Apparently Marble Blast Ultra has broken into the Top 10 games on Xbox Live. Normally this wouldn’t be huge news, but I am a big indie gaming fan, and this flies in the face of what the big development and publishing houses have been telling us.
I’m sick of all this talk that only huge elaborate games can make it these days and that costs will just go up to the roof. I often feel that these companies need to learn to be more creative and try new things. After all, companies like Popcap Games aren’t starving.
It’s funny that Marble Blast Ultra is considered a “casual” game, when it so strongly resembles some arcade classics (like Marble Madness). I think a lot of us would be happy with some simple but well designed games, espescially at lower prices. Lets hope the XBL Marketplace proves me right.
Source [url=http://www.joystiq.com/2006/02/13/a-casual-game-blasts-into-xbl-top-10/]Joystiq[/url]
Alright gamer nerds, time to warm your true loves heart with some horribly insipid card and fifty bucks worth of flowers. If you want to spread the love gamer style, [url=http://frank05.critter.net/art.html]this guy[/url] has a few options.
The links are hard to follow but the top row, 3rd over from the right through the 6th.
Source: [url=http://www.joystiq.com/2006/02/14/a-colossally-romantic-valentine-also-wow-and-katamari-valenti/]Joystiq[/url]
It seems like it has been an eternity in the making, but Advent Children has just gotten it’s DVD release date of April 25th. The voice cast has also been [url=http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3147962]released[/url]. Everyone has already seen this right? Thought so.
Source: [url=http://arstechnica.com/journals/thumbs.ars/2006/2/13/2854]Ars[/url] via Joe Honkie
Ars is reporting that in the next 4 to 6 weeks you should be able to walk into any store and pick up an Xbox 360. This is good news for those of us who have yet to take the next generation plunge.
Source: [url=http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20060213-6165.html]Ars[/url]
The next Lifestyles Podcast will be a very special one. We are in new territories as we were trying some new things out to get you the community more involved, so please bare with us. We will have our very own Dave Brown as a guest via VOIP. We would like to hear what everyone thought about the show once I get it up to Cone to post. I am still in the editing process, so the show might be up later today or early tomorrow. Sorry about the delay, we always try to have the podcasts up on Mondays for everyone to listen to when they get to work on Mondays. Cheers!
