"Puzzle Quest" Casts A Spell Over Xbox Live

Puzzle Quest: Challenge of the Warlords keeps getting better as it evolves from PC screen, to handheld screen, and finally to glorious HD on the Xbox 360. While the DS and PSP versions received decent scores, the new 360 iteration with added online multiplayer modes has gotten stellar scores from both IGN and Gamespot. With the Wii version costing $30 and PS2 version at $20 due Nov. 13, the real Puzzle Quest gem is the $15 HD version available on XBLA.

Gamespot (90/100) - "Online play is a great addition, even if it's limited to straightforward ranked and player matches. It's still fun to be able to take the character you've been building up in the single-player campaign against another live player, and the ability to adjust the time limit for each player's turn can make the action much more frantic and challenging. ... Despite coming out on XBLA a good half a year after the original DS and PSP releases, Puzzle Quest still feels incredibly fresh and vital, and the changes made in between make it even easier to recommend."

IGN (90/100) - "The minor glitches that were apparent in the DS version are nowhere to be found here. It's also a bargain on XBLA, priced at half the amount of the portable versions. If you haven't played Puzzle Quest, yet, this is a definite download. And if you have it's likely you'll fall in love with its seemingly endless set of quests to be accomplished, different classes to try, and new spells to master all over again. Throw in achievements, higher resolution graphics, and online multiplayer -- Puzzle Quest is a marriage that will last."