The Xbox Live Indie Games Summer Uprising nears the end of its first week with today’s offering of T.E.C. 3001. T.E.C. is one of the more visually striking indie games in the promotion, and puts players in the metal feet of an android that jumps his way through 21 levels of 3-D platforming with a playstyle similar to Canabalt.
Microsoft has confirmed that Kinect
Star Wars, along with the Star Wars-themed Xbox 360 console, will not meet its
previously announced launch date of holiday 2011.
A Microsoft spokesperson told OXM (Official Xbox Magazine) that “Microsoft
and LucasArts have elected to move the launch of Kinect Star Wars beyond
holiday 2011 to ensure the full potential of this title is realized…This move
applies to both the Kinect Star Wars stand-alone game and the Kinect Star Wars
Limited Edition Console. We will communicate additional timing information at a
later date.”
Day 3 of the week-and-a-half long Indie Games
Summer Uprising sees the arrival of Cute
Things Dying Violently, a wonderfully-titled puzzle game with a deliciously
twisted sense of humour.
The New York City Fringe Festival gives us hundreds of artsy new plays every year. But this year, it’s also giving us boobs. Boobs attached to women dressed like characters from Star Trek and Star Wars. You can see these naked space women in a Burlesque/ Comedy show called The Star Debate: Trek VS Wars.
As I put the game in and reached the main menu, it already
began to win my attention with the dazzling background and mesmerizing music. El
Shaddai from the very beginning is a game which contains a marvelous mixture of
colors, but the colors are not the only good thing about the game.
You start off as the main
character Enoch, a human scribe who has been allowed to stay in heaven while
still alive as a result of his righteousness. Now the story is based on the
defiance of a group of angels named Azazel, Ezekiel, and Sariel who are known as the Watchers.
The angels were so fascinated with the way humans lived on earth that they
decided to leave heaven to go live on earth. As a result of their actions, the
elders of heaven make the decision of flooding earth, but Enoch with his pure
heart objected. Enoch was given the mission of going down to earth and bringing
back the fallen angels to be imprisoned in heaven, in order to prevent the
elders from flooding the earth. This is where your journey begins.
The Xbox Live Marketplace is filled with great games from AAA publishers but far too often neglects its indie counter parts. There are some gems to be found if people take their time and search for what they’re looking for, which bring us to Raventhorne, the first game in the Xbox Indie Games Summer Uprising.
Can’t wait to play id software’s RAGE and/or Bethesda’s The
Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim? Well, now’s
your chance! Both games are set to be
playable at PAX Prime from August 26th through the 28th in
Seattle, WA at Bethesda’s booth (#1314).
