Xbox Live Marketplace and Live Arcade discussion Part III

[Cyros]

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This fills me with sadness. At least I'll have Vegas 2 next week.

[Sandman42]

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This fills me with sadness. At least I'll have Vegas 2 next week.

Next? I thought it came out the 18th.

[Cyros]

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Next? I thought it came out the 18th.

Yeah.... that should read next month >_<. Wish I had a next week connection.

[Flawless]

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Quick walkthrough of Castle Crashers. Shows the world map and RPG elements.

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[Bruins]

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Quick walkthrough of Castle Crashers. Shows the world map and RPG elements.

Sweet, I'm really excited about this game.

[calcutta]

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Is Castle Crashers that same game where a woman called up complaining it was racist? Gametrailers had a video with her phone call as the voice over...

Anyhoo, I strongly recommend N+ on the Arcade. 800 points for a 13MB game seems like a stretch, but there is plenty of gameplay and challenge here (50 episodes with five levels each). There is co-op too and you can even view the playthroughs of the top ranked players to see how they completed levels!

[Flawless]

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V8 Arcade nears completion and we have screens

Today, with the help of tipster Alan, we came across freshly picked media and freshly picked news pertaining to recently announced XBLA game Vigilante 8 Arcade. No blemishes here, everything looks ripe for the picking.

Over on V8 Arcade's official home, the Isopod Labs crew has been keeping a consistent stream of new media and updates flowing including a handful of screenshots which we've placed in our gallery below. Isopod also posted a little fanmail session where they confirmed that they're at a 9 on the universal 1 through 10 development scale of completion as the game should release sometime this Spring. Oh, and advice for Isopod Labs. Bring back the banned N64 V8 commercial, because we're suckers for cheezy bleeped out "holy sh*t!" moments.

[Pete1210]

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MLB 2K8 demo is now available.

[Flawless]

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Footage of the upcoming XBLA game, Braid.

Braid won the "Innovation in Game Design" award at the Independent Games Festival in 2006.

Braid is played by solving physical puzzles in a somewhat standard video game environment like Super Mario Bros. with jumping and enemies. This is made innovative by the player's ability to reverse time and "rewind" one's actions, even after dying. Complicated puzzles result from features like objects that don't rewind with the rest of the universe and "ghosts" of the player's actions before rewinding.

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[jpup]

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MLB 2K8 demo is now available.

2 days late and a dollar short.

[jmood88]

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2 days late and a dollar short.

Why?

[ExtremeGamer]

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Why?

Because 2K released the demo after the game was already in stores. They got their money from the impulse buyers.

[jmood88]

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Because 2K released the demo after the game was already in stores. They got their money from the impulse buyers.

Yeah but I don't see why it matters to people that they didn't have a demo before the release date unless they just had to have a game at that moment. If I'm not sure that a game is going to be good then I'm fine with waiting for a demo and/or impressions.

[mjb2124]

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2 days late and a dollar short.

That game might be more than a dollar short.

[fishepa]

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Yeah but I don't see why it matters to people that they didn't have a demo before the release date unless they just had to have a game at that moment. If I'm not sure that a game is going to be good then I'm fine with waiting for a demo and/or impressions.

A lot of people use the demo to gauge whether or not they are going to purchase a game. Since the demo didn't come out before the game they just went ahead and bought the game. Nice marketing move by 2k.