Showing posts with label live arcade. Show all posts
Showing posts with label live arcade. Show all posts

Wreckateer Announced for Xbox Live Arcade

Major Nelson has unveiled on his blog an all new Kinect title for Xbox Live Arcade. Coming later this year Wreckateer, from developer Iron Galaxy, is a physics based game that challenges players to knock over 60 castles infested with goblins using various projectiles. The game sounds like it could be Kinect's answer to Angry Birds.

Check out the trailer below!

Haunt, Happy Action Theater and Rhythm Party Get Release Dates

Kinect is well suited to Live Arcade, where ambitious projects can thrive at an affordable price. The next few weeks will see three solid looking releases, starting with NanaOn-Sha's Haunt which will be available to download January 18th for 800 Microsoft Points. From the creators of Parappa The Rapper, players are made to freely explore a haunted mansion, outsmarting ghosts and working their way past a variety of puzzles and traps. Check out the trailer here.

Next up is Double Fine's Happy Action Theater, a collection of looping mini-games with a strong focus on augmented reality and fun rather than competitiveness. Legendary game designer Tim Schafer announced on Twitter that the game will be available to download February 1st. Check out the trailer here.

Finally February will also see the release of Konami's dancing game Rhythm Party, previously titled Boom Boom Dance. Rather than follow specific choreography as found in the likes of Dance Central and Just Dance, Rhythm Party lets you dance in any way you want as long as you hit the circles in time with the beat. With more in common with titles like Elite Beat Agents and Konami's Bemani games, and a crazy and varying art style, it's sure to offer a unique Kinect dance experience when it launches February 8th. Check out the trailer here.

Fez Creator Working on Super Hypercube for Kinect

Speaking to Gamasutra Phil Fish, the visionary behind long-awaited Xbox Live Arcade title Fez, has already unveiled the game his team are working on now that Fez is nearing release.

Super Hypercube was a pre-Fez puzzle game made using the Wii for head tracking in a similar way to the now infamous Johnny Lee video. Players rotate blocks of various shape using a controller in an attempt to align the correct face with the hole in the wall, not too dissimilar to the array of Hole In The Wall-inspired titles already found on Kinect, only using traditional Tetris-like blocks rather than your actual body.

As a concept the game worked, but the messy implementation made it impossible for many people to make use of the key head tracking feature. Now Kinect offers the perfect solution, and not only do they have the game working, it was a finalist at IndieCade two weeks ago and Microsoft are showing interest. 

Hopefully the game will finally see release for Kinect! Check out some old footage below of how the game looked in its concept stage 3 years ago.

Fruit Ninja Kinect Xbox Live Arcade August 10th

The much anticipated Kinect iteration of the popular mobile game Fruit Ninja is coming to Xbox Live Arcade on August 10th. The game, which was greatly received at E3 earlier this month, translates the fruit slicing gameplay from finger flick to arm chop, featuring all of the classic modes from the mobile game plus a few new modes exclusive to Kinect.

The game will launch for 800 points as part of Xbox Live's Summer of Arcade, which will feature a much-anticipated exclusive Live Arcade title every week starting July 20th. Check out the full list of titles and prices below. If you purchase them all, you get Crimson Alliance, an upcoming RPG worth 1200 points, for free!
  • July 20 - Bastion - 1200 points
  • July 27 - From Dust - 1200 points
  • August 3 - Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet - 1200 points
  • August 10 - Fruit Ninja Kinect - 800 points
  • August 17 - Toy Soldiers: Cold War - 1200 points
Still need convincing? Check out our exclusive gameplay footage from E3 below!

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