The 360 thread!

[Mark]

Yoinks! I'm going to be going through MS points like they're going out of fashion in the weeks to come: Summer of Arcade

Bionic Commando: Rearmed and Castle Crashers look awesome, and all the others are on PartnerNet and are ace (look out for Galaga Legions - it's forged entirely from highly-polished premium-grade awesomeness).

[Felonious Feline]

Interesting...if you read the T&Cs for the competition;

One (1) Xbox LIVE 12-month Gold subscription card (ARV: US$49.99, EUR € 31.55, GBP £ 24.98)

Perhaps they are about to drop the Gold subscription price too....

[Phineasfool]

Yoinks! I'm going to be going through MS points like they're going out of fashion in the weeks to come: Summer of Arcade

Bionic Commando: Rearmed and Castle Crashers look awesome, and all the others are on PartnerNet and are ace (look out for Galaga Legions - it's forged entirely from highly-polished premium-grade awesomeness).

Bout time we get a good string of XBLA games after all those sub par ones.

[Jonesey]

Yoinks! I'm going to be going through MS points like they're going out of fashion in the weeks to come: Summer of Arcade

Bionic Commando: Rearmed and Castle Crashers look awesome, and all the others are on PartnerNet and are ace (look out for Galaga Legions - it's forged entirely from highly-polished premium-grade awesomeness).

YAAY! Green FTW!

[Flabio]

Geometry Wars 2 is a bit good isn't it?

[Mark]

Geometry Wars 2 is a bit good isn't it?

Oh yes! Nice variety in the modes, the multiplayer works a treat, and it looks lovely on a big 1080p telly too. (Sadly haven't got one at home yet, but it's getting mighty tempting.) Some nice achievements too - I've got a friend who's spent ages trying to get Wax Off - he's regularly hitting 90%+ with a top of 96%, but just can't quite finish it - hehe!

[benedictw]

Looks like I need to start ordering points by the cartload.

[disciple]

Geometry Wars 2 is a bit good isn't it?

Ah you sod, you're playing it on PartnerNet or something aren't you.

[Bod]

Quote ...

"Good news for thrifty gamers: Microsoft's online multiplayer service could be offered free in the future.

Currently Xbox 360 gamers who want to play online must have an Xbox Live Gold membership, which costs around £35 a year - but according to rumours Microsoft is preparing to offer free multiplayer options on some titles, with Lost Planet: Extreme Condition Colonies Edition, Universe at War: Earth Assault and Shadowrun all mentioned by name. All three games are also available on PC via Microsoft's Games For Windows range, which could be the key to the free online play.

Microsoft is keeping quiet on the matter so far, and with Xbox Live raking in plenty of coin for them we'd be very surprised to see the Gold membership scheme ditched any time soon - unless it's to deal a nasty blow against the PlayStation 3, which offers a relatively basic, but entirely free, online service."

[benedictw]

Microsoft is preparing to offer free multiplayer options on some titles, with Lost Planet: Extreme Condition Colonies Edition, Universe at War: Earth Assault and Shadowrun all mentioned by name. All three games are also available on PC via Microsoft's Games For Windows range, which could be the key to the free online play.

All of the above are free to play in Silver - for the time being. (Side effect of Live for Windows being free now).

Official MS comment on this:
http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/f ... -microsoft

[benedictw]

http://kotaku.com/5030926/castle-crashe ... bla-titles

Braid to be 1200 points.
Castle Crashers to be 1800.

I'll jump on Braid in an instant, I'll need the demo of CC to persuade me that it doesn't have Alien Hominids insane difficulty.

[oddbob0]

http://kotaku.com/5030926/castle-crashers-and-braid-pricey-for-xbla-titles

Braid to be 1200 points.
Castle Crashers to be 1800.

I'll jump on Braid in an instant, I'll need the demo of CC to persuade me that it doesn't have Alien Hominids insane difficulty.

Yup, I'll have off with Braid no worries. The Behemoth can cunt off though.

[Phineasfool]

At least every XBLA game has a free trial version. Will have to give both of these a try first before buying.

[PaulCunningham]

Expect to see more expensive XBLA games from now on.

[benedictw]

Braid to be 1200 points.
Castle Crashers to be 1800.

Apparently MS has denied that these are the prices.

These prices are incorrect for foreign and domestic markets.

Curiouser and Curiouser. Were they testing the waters?