Despite no XBOX Live Arcade release today, the XBOX Live Marketplace has still been updated. Here's the full list for Wednesday 30th April 2008:
Name: Chessmaster Live Rayman Raving Rabbids 3D animated chess set
Price: 150 Microsoft Points
Availability: Everywhere
Name: Alone in the Dark Fire Tech Demo
Price: Free
Availability: Everywhere
Turok Gamer Pics Pack 5 - Wolf Pack
Price: 150 Microsoft Points
Availability: Everywhere
Alone in the Dark developer Pieces Interactive has been hit with layoffs a month after its release, as per the latest information.
That genuinely, genuinely sucks. The reboot has clear flaws, but it really felt like a solid first step for this team to receive *greater* investment.
That's standard. Teams are together for a Project, after its done some..and sometimes most devs are fired until the next Project is in the works and people are needed again. Only the core members stay in the time between the hot phase of the game development.
VGChartz's Lee Mehr: "In one sense, it feels strange to even think Pieces Interactive had big shoes to fill with this series' legacy. Given what's come before, did it really? And yet, even when considering the last two flops over a two-decade span, there's still something about Alone in the Dark emblazoned on a title screen that carries a sense of revered history. In that respect, perhaps this reboot's best accomplishment is in honoring that spirit through its inventive world. It's also fair to emphasize knocks against its survival-horror design, some puzzle-solving, and so on; it certainly won't be considered a trendsetter like the 1992 classic. Still, the amount of goodwill wedded to its brighter qualities makes for something that dawdles the line between unfortunately-flawed and impressively-enticing."
The new Alone in the Dark remake doesn't do anything especially noteworthy, but that doesn't mean it's bad. It's just... cromulent.
Woo-hoo!!! But it's so lonely in here....LOL
3 hours later and still no other comments lol!
thank god for those picture packs..