Wednesday, March 17, 2010

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 [...]

Microsoft’s Kodu due out on 30th June

Brier Dudley, writing in his blog for The Seattle Times, has confirmed a 30th June release date for Microsoft’s Kodu project, and a price of 400. The game will be released on the Xbox Live Community Games channel.

Kodu is a games creation interface which has been likened to LittleBigPlanet, but can create games in any [...]

Clover: another XBL Community Game suffers poor sales

Adding fuel to an already fairly substantial fire, Clover’s developer has stated that Xbox Live Community games simply don’t offer a means to make a profit.
Clover is one of few Xbox Live Community Games to have gained attention from the press, and despite a positive response from critics and gamers alike, this attention hasn’t translated [...]

XNA Community Games – Dust: An Elysian Tail

After a very long period of silence in the online space, Dean Dodrill has finally returned with something very new in his Elysian Tale saga; the tentatively titled Dust: An Elysian Tail. Based on his animated feature Elysian Tail which is currently in production, he has decided to expand the universe by developing a tie [...]

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