand new cooperative gameplay mode. We sat down with Backbone Entertainment Senior Artist Arvin Bautista, a 10 year veteran of the industry with co-op titles like 1942: Joint Strike and Wolf of the Battlefield: Commando 3 under his belt, to talk about Space Invaders Extreme and the brand new cooperative modes.

If you were lucky enough to get your hands on Space Invaders Extreme for the PSP or Nintendo DS you know the game is a worthy remake of the classic title.  Much like the great Pac-Man Championship Edition, Space Invaders Extreme takes a classic game and adds some modern flair to it without removing what made the original so great.

Taito has released a handful of new screenshots of the four player co-op Xbox Live Arcade game, Space Invaders Extreme.  While the screens only show off the game's single player mode, you can get an idea of just how slick looking the game is, compared to it's portable little brother on the PSP and DS.

We're not sure if the 4 player co-op mode is what makes this game extreme, but we do know we are extremely excited about this classic remake.  If you played the game on the PSP or DS then you know this game is a great remix of Space Invaders with a splash of a game like Lumines.  Pulsating visuals with a thumping beat make blasting pixelated aliens an absolute joy.  Add in giant boss battles and that's Space Invaders Extreme.