Official Xbox Live Arcade Thread

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Saerk said:
Anyone know if more expansions for Carcassonne are set to be released? The board game has quite a few more then what is offered.
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Nothing has been announced, hell, I am not even sure what is going on with the publisher of the game.
 
Flunkie said:
Good score for Banjo. I'm definitely going to buy that. The Vigilante 8 score is too high.
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I don't really get the V8 h8. I've never played the DC version, but it's going for about as much as the XBLA version now, and it doesn't even have online multiplayer. I think some of the backlash is just people taking off their rose tinted glasses. This review sums it up best:

...the rest of the game is exactly as you remember it. Big levels, tons of weapon pickups, and crazy opponents in other cars are the basic building blocks. Simple and effective? Yes. Also repetitive and dull? Yes. Despite a little stage makeup, Vigilante 8: Arcade is exactly the same game you played all those years ago in your college dorm room.
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Emergency Hospital coming to the XBLA and PC on November 26.

GAMEINVEST'S Emergency Hospital Goes Gold

Time Management Game for Xbox 360 and PC Launching this November

LISBON, Portugal - Nov. 4, 2008

GAMEINVEST, Portugal’s leading video game developer, today announced that production for the digital distribution version of Emergency Hospital is complete, and the fast-paced hospital time management game is set for release on November 26. Formerly titled Sarah’s Emergency Room, the newly renamed time management game will be published by Merscom for Xbox Live Arcade and PC download platforms. Emergency Hospital will be distributed through leading portals including RealNetworks, Big Fish Games™, and Oberon Media, with a full list included below.

"Digital distribution of our game titles is essential to GAMEINVEST's vision of creating accessible, interactive entertainment for everyone," said GAMEINVEST General Manager Mariana Cardoso. "Working with Merscom will enable us to reach worldwide audiences with our newest title, Emergency Hospital."

"From the graphics and the gameplay to the characters and the storyline, Emergency Hospital has the ingredients for success," said Lloyd Melnick, Chief Customer Officer at Merscom. “Also, we incorporated feedback from gamers to determine a game name that would really resonate with our audience.”

Emergency Hospital casts players as Sarah, an ambitious young nurse who suddenly gets a taste of thrilling emergency room action when she accepts a mysterious management position at a small hospital in Arkansas. Players control Sarah as she frantically diagnoses patients, prescribes medicine, assists in the operating room, and runs back and forth between the waiting room and examination rooms to keep track of troublesome patients. With nine difficulty levels for each of the game’s seven hospitals, and several floors of patients in each hospital, Emergency Hospital provides hours of frenzied fun for gamers of all ages.
Emergency Hospital will be distributed through leading portals, including: RealNetworks, Big Fish Games™, Oberon Media, Shockwave®, Trymedia, ArcadeTown, Boonty, Gamefools, PlayFirst®, iWin, Zapak and Reflexive® Entertainment.
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http://xboxlive.ign.com/articles/927/927518p1.html

A Kingdom for Avatars
NinjaBee game first to fullly feature Avatars.


November 6, 2008 - Microsoft and NinjaBee have announced that A Kingdom for Keflings will be the first game to feature fully playable avatars and will launch alongside the New Xbox Experience dashboard update on November 19. A Kingdfom for Keflings is a game where you play as a friendly giant helping small Keflings to build their city. The twist now is that your avatar will be that giant.

The game will feature custom animations made for the avatars and emotes, a cool addition for people who take advantage of the game's four player Xbox Live multiplayer mode. Have a look at the latest screens featuring the avatars below.

That avatar could be you.
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http://www.xbox.com/en-US/games/arcadehits/default.htm

Right, the weekly PR may not gone out yet, I really hate the new XBLA PR experience, but a poke around the Xbox.com site uncovers three new Arcade Hits, Worms, Feeding Fenzy and Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3. Given that three games are dropping in price, I suspect there is not going to be a full game released. Though there still is the Street Fighter II Pinball FX Board releasing this week.
 
First time in ages there has been no games on XBLA on a Wed morning.

