Ninjabee reveal Cloning Clyde’s ’spiritual successor’

Ninjabee have this morning revealed the ’spiritual successor’ to Xbox Live Arcade’s excellent platformer, Cloning Clyde.
Titled Ancients of Ooga, information is currently sparse, but the press release as detailed on Ninjabee’s dev blog follows.
OREM, Utah – Aug. 31, 2009 – NinjaBee and J. Kenworthy Entertainment, the creative team that envisioned and developedCloning Clyde for Xbox LIVE Arcade, [...]

1 vs 100 for the UK on 10th July

Microsoft has confirmed that the rather wonderful Live gameshow 1 vs. 100 will begin in the UK on the 10th of July. That’s this week!
There’ll be no prizes available for the first week, but from the second onwards there’ll be Microsoft Points and Arcade games to win, as well as entries into a sweepstake for [...]

Halfbrick unveil their next “Halfbrick Friday” offering

Beginning with Blast Off and continuing with Echoes, the Halfbrick Friday series of Xbox Live Community games will soon see its third entry; Halfbrick Rocket Racing.
The game is a 2D, top-down racing game as is quite apparent from the trailer.

Less obvious is the control system, which uses the left and right analogue triggers to control [...]

Band of Bugs meets Outpost Kaloki X in new DLC

Ninjabee, one of Xbox Live Arcade’s most consistent developers, have today announced some new DLC for Band of Bugs, along with avatar support.
The avatar support will come with a free update to the game and offer players the chance to have their own likeness come face to face with insects twice their size. Which frankly, [...]

(US) 1 vs 100 open to Silver members this weekend

Microsoft has offered Silver members the chance to join in the 1 vs 100 beta this weekend, with the game available to all between Friday 26th and Sunday 28th of June.
The offer is available in the United States only as that’s where the beta is available right now, but being open to silver members means [...]

Serious Sam returns, on XBLA

Eurogamer this morning confirmed that Serious Sam is to see a new game courtesy of Croteam and Majesco. Well, not exactly a new game, a “reimagining” of the first encounter, dubbed Serious Sam HD.
The FPS was universally praised by critics, who loved its sense of humour, constant stream of enemies resulting in epic battles, and [...]

Final Fantasy hits PSN in Japan

Square-Enix’s Final Fantasy has been released onto the Japanese PSN store, at a cost of ¥600. The first of the “Final” games in the never-ending series is as retro as RPGs get, but with this being the PSone release you’ll at least get a few CG movies for your money.
Square-Enix, previously so against putting their [...]

BIT.TRIP.CORE in the US for 6th July

Alex Neuse of Gaijin Games posted the above image on the company’s official blog under the heading “CORE.” But just what could it mean?
Well, all signs point to a 6th July release date in the US (they do their dates all the wrong way round, y’see.)
BIT.TRIP.CORE is the second game in the BIT.TRIP series, after [...]

Icarian gets a name change

NyxQuest: Kindred Spirits. No, not a sequel to the very-well-received Icarian: Kindred Spirits, but a name change. Released in Europe last week as Icarian, the game will from now on be known as NyxQuest. Developer Over the Top Games was brief in its statement, and gave no reason for the change.
In a few days, and [...]

Worms 2: Armageddon given 1st July release date

As spotted by the folk at Kotaku, Team 17 today updated the above video to include a release date for Worms 2: Armageddon of next Wednesday, and a quite reasonable price of 800.

Worms 2: Armageddon is the confusingly titled sequel to 2007’s Worms, a title that’s still in Xbox Live Arcade’s top ten. The aforementioned [...]

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