The Indie Games Summer Uprising continues with day 2 of the week and a half long event. Tuesday’s featured game is Battle High: San Bruno, a 2D fighter game known for its classic feel and fun play-style.
The two-week long Xbox Live Indie Summer Uprising event will showcase a different Indie game every day for the next two weeks, and it kicks off today with Raventhorne, a side-scrolling viking beat-em up by Milkstone Sudios.
During Blizzard’s Gamescom press conference Josh Mosqueira said that Blizzard “Is very,very serious” about bringing the Diablo III experience to the console. “We’re looking for programmers, designers, artists who think their dream job would be to bring Diablo to the console. Trust me, it is a dream job,” Mosqueria said. He didn’t confirm that Diablo III will be coming to consoles, but earlier in the year, Blizzard was looking to hire a Lead Designer, Lead Programmer and a Senior Producer for a “Diablo-related concept for consoles.”
They just don’t make apocalypses like they used to. In my day, when zombies annihilated civilization, it STAYED annihilated! Now-a-days, it seems that zombies have to re-annihilate things every couple of years, which must be behind Konami’s sequel to the 2009 twin-stick shooter Zombie Apocalypse.
If you’ve never played one of the Mass Effect games, then you’ve either
been living under a rock for the past three years or your 360 has been sitting
in the garage gathering dust. The final
part in Bioware’s Mass Effect trilogy
is arguably one of the most-anticipated games to be released on the 360, and is
currently scheduled for release on March 6, 2012.
Soul Calibur is one of those fighting game series
which has been happily chugging along for well over ten years now, refining its
gameplay systems with each incarnation in order to remain relevant. The last installment of the series, Soul Calibur IV, dropped in 2008, a fair
while ago, which would suggest that Namco Bandai has spent the intervening
three years coming up with more ways to alter the newest entry in the series
without changing it too much and alienating their core fanbase.
Microsoft has decided to trade glitzy for nondescript when it comes to
the finish for their console. The slim version of the Xbox 360, which was
released in June 2010, wowed those who were
present at its unveiling with its glossy black finish and sleek design. The
new finish will look much closer to the old black Xbox 360 elite models (or the
slimmed down PS3) than its sexier counterpart, but with the same sleek design.
Epic’s much anticipated final installment in the Gears of War franchise is scheduled to hit shelves on September 20th, but not for those who just can’t wait to leak an early build of the game. Epic claims that they have software in place that will allow them to track down anyone who spoils one of the industry’s most anticipated shooters.
According to the complaint, Xbox LIVE Gold is a prepaid
subscription based service. For the past few years, Microsoft has automatically
renewed members’ Xbox LIVE Gold subscriptions once they expire, using the
members’ credit cards, debit cards, or prepaid cards on file in their account.
If members do not maintain a valid payment method in their account, then Microsoft
cancels the subscription and suspends the members’ access to the service. If
members wish to later sign up for a new subscription, the complaint alleges,
they risk being billed twice by Microsoft—once for the new subscription
purchased and again to “automatically” renew the old canceled subscription.
Sure, we’re all excited about Gears of War 3 next month, but remember that your Xbox also has an extensive library of lower profile games in the Xbox Live Arcade Indie section. Hard-working, talented people put some simple, yet great games for sale there often costing a mere dollar, and several Xbox Indie developers are launching a promotion to highlight the best of them. It’s called the Indie Games Summer Uprising, and it will showcase a different game each day for two weeks starting August 22nd.