SF2 table will be mine later tho!

Still need to play Portal & Vig 8 but so many great games and not enough time means they will have to wait.
 
Layout of the SFII table is nice but man, that table art. I suppose it's a throwback to the sub-par art such a table would have recieved in the 90's, but that's only amusing for so long. Should have commissioned Arnold Tsang or something.

Also, what's the deal with the light-up symbols in the front of the playfield? Looks like they were trying to do some kind of gobbeldygook riff on Japanese characters, but they more resemble alien scribblings.
 
Gowans007 said:
First time in ages there has been no games on XBLA on a Wed morning.
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I know! Its my birthday too, so I was really hoping for something great. I guess that's what happens when you have Gears of War 2 come out the Friday before. Oh well, I guess I just got approved here at GAF so that'll be my gaming related birthday present. (I guess?)
 
ESRB Watch: New Descriptor Edition

Dash of Destruction

Platform: Xbox 360

Rating: Everyone

Content descriptors: Cartoon Violence, Mild Language

Rating summary: Dash of Destruction is an action game in which players can either drive a truck around a city and make deliveries or control a dinosaur that chases a fast-moving truck carrying a load of Doritos chips. Trucks can hit buildings and other vehicles while avoiding being caught by the T-Rex. As the Dinosaur, players can destroy any obstacle in the city, but doing so will slow the T-Rex down in its pursuit of the delivery truck. When players fail to complete the required objective, the words "you suck" are displayed on screen.
 
ESRB Watch: New Descriptor Edition: Part 2

Le Tour de France 2008

Platform: Xbox 360

Rating: Everyone

Content descriptors: No Descriptors

Rating summary: In this sports simulation game, Le Tour de France 2008, players select a professional bicyclist to be part of a team that competes in the Tour de France. Players can 'attack' (accelerate beyond the pack), become the 'poursuivant' (pursuers of the leaders), or blend into the 'peloton' (pack of bicyclists) to help capitalize on each team member's strength.

R-Type Dimensions

Platform: Xbox 360

Rating: Everyone

Content descriptors: Mild Fantasy Violence

Rating summary: R-Type Dimensions is a side-scrolling action game set in outer space. Players navigate a small spaceship across different levels, shooting several targets and alien creatures along the path. Enemy objects (and the player ship) display an explosion upon being destroyed, and then quickly disappear.

Yo-Ho Kablammo!

Platform: Xbox 360

Rating: Everyone

Content descriptors: Mild Fantasy Violence

Rating summary: Yo-Ho Kablammo! is a collection of multi-player mini-games (i.e., 'party games') in which players compete in various pirate-themed contests. Mini-games include priming mines, shooting and sinking other ships, collecting treasures, and being the last man standing. Mild explosions are depicted when enemy ships are sunk and defeated.

Merv Griffin's Crosswords

Platform: Xbox 360, Wii

Rating: Everyone

Content descriptors: Mild Suggestive Themes, Tobacco Reference

Rating summary: Merv Griffin's Crosswords is a game show simulation in which players can compete against others in attempts to solve crossword puzzles. Successful answers are rewarded with "money" in varying amounts; unsuccessful answers result in deductions. Some clues include references to sexuality (e.g., "smut," "lustful," "randy," and "libido") and tobacco products (e.g., "cigar," and "cigarette").

The Incredible Machine

Platform: Windows PC, Xbox 360

Rating: Everyone

Content descriptors: No Descriptors

Rating summary: The Incredible Machine is a spatial puzzle game in which players solve challenges and brain teasers involving everyday objects on a 3-D plane. Players interact with various objects and grids to guide balls into holes or to use miscellaneous items (e.g., a car, mouse, or curved pipe) to meet the objective of each level.

UNO RUSH

Platform: Xbox 360

Rating: Everyone

Content descriptors: No Descriptors

Rating summary: Uno Rush is a multiplayer card game in which players compete using variant rules on the card game of Uno.With four overall modes of play (Standard, Partner, Elimination and House Rules) the game progresses over multiple rounds until a target score is reached.

