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I find it a bigger insult that we are being fed something like Interpol when a year ago we saw the likes of Metal Slug 3 being released.

Anyway, more news:

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/capcom-fills-in-the-first-6-months-of-its-release-calendar


Capcom has announced a few definitive dates for early 2009 releases, putting seven titles on the horological map for the start of the year.

Alien-based sheep-herding puzzler Flock! is coming in February, and will hit PC, PSN and XBLA all at once.
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BenjaminBirdie said:
Errr...no.
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You get presented with a screen and a list of objects to find in it which have been hidden in the artwork with varying degrees of obfuscation, so a spider will range from a giant tarantula to a wood-coloured leg mostly hidden behind a clown or something like that. Find all the objects in the time limit to move on to the next level.

Virtually every PC casual game that isn't a Diner Dash clone, a Match 3 puzzle or Zuma is a hidden object game. Most try to vary the formula a little with puzzles and mini games (like the Mystery Case Files series) but I think I played a little bit of the PC version of Interpol and it was fairly vanilla.

There's a screenshot from the PC version of Interpol here (I don't know what Gamezebo's linking policy is) which should explain the above a bit more clearly. There are some spot-the-difference mini game interludes that I'd forgotten about it seems.
 
Rlan said:
DOOM however, still going strong. A completely missed opportunity to release the sequel as well as Quake and Quake II. Now that ID Software are now with EA it will be interesting to see if they ever make it out.
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I'm confused, does EA mean those games are more or less likely to come to XBLA?
 
cjelly said:
How many EA games on XBLA?

Boom Boom Rocket... and...? :-/
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Wing Commander.

Besides: id Software "really" isn't with EA, sort of. id became one of the many EA Partners once they announced that Electronic Arts would publish RAGE, so I doubt they'll have any say in id's future Xbox Live Arcade endeavours (if they actually want to release another XBLA port).
 
MicVlaD said:
Wing Commander.

Besides: id Software "really" isn't with EA, sort of. id became one of the many EA Partners once they announced that Electronic Arts would publish RAGE, so I doubt they'll have any say in id's future Xbox Live Arcade endeavours (if they actually want to release another XBLA port).
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True, but Activision did publish the first DOOM on XBLA. EA are doing 3 on 3 Hockey Arcade but don't particularly seem to be into it smaller downloadable titles. Hell, we haven't seen anything from them on the Virtual Console - SimCity was Nintendo. They've done a very few PSOne titles on the PSN but that's about it.

I want a new Desert Strike, or at least a Compilation with all three on XBLA for 800MSP :)

Quake Arena Arcade was coming but got canned in favor of Quake Live in web browsers.
 
http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3172151

Hasbro Developing Several Board Games, XBLA Channel
Line-up includes Scrabble, Boggle, Battleship, and more.
By Steve Watts, 01/06/2009
Hasbro Hasbro announced today that it is working with Electronic Arts to develop several new board games for various platforms, along with a branded Hasbro game channel for Xbox Live Arcade. The popular board game Scrabble will come first, due out for the DS and PSP this March. The handheld games will include three modes (Classic, Speed, and Scrabble Slam), six difficulty settings, and a Training mode for less experienced wordsmiths. Hasbro and EA have already suggested the price will probably stand at $29.99.

Xbox Live Arcade is getting its own line-up of board games from the company, including Scrabble, Boggle, Battleship, Yahtzee, Connect Four, Sorry!, and Sorry! Sliders coming in spring. In addition, Xbox Live Arcade will be receiving its own "Hasbro Family Game Night channel" to bring the collection together in one place, with new games updated in the space.

The full line-up will be shown off this weekend at the Consumer Electronics Show. Since Electronic Arts acquired the Hasbro license last year, they've been capitalizing on popular classic board games. It's apparently paid off, since we've seen big sales numbers for the casual titles. It makes sense to keep pressing the advantage of nostalgic fun, and the focus on Xbox Live Arcade may help Microsoft finally catch some more casual consumers.
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I'm actually really interested to see this "space" on XBL that will house all the games in the Hasbro collection. Sounds really neat and I hope more companies do it.
 
AnEternalEnigma said:
Where the hell is Peggle? Valve said it was submitted for certification on September 24 and was going to be out by the end of 2008.
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I don't see the point of waiting for it to hit XBLA. Is there any computer that can't run Peggle? It was even $5 on Steam last week.
 
AnEternalEnigma said:
Where the hell is Peggle? Valve said it was submitted for certification on September 24 and was going to be out by the end of 2008.
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What the hell would Valve have to do with it? It's PopCap's game.
 
SapientWolf said:
I don't see the point of waiting for it to hit XBLA. Is there any computer that can't run Peggle? It was even $5 on Steam last week.
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The most important feature of an XBLA Peggle would be achievements.

I'd love a "Hit 100,000 pegs" achievement. I'd grind that every night... :(
 
Interpol is a pretty weak Object-Hunt game.

The best are by SpinTop Games (Published by PopCap, and include the Mystery P.I series and Amazing Adventure series) or Big Fish Games (such as Mstery Case Files - Millionheir recently released on DS).

The resolution of the image was poor, and looked horrendous with the maginfying glass, the vocabulary seems pretty easy and the Xbox 360 controller obviously doesn't work well for a PnC.

I'd avoid it, and just get Mystery Case Files: Millionheir on DS (or a PC one if its too expensive, they're pretty shallow and undemanding).
 
McBacon said:
Interpol is a pretty weak Object-Hunt game.

The best are by SpinTop Games (Published by PopCap, and include the Mystery P.I series and Amazing Adventure series) or Big Fish Games (such as Mstery Case Files - Millionheir recently released on DS).

The resolution of the image was poor, and looked horrendous with the maginfying glass, the vocabulary seems pretty easy and the Xbox 360 controller obviously doesn't work well for a PnC.

I'd avoid it, and just get Mystery Case Files: Millionheir on DS (or a PC one if its too expensive, they're pretty shallow and undemanding).
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I came here to post pretty much this. Interpol sucks ass and I quite like object-finding games.

The worst thing Interpol does is try to be "clever." Like I was just in a sports locker room level and one of the words was "club." There were about 10 different types of clubs in there -- all wrong because they're not named simply "club." The club in question was the playing card kind. I mean.... Yeah, that's grammatically correct and all, but it's just fucking stupid.

Another one I had was an asian level where you're supposed to find asian fans. The same level had a plain old plastic-and-aluminum rotating fan as well. This, apparently, it not a "fan." Come on, that's not even remotely clever!

And, yeah, the resolution is pathetic. As you move further in the game, the images actually get more sparse (wasting space on, for example, having a beautiful skyline backdrop with 0 objects in it), but the levels get harder because it's just a blur of browns and greys. And why waste so damn much screen real estate on the UI?!

How does MS keep doing this? Picking one of these games is clearly not a bad idea to attract casuals considering how popular the genre is on the casual PC scene, but why did they have to pick the shitty one? Why couldn't they have hooked up with the Amazing Adventures crew instead? This always happens when MS picks up new genres...

Edit: Got to a new level now... One object is "3 Maps." Yeah, there's two pretty clear subway maps and a big city map as well, so it was pretty easy... But there's also a folded map in the foreground that clearly says LONDON MAP in bold and caps. However, this is apparently not a map!
 
http://xboxlive.ign.com/articles/942/942732p1.html?RSSwhen2009-01-07_174600&RSSid=942732

CES 2009: Doritos Dash of Destruction a Hit
People love free stuff.
by Erik Brudvig

January 7, 2009 - Doritos: Dash of Destruction was downloaded nearly 1 million times from the Xbox Live Arcade in the second half of December. That's right; a free advergame nearly achieved platinum status in just a few weeks. This is according to Microsoft executive Mark Kroese, General Manager of Microsoft's Entertainment and Devices Advertising Business Group at CES as reported by Crispy Gamer.
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Trax416 said:
Still wait for a really fun arcade style kart racing game that doesn't suck .
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So they're buggies and not technically karts, but why didn't you buy GripShift yet? It's exactly what you want and offers even more on top of that.
 
skybastos said:
Personaly I am still waiting for something like this
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That is essentially Micro Machines.

I'd love to see Micro Machines and Cannon Fodder on XBLA, but unfortunately Codemasters got their fingers burnt with Sensible Soccer so I doubt we'll ever see another XBLA game from them.

Stumpokapow said:
I played the demo and my impressions pretty much parallel yours. Very disappointed.
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Interpol wouldn't be quite so bad if the damn scene took up the whole screen.
Shard said:
New Flock! Trailer

http://xbox360.ign.com/dor/objects/...t-1-untitled/videos/flock_trailer_010809.html
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This game looks absolutely amazing. I love the artstyle. Not sold on the gameplay just yet... :P
 
New Achievement List: R-Type Dimensions

http://www.xbox360achievements.org/game/r-type/achievements/

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There are 12 achievements with a total of 200 points.

Brave Pilot 10
Complete stage 1 of R-Type in 1P Classic

Earth Savior 30
Complete R-Type

Scarred Hero 30
Complete R-Type II

Bye-bye Bydo! 15
Kill 30,000 enemies

Hidden Treasure 15
Find and destroy the 5 hidden spores on stage 4 of R-Type

Combo Master 20
Kill at least 10 enemies with a single shot

Beam Me Up! 20
Using only full beam shots and without dying, complete stage 1 of R-Type or R-Type II in 1P Classic

Dare Devil 20
Using rapid-fire and no power-ups, complete stages 1 & 2 of R-Type in a single game of 1P Classic

Power Hungry 10
Collect 500 power-ups

Wall of Fire 10
Destroy every enemy and object in stages 1 & 2 of R-Type during co-op play

Bydo Headhunter 10
Kill one enemy of every kind in R-Type and R-Type II

Reviver 10
Collectively tally 20 revivals in a single game of Classic Co-op
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cjelly said:
That is essentially Micro Machines.

I'd love to see Micro Machines and Cannon Fodder on XBLA, but unfortunately Codemasters got their fingers burnt with Sensible Soccer so I doubt we'll ever see another XBLA game from them.
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How did they get their fingers burnt? The whole delay and later launch misfire? If so, that sucks. I can't even get the game because it didn't come out in Japan but maybe they'll rectify that now they're getting around to publishing here.

Did the Micro Machines license end up back with the codies then? I know it went to Gremlin/Infogrames for a while, but the original MD games were essential party games whenever I had my friends round.
 
Holy shit Yosumin Live. Oh jesus.

PS: Does anyone know what the deal with those Dream Car Challenge points is? Do the points themselves expire? I haven't used them yet, but if they do I need to use them asap.
 
Jonnyram said:
How did they get their fingers burnt? The whole delay and later launch misfire? If so, that sucks. I can't even get the game because it didn't come out in Japan but maybe they'll rectify that now they're getting around to publishing here.

Did the Micro Machines license end up back with the codies then? I know it went to Gremlin/Infogrames for a while, but the original MD games were essential party games whenever I had my friends round.
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Nah, they hyped SWOS up and marketed the hell out of it here in the UK. Big print and online marketing campaign, but the game sold like shit. Leaderboards are barren and the game still has quite a few bugs. Codemasters said pretty soon after the game came out that they wouldn't be releasing a patch or anything else for the game.

They also had the in-game ads, as well, so I think they really thought it was going to be a big game.

I actually think it had the potential to do as well as something like Worms, there is certainly a huge following for the game, but for some reason it just didn't stick.


But, yeah, all the signs post-release indicate Codemasters have no further plans for digital download stuff, but I'd love them to change their minds.
 
The problem with SWOS was that it was balls-to-the-wall hard. I maybe won 2 games of what I played. It was incredibly difficult.

The interface was pretty awful too on how you chose a team. Not easy at all.

I'd love a new micro machines because I certainly wouldn't buy a new retail one.
 
