Axel & Pixel is the newest title to premier on the Xbox Live Arcade from 2KPlay, and SilverWish. I know lots of you tweeted furiously yesterday, trying to get one of the free giveaway codes for Axel & Pixel in the Loot Ninja Twitter Contest. The main character, Axel, is an artist accompanied by his pet, and faithful companion, Pixel. The story begins as Axel and Pixel fall asleep in their rocking chair, and are magically transported to a dream world by an evil rat. You must chase the rat through 24 chapters, and 4 seasons, climaxing at the lair of the Ice Monster, and the final battle. The evil rat lured you into this dream world, and you must find your way to the Ice Monster’s lair and defeat him before he locks the dream land into an eternal winter, from which you will never escape.
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EA will release a simpler version of the popular football game called ”Madden NFL Arcade”, which features “pick-up and play” 5-on-5 games.
The game appears to be more casual compared to its more realistic, and complex siblings. Players get four downs to march 60 yards and score a touchdown. The first team to 30 wins. Players can also use “Game Changers,” special power-ups to give players the upper hand, such as freezing an opponent’s receiver or turning off their passing icons.
Madden NFL Arcade will sport visuals similar to what EA used for the Nintendo Wii release of Madden NFL 10, and will sell as a download on Xbox Live and the PlayStation Network for $15 this December.
The release of Madden NFL Arcade is also going to try and address one of the sports genre’s biggest issues: As controls for sports simulations bet more and more complicated, it gets harder and harder for newer players to catch on.
[Courtesy of USAToday.com]
I don’t even know if that is a real sentence up there in the title? Nor do I care at this point. I’m happy! Happy as all get out that I will be able to spend even more time in my favorite little Colorado town known as South Park. I’ve got a lot of great memories there. I saw the South Park Cows in their first football game, I saw the boys take on Scuttlebutt with Patrick Duffy as a leg, and saw the demise of Chef (sorry for the spoiler). You’ll even see Manbearpig around here in Scuba’s avatar. Truth is, we are fans around here.
Coming this week to Xbox Live is the longest game title ever to hit the XBLA service. South Park: Let’s Go Tower Defense Play! is set to hit Xbox Live this week for 800 MS points. Word on the street is it’s actually a South Park game that DOESN’T suck Chef’s chocolate salty balls. Check it out if you have some free time, but be sure to watch out for the yellow snow.
The other new title to hit this week is LucasArt’s Lucidity, a 2D puzzle platformer that follows a non-stop walking young girl named Sophie. The art style and venture away from the cash money franchises of Indy and Star Wars is enough reason to check this game out. This is also the same group that brought us the greatness that is The Secret of Monkey Island, so the gameplay and idea should be top notch. It’s easy to figure out from the South Park title that it’s a tower defense game. In Lucidity, you will be tasked with figuring out which item to use, and then placing said items in Sophie’s path to prevent her from falling to her death. Can’t wait to check both of these out!
Both will be released today for 800 Microsoft Imagination Land-Reading Rainbow-Couric’s (shit measurement) from Xbox Live.
Okay, so I came home on Friday with my new copy of ODST that I snagged off Craigslist on the cheap. But I decided I would go ahead andcheck out Ion Assault first. Because I knew I would be totally engrossed in ODST for the whole weekend, and would probably not touch anything else for awhile.
I didn’t touch ODST until 11:00 Friday night.
That’s how addicting and cool Ion Assault is. I played the solo missions for about 2 hours until some friends showed up, and then we played the co-op campaign for about another 2 hours after that.
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For the past few years, I’ve labeled the summer and early fall as the official video game drought. The games I want always seem to come out in every other season besides summer. Since I’m still in school, the summer is the only real chance I get to sit down and focus on games. After looking through the marketplace, I stumbled upon Splosion Man. The game revolves around a little red man who can ’splode three times before needing to touch the ground again. There are 50 levels to traverse and you won’t be strolling through all of them.
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While most of you gamers out there are anxiously awaiting the release of Madden 10 this Friday, Trials HD on Xbox Live Arcade will undoubtedly be the unsung hero of this week’s releases coming two days earlier than Madden does. HA! Take that Madden! I won’t let you have the entire spotlight for this week in game releases! I don’t want all of you to forget about the greatness that is Trials HD!
At the heart of it, I’m an NHL 10 kind of guy, so the football craze around this time isn’t really my thing. Yeah I know, I live deep in the heart of Dallas Cowboys insanity, so this really is a shocker. Some say I should give my social security card back to the government, leave the country, and don’t get to ever set foot on American soil ever again for having said that type of blasphemy. But what I lack in love of American football, I make up for in loving death, mayhem, dismemberment and destruction. At the heart of Trials HD, that is exactly what you are going to get out of this game. Does that make up for some of it? I mean, I also still love greasy hamburgers?
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Magic cards were all the rave when I was in middle school, which was 1994. Well, they were the rave to some kids. Some people would play Magic at lunch time and others would whip Jell-O snack packs at them screaming, “I cast Butterscotch!”. I won’t tell you which kid was me but I can tell you that I played Magic on XBLA last week and I have to say, I feel bad for throwing pudding at people.
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DICE is trying to give us something to play until Bad Company 2 comes out. BF 1943 is the love child of the BF 1942 maps with the all new Frostbite graphics engine that Bad Company used. The game played like a Low Carb Strawberry beer. It was…..Okay. It was a pre-build so my hopes are not shattered. Asking for 15 bucks for a spiffed up multiplayer only game may be asking too much right now. The game will be available for download in June.
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