Sorry, I just saw "Location: Formelry known as "orangecrush18" - still legal though" and I literally laughed out loud. Do you still have to wear that badge?

No, I just thought it was kind of funny the way it is.

I seem to remember a pretty good site that had a complete listing of all the Xbox Live Indie Games with reviews/ranks showing the most popular/best received games, but I can't find it. Any ideas? I got some points burning a hole in my pocket.

Oh, Risk - Fuck you. Why isn't there a timeout for when some asshole drops out of the game when it's his turn to place armies? Oh, no instead you just sit there and wait for the rest of us to concede. Fucking brutal. And this dude cries and quits because he only had 3 armies protecting his entrance to Australia, where each only had 1. Thanks trading in cards for allowing me to clean this dude's clock.

I also love how if you are hosting and get eliminated, if you try to exit the game it gives you a warning that you are probably gonna be an asshole and ruin the game for everyone because they don't know how to code properly.

Wow that is ridiculously dumb.

That's lame. I'm trying to find who to speak to about submitting bug reports.

South Park Tower Defense is currently 400 points.

in for deathspank tomorrow - dungeon crawling, loot, and humor! "unicorn poop - smells like innocence".

Game Informer reviews Limbo in the new issue, gave it a 9.0 and dubbed it Game Of The Month (second time a downloadable game gets the honor and the second time in as many months as Joe Danger won it last month). They say it runs about 5-6 hrs on first play through but has moderately high replayability, which sort of surprised me. Either way, I'm psyched for this (and only this) SotA title.

So, Destination Arcade was supposed to hit tomorrow but it was pushed back a week to coincide with SoA. Ok, fine, that makes some sense (I mean, who doesn't want as many variables at once when a promising game like Limbo is released?)

Now, according to Major Nelson (according to Joystiq), DA will ONLY be active during SoA. Which is to say July 21st - August 18th. WTF?

http://www.joystiq.com/2010/07/13/de...mer-of-arcade/

Wow, that's.. dumb (the active time thing).

Game Room is getting a major update today (active tomorrow) with new features or something.

"Quick update from the team: The servers will be down shortly starting at approx 11am PT in prep for an update that will be going live on Wednesday. We'll notify you before they go down, as well as when they're back up. Hit the link for further info and thanks for your patience!"

Also, despite my XBLA disinterest lately, I just found out Deathspank might be a game I'll like. Limbo, not so much, it looks like it's trying too hard to be the next indie darling. But I will giev the demo a run to see if the gameplay actually delivers (the previews don't seem so interesting to me, for whatever reason).

I read about that Game Room update. Sounds promising, but it's probably just adding support for a new system or developer since the core engine seems tied to the expansion packages.

They desperately need to add online play.

They need a "New Releases" section of the store. I hate having to know the 5 new titles released this week and wade through the entire list to get there.

I mentioned the "medal meta-game" a week or so ago. One thing you can do from the "My Profile" page is push X to see all the medals you've collected. That's great, but please only show me the games in my collection. I really don't need to see all the blank spaces for the titles I don't and will never own.

Give me a way to view the cabinet art without a friend's fucking useless avatar standing there!

Game Room and Destination Arcade: Two great ideas that Microsoft is just fucking up royally.

Some Namco games are on the way, yes? You could be correct.

I would LOVE to see Atari 5200 on there, won't happen though.

Probably won't happen for various reasons.

Um, hell yes.

Post this on their Facebook page, or reply in the thread they linked to there.

Eh, half-assed seems more appropriate.

Game Room is a major disappointment. Don't really believe that Destination Arcade thing yet -- let's wait and see on that one. Besides, that feature was never for us anyway.

I'm curious to see how Deathspank turned out. There was a detailed preview in POTM this month and it looked pretty cool.

Just bought Monkey Island 2 last night. I know it'll be cheaper in a couple of months, but my daughter loved playing the first game with movie and was excited to play this one right away as well. The way I look at it, I could see Toy Story 3 and Despicable Me a lot cheaper in a couple of months as well, but there's some value in getting to see them now.

http://majornelson.com/archive/2010/...of-arcade.aspx

Granted it isn't for us (as we've already said), but then exactly who is it for if they're pulling it? If it's meant as a public beta, just say so. Don't say it's only available for a short period of time.

He's posted wrong information so many times. I''m taking a wait & see approach here despite what he said.

edit: He's updated things, as I expected.

I tried the demo of Death Spank tonight on the PS3 (yes, a PSN game with a demo at launch - I was shocked too!). I really liked it. You know all those people who were describing it as Diablo-meets-Monkey Island? Well, sometimes it's better to be right than original because that's exactly what it feels like. It has a cartoony look, gameplay that feels like Diablo (or Torchlight, minus the item-selling dog) and very humorous Monkey Island-like exchanges, with very well done voice acting (which suprised me). There were several LOL moments in the demo. I certainly would prefer to get this on the 360 over the PS3, but I was tempted to buy it right there. I think it'll be fun, especailly in online multiplayer (which I think it supports) edit - multiplayer is only one person local co-op, per IGN review. It looks to be a very long game as well. The demo has a 30 minute timer and that time just flew, though it seemed silly to continue on quests when I knew I wasn't getting it for that system and didn't want to repeat it all again. I bet a lot of people will buy the game right from demo right away just to keep on playing the story.

It was a strange decision to put this game out a mere week after Monkey Island 2 since they have such a similar sense of humor (and the same writer, I believe). In any case, this is a top-notch downloadable game, it seems. I'm not 100% sold tonight, but I'm certainly leaning that way. Why are there so many good games out right now after ten months of almost uniformly unimpressive XBLA releases? Suddenly, I feel compelled to buy a new full-priced game every week. Most at a 1200 price point to boot! WTF???

IGN video review (PS3 version)
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Thanks for the preview, I'll probably give the demo a run early next week when the internet is turned on at the new place.

I loved the Death Spank demo as well and it definitely had that Monkey Island style of humor.

Strangely enough Death Spank isn't up on the Marketplace this morning, though the other new XBLA game Deadliest Warrior is. No word from Major Nelson yet.

Here is the market place link to download Deathspank

download link

Sounds great. I have a pretty hefty stack of games right now and I may wait for a sale on this one.