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Sunday Comics: Dead Island The newly cancelled 1 vs 100 Xbox Live game show isn’t the only clever idea for the Xbox 360 that has met its meteor. Let’s review some 360 initiatives that seemed cool but now seem dead.
The warehouses holding all of those Xbox Live Arcade titles are bursting at the seams, and MIcrosoft is making room, so they’re discounting South Park, Rocket Riot, Schizoid, and many more as part of the first ever Inventory Blowout Sale.
Gamasutra has an interesting (if spotty at points) article up with Tetsuya Mizuguchi, the man behind Rez and Lumines (Lumines Live! is one of those games I have to be careful about playing, since I find it oh—so—hard to put it down), talking about proper vibrator placement while playing Rez, the future of Dadaist games, and emotional depth in games:
A quintet of Xbox Live Arcade releases are permanently getting a price drop, ushering in the Arcade Hits program. What makes something an Arcade Hit? Something that was, at one time, more expensive than it is now. Distinguished company, no? The first games to get the Arcade Hits designation will be Lumines Live!, Zuma Deluxe, Small Arms, Marble Blast Ultra and Bankshot Billiards 2. Lumines Live! for 800 Microsoft Points, here I come!
Arcade Hits [Xbox]
We don’t know how we missed this yesterday, but good news if you still haven’t picked up a copy of Lumines Live! The game is now 400 points cheaper, running 800 points on XBLA. Personally, I found the title a major letdown that failed to rekindle the magic of the original PSP version. But who knows, you may love it! Since Every Extend Extra Extreme also came out this week, you can have a duo of Miz for under a Jackson—the means $US 20 for you who are not hip with the low budget lingo. Lumines Live Price Drop [via xboxdomain]
During our meeting with Q Entertainment today they let spill that the company is working on releasing two new skins for Lumines Live! on the 360.
The company is planning to give away the skin Heavenly Star and Breeze for free to gold members of Xbox Live for a limited time in mid-October.
