Microsoft has laid out a good portion of the Xbox Live Marketplace release schedule for April, ensuring that no one will buy a copy of The Maw or Borderlands: The Zombie Island of Dr Ned this week.
It’s a triple play this week on Xbox Live Arcade, the addictive gameplay of Peggle, the strategic defence of Crystal Defenders, and new downloadable content for Twisted Pixel’s The Maw.
Hothead Games is teaming up with other independent game developers to bring award winning titles to new platforms, starting with Twisted Pixel’s The Maw and Jonathan Blow’s Braid.
Twisted Pixel is hard at work on three new levels for The Maw which they plan to release on the Xbox 360 as downloadable content over the coming weeks.
Twisted Pixel Games’ The Maw is a 3D puzzle-platformer, starring the titular Maw and his newly befriended alien pal Frank. The two escape their evil captors, only to go on a gameplay binge.
Skate 2 turned up in the post yesterday. Considering my previous experiences with similar games – in a nutshell, utter failure at the two Tony Hawk games I’ve tried and an embarrassingly inept attempt to play Aggressive Inline – I’m not sure I have what it takes. It’s a genre I simply don’t understand. Which is a shame because I dig the idea. Any advice for getting my head around something like Skate 2?
Fable 2 has finally clicked with me. The smartest move I made was not bothering to perform stupid gestures and pull ridiculous expressions for all those annoying villagers. With that tedium out of the way, I’m making steady progress. My heroine is focused on ranged attacks, so I’ve upgraded all her Skill abilities alongside Force Push. It seems to be working a treat.
After a couple weeks of casual releases, Xbox Live Arcade heats up this month with this week’s release of the Castle Crashers: King Pack followed immediately by Twisted Pixel’s The Maw next week.
