"Here comes the Funcooker"

lol omg, somebody's gonna get so fired.

http://www.computerandvideogames.com...php?id=211095/

Remaining Days of Arcade release schedule:

3/25 - Uno Rush

4/1 - Puzzle Quest: Galactrix (no joke?!)

4/8 - Flock & The Dishwasher: Dead Samurai (double-billing)

4/15 - OutRun Online Arcade

4/22 - Lode Runner

ETA: though the wording on the story is strange. Seems almost backwards.

I'll be all over Dishwasher on the 8th. Loved the demo.

Thank god, finally a release date for Galactrix.

Figures that they hold Lode Runner until the last day.

I've been playing Braid this week (because of the sale) and I'm down to 3 pieces left. Great game... even better since it was on sale.

I haven't done any cheating yet, but the ones I have left I'm totally stumped on. I sat and stared at one of them last night for 20 minutes and couldn't come up with anything(last one in World 6, where the key falls into the spike pit). I have one other in 6, and one left in 5.

Also gave Pac-Man:CE a spin last night. I actually came close to topping my high which has stood for two years now. I was within 10k and I died in the last 10 seconds which ate up enough time that I came up short. Argh! It was enough to make the overall top 20 for the week so far though. I'm never going to top my 379k. sigh...

I'm in for Uno Rush, The Dishwasher, OutRun and (maybe) Lode Runner.

Also, I should finally have time to get back to gaming after this weekend.

Depending on the demo i may get:

PQ: Galactrix
Lode Runner

I have never played the UNO Rush card game before so i have no clue if i would like it or not. The demo might hook me.

^ Uno Rush is a new game for XBLA, there's not a physical version.

I'd like to see how Uno Rush plays. It looks a lot like regular Uno and I don't think it would be worth 800 points for me to own a faster version.

I like Outrun, but I already have the Xbox version and from what I've read, this Arcade version has nothing over that one (except HD-touched up graphics).

Curious to see how Flock ends up playing like. It might be a fun game, but it's hard to tell from the previews and videos I've seen.

Uno Rush is like an action version of Uno. You have to arrange your cards while it's not your turn and when your turn hits, you play all cards you can that are arranged in order. Maybe I'm not explaining it well but there's a few videos of it on YouTube that'll show it off. It looks great.

Be proud of that score. I dumped you as a friend for awhile I was so sick of seeing that massive score on the leaderboards forever.

Ah ok. I was thinking of UNO Attack which i think had some device that flung cards at you or something.

I thought about dumping Troz (he's #1 on my list) but I haven't done so yet.

I'll definitely check out Galactrix and quite likely buy it; the others I'll try but probably won't buy.

I just bought Geometry Wars 2 a couple weeks ago (which means it will be on sale within the month...00). Question: I know I'm not the fastest hands in the east, but still, I'd like to know how in the holy hexagon do some of you people get those scores? I've struggled to hit 3 or 5 million on some game modes, and some of y'all are 7, 10, 15, 27 million. It doesn't even seem possible. Is there some strategy I'm missing that will help me?
Also, I've found that I usually do the best the first or second time I play a mode in a day, and my later plays are much worse. Anyone else have that experience?

Am about to post this in the PSN thread, but I just played the demo of Flock and did not enjoy it. From the videos I thought it looked cool and potentially fun, but it did nothing for me. Granted things could change from the demo I played to the actual release, but one of the biggest frustrations is the fact that you can't rotate the camera. You're locked into one perspective. It's also fairly slow moving, which is frustrating. It would be good if the slowmoving was a result of thinking or strategy, but rather the slow-moving is simply a result of the controls being unforgiving and having to slowly move your sheep/pigs/cattle and whatever else to the ship. (Which reminds me, there was one sort of "pinball" board. That was fun because it sped everything up and provided a real obstacle rather than "make sure they don't fall off the cliff.")

However, I will say the one fun thing I had with the game was the build your own level. The game then went from saving animals to putting them through whatever tortures I could. I will also say the graphics and sounds are great, but the gameplay is just meh. I'm sure some people will love it, but it will not be an instant purchase for me.

All this time later, and I still really enjoy playing this from time to time. Since I'm not obsessed anymore, I think my high score is going to stand forever as well, but you never know when that lucky run will sneak up on you.

I guess we'll soon see if our faint hopes of a 400 point price for Uno Rush will be crushed...

Yep. They seem to be going at this $10 pricing for UNO Rush all wrong. Uno was successful for two reasons, price and IP. Now that everyone already owns the original UNO and UNO Rush doesn't benefit from a $5 price tag both reasons why the original was successful are null and void for the new game.

I'm going to say you have tons of people trying out the demo, but very few actually pulling the trigger on it.

I played the crap out of UNO, but I don't think I can justify 800 points for Rush.

Well, it has been confirmed, Uno Rush is indeed 800 points. I certainly will try it out, but honestly it doesn't look very different from the original game and it seem a tad overpriced by compaison. Speaking for myself, I'd rather put 800 points towards Yatzee over a slight varaition of the Uno game I already have.
I'm not saying the demo can't convince me otherwise, but look at this footage and tell me if you see something I'm missing, because it looks a heck of a lot like a game of Uno to me.
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Oratorio Tangram controller mod.

Oratorio Tangram controller mod.

Well, they still support webcams (Xbox Live Vision Camera) so...

From MajorNelson:

Nothing for Geometry Wars 2?