3D Ultra™ Minigolf Adventures 2

Platform: Xbox 360, PlayStation 3

Rating: Everyone

Content descriptors: No Descriptors

Rating summary: 3D Ultra Minigolf Adventures 2 challenges the player with fantasy courses and environments. Users must play through traditional golf bunkers, as well as obstacles like bombs, spiders, and a knight in armor.

Blazing Birds

Platform: Xbox 360

Rating: Everyone

Content descriptors: No Descriptors

Rating summary: Blazing Birds is a fantasy sports game based on badminton. Players control futuristic robots that compete in matches, using high-energy power shots to score points.
 
http://www.gamerbytes.com/2008/11/ea_creating_nhl_arcade_for_xbl.php

XBLA: EA Creating NHL Arcade For XBLA?

The German Rating Board have updated today with a surprise addition from Electronic Arts - NHL Arcade.

Now we don't actually know that this will be an Xbox Live Arcade release, but EA have not revealed anything about an arcade-like Hockey game. From what we've learned this past year, silence generally means it's coming to a downloadable service.

While EA did have their NBA Street titles which did relatively well, and their NFL Street titles which did quite poorly, they never ended up doing an Arcade NHL title in the same vein.

I'm certainly hoping that whatever this game is, it's a little more like Midway's Wayne Gretzky's 3D Hockey for the Nintendo 64, which was 3 on 3 hockey and a ton of fun. A shame this doesn't appear to be a revitalizing of EA's Mutant League series either.

Source: USK - NHL Arcade
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If I have to, I'll figure out a way to get this title if it's a Japan only release.

Does Microsoft ban you for doing this, or is there a known way to get Japan-only arcade titles on US consoles? (I don't know if there will be a long delay or not)

Really, I have to side with Kuroyume, this is a Very well done 2d fighter, one of the best ever, with only very minor gameplay issues.
 
Hmmm, does someone remember the Summer Arcade contest ?

Supposedly you could win MS points playing/buying XBLA titles. Did someone get something ?
 
Shard said:
R-Type Dimensions is a side-scrolling action game set in outer space. Players navigate a small spaceship across different levels, shooting several targets and alien creatures along the path. Enemy objects (and the player ship) display an explosion upon being destroyed, and then quickly disappear.
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Wow, way to make one of the greatest games of all time sound like a root canal.
 
November 17th, 2008
New OutRun game coming, THQ developing?

If you snoop around ratings sites enough you’re bound to find something that a company does not want you to know about. Today is no different, as the Austrian Classification Board has published rating info on a new OutRun game titled OutRun Online Arcade.

As is the norm for these kind of leaks, not much info is known about the game as of yet. However, a small but more snooping reveals the developer is listed as THQ, the publisher is listed as Sega, the game is apparently being developed in Japan, and it is set to be a multiformat release.

That all we can confirm at the minute, so you’d best start guessing trying to figure it out what the game will be all about. Is there a chance it’s brand new retail game? Or maybe a XBLA/PSN remake of the 1986 arcade version with online options? Or a mobile phone game prehaps?
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http://darkzero.co.uk/game-news/new-outrun-game-coming-thq-developing/
 
Developed in Japan and by THQ? Something does not make sense here.

Hoping for a new full game Xbox 360/PS3 game, as there were rumors in the past about a new AM2 game being developed and simultaneously ported to consoles by Sumo Digital.
 
I was going to mention it, but the list of names within the rating just does not make any sense. The only way it would make it sound viable is if THQ and SEGA Australia were working on conjunction to being a distributor. And they wouldn't be if it were a downloadable title.

Is there an online ARCADE version somewhere in the world?
 
cjelly said:
It's weird how they announced avatars for UNO. Makes me wonder if UNO Rush! has been canned.
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Make sense to me. Uno is one of the pack in games with the Arcade bundle and will probably be one of the most popular "casual games." If the Avatars are their attempt to go after the Wii audience, then Uno would be as good a place as any to start.
 
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