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Carcassonne Coming To A DS Near You

8:30PM Luke Plunkett | Classic German board game Carcassonne – which has already turned up on Xbox Live Arcade – will also soon be making the leap to the Nintendo DS, courtesy of Koch Media. More »

Reminder! Carcassonne is currently available …

7:30AM Michael McWhertor | Reminder! Carcassonne is currently available for free via Xbox Live Arcade, as part of the Xbox Live Is 5ive celebration. Don’t sleep, because the digital version of the board game becomes pay to play exactly one minute after November 16th at 11:59 PST. More »

Xbox Live Turns Five, Gives Away Carcassonne

3:00AM Mark Wilson | We’ve long been waiting to hear what Xbox LIVE would be pulling out for their fifth anniversary. Now we know. Carcassonne, an already released XBLA board game, will be available for free download between 12:01 a.m. PST on Nov. 15 and 11:59 p.m. PST on Nov. 16. In addition, members of LIVE who’ve been faithful since 2002 will be gifted 500 points. Also, our new press release has mentioned that Psychonauts is coming to XBLA as a classic Xbox download with the fall update. Score. Here’s the full press release: More »

Expansion Pack Hits Carcassonne

7:00AM Brian Crecente | Tabletop-to-XBLA game Carcassonne is getting an expansion pack. The King and Baron pack comes with new five new town piece tiles and two new bonuses: * The player with the largest completed Town will get the ‘King’ icon next to their Gamertag/Avatar. The player with the King icon at the end of the game will receive one point for each completed city in the game. * The player with the longest completed Road will get the ‘Baron’ icon next to their Gamertag/Avatar. The player with the Baron icon at the end of the game will receive one point for each completed road in the game. The “pack” will sell for 300 Microsoft Points. More »