'Splosion Man blasts to top of XBLA chart

Price cuts work!

News by Fred Dutton Contributor

Updated on 1 Dec 2010

'Splosion Man has rocketed to the top of the Xbox Live Arcade chart 18 nearly 18 months after it was first released.

Twisted Pixel's cracking platformer originally went in at two when it was first released way back in July 2009, so it's taken its time climbing to the number one spot.

It had its price cut from 800 Points to just 160 Points in last week's Xbox Live Black Friday sale, which we suppose might have had something to do with the surge.

This week's top 20, posted on Major Nelson's blog, saw strong showings for Turtles in Time Reshelled, Trials HD and Portal: Still Alive, all of which were also part of last week's sale.

Here's the full rundown:

'Splosion Man
Turtles in Time Re-Shelled
Hasbro Family Game Night
Trials HD
Portal: Still Alive
Crazy Taxi
Monkey Island 2 Special Edition: LeChuck's Revenge
Pac-Man Championship Edition DX
Greed Corp
Pinball FX 2
Madden NFL Arcade
Serious Sam HD: The Second Encounter
The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition
Zombie Apocalypse
Mega Man 10
Magic: The Gathering
Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's Decade Duels
Dead Rising 2: Case Zero
Puzzle Quest 2
Scott Pilgrim vs. The World

For those of you keeping track of these things, Major Nelson also updated us on who was king of the Xbox Live Indie Games castle. Last week's top 10 panned out as follows: