With Metanet also working with Klei to bring N to Xbox Live Arcade, with «a number of enhancements as well, including a level editor that will allow players to make and exchange their own levels», it's looking
like XBLA should be great fun for indie lovers in 2007.
It looks a bit
like XBLA game World of Keflings.
Our first release will be on PC and Mac, but funding would allow us to convert the game to iOS, the Kindle Fire, consoles
like XBLA and PSN and maybe even portable gaming devices like the Vita.
There are no well planned spotlight campaigns
like XBLA's Arcade Next or Summer of Arcade.
The Summer of Arcade may have ended, but it looks
like the XBLA game library will continue to heat up with some fantastic games this fall.
We hate to jinx it, but it looks
like XBLA is finally getting the high quality survival horror title that we've all been waiting for.
It it feels
like XBLA has lost its identity.
Last month we got an oldie - but - goodie retail title (Gears of War) and a decently -
liked XBLA game: Shoot Many Robots.
Not exact matches
It may seem
like the average price of games on the
XBLA is increasing without any correlation to quality, but rest assured, Shadow Complex is worth every Microsoft point you pay.
I always thought Bit.Trip Runner would be a great arcade game, and Bit.Trip Presents Runner2: Future Legend of Rhythm Alien looks
like it will be a perfect fit on
XBLA, even with its insanely long title.
XBLA has no shortage of side - scrolling beat - em - ups: Castle Crashers and Scott Pilgrim vs. the World for starters, not to mention numerous old - school classics
like the entire Streets of Rage series.
Featured in 2010's The Pax 10 and released as a part of 2011's Summer of Arcade on
XBLA, it is kind of
like the little tank engine that could.
Occasionally,
XBLA Fans
likes to take a backseat and allow members of the development community to speak openly and directly to our readers.
While the PC version used low resolution pixel art, the
XBLA release has very well drawn and animated assets that look
like cartoonized versions of pulp adventure films, the sort that inspired Indiana Jones.
With narration from Patrick Stewart and a bleak art style to represent the H.G. Wells book it sounded
like a unique product for
XBLA.
They will win funding towards development various Windows platforms such as
XBLA, W7 phones and Windows which sounds
like a great way for your game to cross multiple platforms.
Eric Chahi sat down with Joystiq to give an inside peek into the collaborative effort required to produce non-mainstream games
like his upcoming
XBLA title, From Dust... Read More
Past
XBLA puzzle games
like Braid extended themselves by challenging players to speedruns, while The Misadventures of P.B. Winterbottom included challenge maps with time trials and other tests.
It seems
like only yesterday the Gamerscore limit on
XBLA received a much - welcomed raised from 200G to 400G.
If you're a racing fan then you're already somewhat spoiled for choice on
XBLA, with games
like Hydro Thunder Hurricane, TNT Racers and Skydrift, and many more are on the horizon.
The caliber of the competition at this year's Independent Games Festival is particularly high with games
like Atom Zombie Smasher, To the Moon and Frozen Synapse vying for bragging rights alongside the future
XBLA titles, a sure - fire indication of Fez and Spelunky's potential to be something special.
For others unsure or put off by its strange premise, do know that there is nothing
like it on
XBLA or anywhere else for that matter.
Such a successful studio with their new game, BattleBlock Theater, The Behemoth has allowed for players to make their characters look
like the Blue Knight or the Barbarian from their critically acclaimed
XBLA title, Castle Crashers.
With alumni
like that, this game deserves a special place in any
XBLA Fans heart.
The
XBLA port,
like most of Sega's, does about as much as you'd hope.
Team Meat stated that the sales ratio is nearly even; «its
like 55 % Steam 45 %
XBLA» they stated.
Amy looked and played
like a full retail title that — if it sells as well as we hope — could herald a new trend in
XBLA.
So what better way to introduce a new generation of console gamers to the Warhammer 40,000 universe then by pumping out a cost effective
XBLA shooter
like Kill Team?
Even if they released a game
like this for westerners and maybe some kind of console version, released via PSN /
XBLA...
Other exciting PAC - MAN titles,
like PAC - MAN MUSEUM will also be coming to Europe and Australasia this winter via digital download on
XBLA, PSN, Steam, and the Nintendo eShop.
Which considering the current economic climate is looking
like a safe bet, as Trenched has sold rather well pushing an impressive 60k units in its first few weeks on
XBLA.
Double Fine is responsible for a number of unique downloadable titles to hit the market this generation — Happy Action Theater (available on
XBLA for 800 MSP; in our review, we recommended trying before buying) along with titles
like Trenched / Iron Brigade, Stacking and Costume Quest.
Outages in service, file size limitations and Microsoft's own certification process have plagued the
XBLA in the past, and flops
like Game Room are disappointing.
Future games
like Dead Space 2 and Red Faction: Armageddon already have short downloadable tie - ins scheduled for release on
XBLA, and as with DR: CZ, these titles will carry over in some way to their corresponding full retail game.
Good news for
XBLA Fans, as it looks
like we are currently in the middle of one of the biggest Xbox Live Arcade sales, ever!
Later,
XBLA greats
like Bionic Commando: Rearmed, Battlefield 1943, Call of Duty: Classic and After Burner Climax would receive the same remastered treatment.
Games
like Limbo and The Misadventures of P.B. Winterbottom likely may have never seen the light of day on
XBLA if it weren't for Braid.
Chet: For us this project originally started as having CS ported to
XBLA and release kind of
like a nostalgia kind of thing.
Comparisons to Trials HD in this review are going to be often, and for good reason as Toy Stunt Bike feels much
like the massive
XBLA hit, albiet without the cool announcer.
It's coming to PCs as well, but instead of $ 15
like on
XBLA, it will cost $ 20.
This
XBLA title,
like other such remakes, boasts updated graphics.
«Each table felt 100 %
like a pinball representation of its triple - A counterpart; and not only was the table enjoyable to play, but it sparked great memories of the original games,» said
XBLA Fans.
He added: «The second step is dealing with folks who see the potential of UE3 on mobile, and other platforms, and want to make a higher level of game for those platforms
like our folks at Chair are doing with Project Sword on iOS and did on
XBLA with Shadow Complex.
I have a longer review on
XBLA & XBLIG Ratings, here, but it basically comes down to they made a nice pinball game if you
like that sort of thing.
Most of the game titles I'm stoked for weren't even mentioned in their pressers,
like the new Castlevania on
XBLA.
«For me and for the creation doublesix it was the launch of
XBLA with Geometry Wars and similar cool games that made me rush off, grab a bunch of people and get building games «
like they used to do (ish)».
Now if they're creating a framework where
XBLA games can be ported with no actual work, or even retail titles
like this, and have full cross-platform compatibility, that's one thing.
It's got everything you want in an
XBLA game — quick, tight gameplay, pick up and play in little chunks (or in five hour marathons, which happen just
like that) and immediate, continual positive feedback.
Even Vlambeer, the master of bite - sized 2D arcade titles
like Luftrausers and Ridiculous Fishing, wouldn't release its popular commercial debut, Super Crate Box, until two days after Super Meat Boy arrived on
XBLA.
Instead of releasing as a stodgy full - priced boxed product (the
likes of which have recently been losing money hand over fist), Techland are focusing their best ideas into a tight downloadable title on Steam, PSN and
XBLA.