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Sunday Comics: Dead Island Artist Dave Rapoza, whose amazing work we’ve featured before here on Kotaku, let us know over the weekend about a little competition his (and fellow artist Dan Warren’s) website, Crimson Daggers, was running.
While I generally don’t pay too much attention to Maxim’s video game coverage, mainly because I don’t feel like I fit into their core demographic (Maxim readers), every once in a while the magazine that gave Sudeki for the Xbox 5 stars has something interesting to offer. Like a list of the 7 Greatest Faceless Announcers in Video Games, a celebration of those announcers we never see but will never forget. You may know them as “The Finish Him Guy”, or “the guy from Soul Calibur who sounds like he’s just making shit up as he goes along”, but you love them just the same.
I’d be quite interested to see the process involved with choosing what games become Xbox Live Arcade Xbox Originals. I am beginning to think a hat is involved. While some of the picks so far have been no-brainers, others are a bit more questionable.
Larry Hyrb points out that Microsoft is slashing prices on four Xbox Live titles starting Sunday and ending Monday night. The Live fire sale cuts Small Arms, Zuma Deluxe, Gauntlet and Dig Dug prices in half starting 12:00 a.m. GMT on Sunday, September 2 and continuing until 11: 59 p.m. GMT on Monday, September 3.
Hit the jump for the list of games, description and prices.
