Xbox Live Market Place - General Discussion Thread 1

[Zanza]

Is Puzzle Fighter HD out today? It shows up in my list of "new arrivals" in the arcade, but clicking on it only shows downloads for picture packs.

[bignige]

Is Puzzle Fighter HD out today? It shows up in my list of "new arrivals" in the arcade, but clicking on it only shows downloads for picture packs.

It's been like that for a week or so.

[MartyG]

You can disable it manually through the guide button can't you?

That's not really the point is it? It shouldn't keep vibrating - it's a bug!

[MJ]

Microsoft’s Dream-Build-Play Contest Sees Several Winners

You have to imagine that striving, independent video game designers from more than 100 different countries would love to have an opportunity at gaining the recognition of having their titled featured on the Xbox Live Arcade, world renown fame in the independent community and heck, the $10,000 grand prize probably didn’t hurt either.

“The games we received in the Dream-Build-Play competition are truly inspiring,” said Chris Satchell, general manager of the XNA organization at Microsoft. “Created in just four short months using XNA Game Studio, these games demonstrate an incredible range of innovation, fun gameplay and technical achievement.”

The competition boiled down to two finalists, namely David Flook of Ontario, Canada, and James Silva of New York Flook’s game was “Blazing Birds,” an action-packed, robotic sports game modeled after the game of badminton, and Silva’s game was “The Dishwasher: Dead Samurai,” a tale of vengeance, silliness and action. Both games were so darn good that Microsoft offered contracts with the Xbox Live Arcade division and $10,000 for the grand prize.

But that wasn’t all. Steve Olofsson of Sweden and Daniel McGuire of the United Kingdom received honors as runners-up for their games: “Gravitron Ultra” and “Yo Ho Kablammo!” respectively. Both designers were also offered contracts for the Xbox Live Arcade and given $5,000 as a prize.

“We uncovered some remarkable talent with this contest and are pleased to include these original creations in our diverse library of games on Xbox LIVE Arcade,” said Bryan Trussel, director of content and portals for Microsoft Casual Games. “It’s aspiring, independent developers like these who are really driving our industry.”

Dream-Build-Play generated more than 4,500 different members from the game development community who enrolled to take part in the contest. You can view the final results of the contest by visiting the Official Dream-Build-Play Website.

http://www.cinemablend.com/games/Microsoft-s-Dream-Build-Play-Contest-Sees-Several-Winners-5790.html

An UK entry came second:

http://www.dreambuildplay.com/main/default.aspx

XNA site:

http://creators.xna.com

[MartyG]

From what played it didn't seem drastically different from Hexic apart from the edition of 2 player & battle modes. The core gameplay seems more or less identical though.

Agreed - the addition of the battle mode isn't worth 800 points when Hexic HD is virtually the same. Chances are you've got a HD already, so you've got the original. I'm not spending my points on it.

[Spatial]

Blergh! If there was one game that clearly didn't need a sequel it was Hexic.

Hexic2 is the first minus the clear-cut visual appeal that made it so great (and actually able to see what you were doing)

[MJ]

I'll pass then.

[RuBiQ]

anyone got a heads up of next weeks releases yet?

I thought Speedball2 was marked for release soon?

[RuBiQ]

Thinking about it, i would love to see the old duke nukem 3d released, along with Megalamania and maybe the original C&C game (one before red alert)

Also old Sega Rally and Daytona Rally.

Also want the old THE LAST NINJA series with HD graffics released and Kid Chameleon too.

Something to use my points on!!!

[VR46]

We usually find out XBLA Weds releases on a Monday around 5pm.

[Malc]

We need Quake 3 arena, it's been to long!

[PeteJ]

Sensi is August is it not?

[kendra]

Sensi is August is it not?

It's looking more and more likely like it's delayed till September, given that Codemasters no longer confirm that release date they gave of August 29th...

[ChrisF]

When's this Undertow out? 9/10 in OXM!

[PeteJ]

When's this Undertow out? 9/10 in OXM!

I dunno, but having just looked it up I want it now! Looks awesome.

http://www.gamersyde.com/stream_3720_en.html

A game set underwater using the Unreal 3 engine, why hasn't anyone else thought of that?