Microsoft’s House Party priced and dated
Microsoft’s House Party promotion , a five-game pack that includes Beyond Good & Evil HD , has been fully priced and dated.
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Zombie MMO confirmed for Xbox Live Arcade
Undead Labs, in conjunction with Microsoft Game Studios, has officially announced a zombie-themed open-world game for Xbox Live Arcade. After having been in talks with both Sony and Microsoft, Jeff Strain, founder of Undead Labs, said his company agreed to bring the online world zombie survival game to Xbox Live exclusively. The MMO, currently codenamed Class 3 , is set to be a precursor to the similarly coded Class 4 . Both will be open-world zombie survival games, with Class 3 being the base building block for Class 4 and pose the same basic question: What would you do in the face of the zombie apocalypse? Players will be able to choose where to build fortifications and settlements, nabbing food and ammo by pulling off various raids, and proving humanity can persist by rescuing survivors. Class 3 is set to establish the core gameplay and mechanics that Class 4 will build upon, going from 1 – 2 players locally or via Xbox Live in 3 to a server-hosted world in 4 with thousands of simultaneous players, all trying to survive the zombie horde. No release date is slated as of yet.
Capcom ‘Saddened’ About MaXplosion Controversy
Although Capcom’s expressing regret that its new mobile game, MaXplosion , is so similar to Twisted Pixel’s Splosion Man , it claims its mobile team didn’t get an early peek at the XBLA game before developing its project. Since MaXplosion hit the app store last week, there’s been something of an online outcry from Sploison Man fans — and from Twisted Pixel itself. The Splosion Man developers took to Twitter recently to complain that MaXplosion ‘s red, cartoony, self-detonating hero and its quirky laboratory setting were a little bit too much like their own work. Notably, Twisted Pixel claimed it had shown the Xbox Live Arcade title to Capcom for possible publishing and been rejected well before the release of MaXplosion . Capcom admits it saw the title beforehand, but asserts the mobile team had no contact with the group that evaluated it. “While Twisted Pixel did have discussions with our console game team about publishing Splosion Man on game consoles, Capcom Mobile is a different division of Capcom with separate offices and, as such, had no prior knowledge of any meetings between the console game team and Twisted Pixel,” said the publisher in a statement to consumer weblog Joystiq . “ MaXplosion was developed independently by Capcom Mobile,” the statement continues. “Nonetheless, we are saddened by this situation and hope to rebuild the trust of our fans and friends in the gaming community.” Brand recognition is an important component for success on Apple’s crowded App Store, and recognizable properties tend to sell much better than original or unproven franchises. Many look-alikes that have appeared on the Store include heavy similarities to console properties without crossing the line into actual IP theft. Gameloft has published Halo -alike N.O.V.A
10 Indie Games To Watch Out For In 2011
Have you heard the news? Apparently there’s a new year coming soon, and it’s going to look a bit like the one we have now, except slightly upgraded by one measure. These developers, huh – releasing things that aren’t fully complete, and then expecting us to pay for the latest version even though it’s barely different to the one we already have! Anyway, there are quite a few indie games coming out for this new update, so I’ve had a crack at choosing just ten of them
First Two Minutes of Fez
Polytron has posted up a video of the first two minutes of upcoming XBLA title Fez. The gameplay shows protagonist Gomez climbing up to meet Geezer at the top of a little village, before a strange, 3D cube appears spinning above his head.