D3Publisher Announces Texas Cheat ‘Em


D3PUBLISHER REVEALS AN ACE UP THEIR SLEEVE WITH NEW GAME TEXAS CHEAT ‘EM FROM DEVELOPER WIDELOAD GAMES

LOS ANGELES – January 8, 2009 – There’s No Limit to the fast-paced, frenetic action poker players will enjoy with D3Publisher’s newly announced game, Texas Cheat ‘Em, from fan favorite developer Wideload Games. Texas Cheat ‘Em is a new take on the classic Texas Hold ‘Em rules, turning an average online poker table upside down by layering party games and other gambling minigames on top of the basic rules, and allowing players to cheat to win! Gamers of all levels can hoodwink their opponents in Texas Cheat ‘Em; novice competitors who craft good cheating strategies by using x-ray vision, pre-cognition, chip stealing, card swapping and more can defeat more veteran card players. The game is confirmed for Xbox LIVE® Arcade for Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system from Microsoft and PlayStation®Store for PLAYSTATION®3 computer entertainment system for Spring 2009 and Windows PC at a later date.

“Alex Seropian and the team at Wideload know how to make great games, and their trademark quirky sense of humor abounds in Texas Cheat ‘Em,” said Pete Andrew, vice president of product development, D3Publisher. “We feel confident that the comedic tone, party atmosphere and interactivity of Texas Cheat ‘Em are tailor-made for today’s casual online gaming audience.”

“We upped the ante on traditional online poker and set Texas Cheat ‘Em in a decidedly irreverent world where players can do what they’ve always wanted to do – cheat!” said Scott Corley, Director of Wideload Shorts. “It’s a hilarious online card playing experience that gets even more fun as players become cheating masters.”

Cheating is FUNdamental in Texas Cheat ‘Em! Cheat attacks are earned by players through more than a dozen minigames like Roulette, Slot Machines, Dice or Rock, Paper, Scissors. Texas Cheat ‘Em replaces time usually spent waiting for others to deal or bet in online poker with loads of fun planning cheats or playing minigames, and offers single-player as well as multiplayer options for up to eight players for a truly unique and robust gameplay experience. Online features are a priority for Texas Cheat ‘Em. All versions will support voice chat and Leaderboards, both console versions will support Achievements/ Entitlements, and the Xbox LIVE Arcade version will support Party Chat and Avatars.

Texas Cheat ‘Em is a Wideload Shorts production. The game is rated “T” (Teen, Ages Thirteen and Older – Simulated Gambling) by the ESRB. For more information about Texas Cheat ‘Em, please visit www.d3publisher.com.
 
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The King of Fighters '98 Ultimate Match

Platform: Xbox 360

Rating: Teen

Content descriptors: Suggestive Themes, Violence

Rating summary: The King of Fighters '98 Ultimate Match is a 2D arcade-style fighting game in which players compete in one-on-one combat with a large international cast of selectable characters. Players engage in hand-to-hand battles by mostly kicking, punching, and blocking their way to victory until the opposing player's life meter runs out. Some female fighters wear clothing that exposes their posterior and cleavage, while bouncing breasts are depicted during battles.




3 on 3 NHL Arcade

Platform: Xbox 360, PlayStation 3

Rating: Everyone

Content descriptors: Comic Mischief

Rating summary: This is a hockey game in which players compete in games of 3-on-3 hockey in a mini-sized rink. Players use standard hockey game actions such as skating, shooting the puck, passing, and body checking, along with "powerup" features that include making a goalie a giant and putting banana peels on the ice. Players can body-check one another for the reward of a powerup.


Gel

Platform: Xbox 360

Rating: Everyone

Content descriptors: Animated Blood, Comic Mischief

Rating summary: This is a puzzle game in which players use a small character to move colored blocks and arrange them into formations. Players can sometimes get "smushed" by thrown blocks or by "bomb blocks" that release a gel-like substance. Players can also customize their characters with a variety of zany costumes, including a "cartoony" zombie speckled with green slime and missing chunks of ear and jaw.
 
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