Pocket Gamer: Mad Tracks was a relative success on Xbox 360 as a downloadable release from Load Inc. It was a simple to control racer which saw miniature cars shoot around often rollercoaster-like tracks in a myriad of locations.
Namco Bandai have grabbed the rights to bring it to iOS and their version manages to capture much of the original's appeal, albeit with a few caveats.
ThisGenGaming says "The weekly backwards compatibility titles for Xbox One continues, which also means the weekly leak."
I don't care for these games, but it is nice seeing more titles regularly updated on Xbox BC.
My system is backwards compatible all the way back to like 1977. That's cool though, at least you get something. (Not sarcasm, sony killing BC at least for PS2/PS1 games just so they can sell them back to you is inexcusable. Emulating the PS3 is hard because it was designed weird, so that's an understandable omission, granted one that was created by their short sightedness.)
Backwards compatibility is the reason why I'm keeping my Xbox One. I never owned a 360 so being able to play games like Alan Wake and Lost Odyssey (which I started today - finally!) is nice. It's the first time I've used the console since Quantum Break came out. I should have just bought a cheap 360 instead.
OXCGN:
"Microsoft has taken a leaf out of Valve's Steam with Major Nelson announcing Xbox Live's first ever "Inventory Blowout Sale". Ten Xbox Live Arcade titles at 50% off (give or take) for a week!
But beware: As any hardened Steamer will tell you, you're likely to buy a lot more than you'll ever play. So for the more economically sensitive gamers amongst us, OXCGN has bought them all so you don't have to! From 10/10 to 1/10, here is our rundown of what we hope is the first of many Inventory Blowout Sales to come."
Well the Sony has specials of the week for PSP GO here in Oz, and Steam always does...so it makes a lot of sense to discount XBLA titles (especially old ones) regularly, often, and in great numbers to promote sales.
I can see where this is heading for XboxLive.
Being privy to lots of press releases, there's a huge wave of taitles heading for the Arcade side of things on both XboxLive and PSN.
There's now more news coming from titles aimed at those two mediums than normal disc-based games.
This is showing the results of Microsoft's push for casual gamers and the family-gaming and social networking side of things.
they have pulled back heavily on advertizing for major disc-based games, allowing the 3rd party companies to do that, while MS focus almost solely on the Social-media medium.
I suspect by years end, the ratio will be 2/3rd arcade and 1/3rd disc-based titles being released across the board, or via digital distribution.
A worrying trend for retailers unless they change tactics, and also for those developers that rely on large data files that can only be stored on disc, irrespective of the type of disc.
We may well see smaller initial disc-based games appearing by years end, with several updates and expansions via digital download, which can only be used via an official game disc-based game in the machines.
Which sort of goes along with what EA CEO was hinting at earlier in March.
Eh, i was a bit disappointed with these, nothing really on sale i'd like. I have around 2000 spare points on my account that have been unused for quite a while now, Sony's PSP sale has been great though, bought a few games in that including Tekken 6 and a digital copy of God of war chains of olympus, on topic though.. i wouldn't even put the PSN or XBLA sales in the same league to call them 'steam-y' sales..
THESE are steamy sales:
http://eugn.co.uk/SteamSale... - and there were hundreds of other games on sale too.. these were just the specials for the day. Fantastic, and the do this sort of stuff on a title by title basis pretty much weekly, got Borderlands for £15 last weekend.
Following Sony's announcements of the April Foolishness Sale and PSP Favourites promotion earlier this week, Microsoft has today revealed a cost-cutting activity of their own. From today, eight top titles held on the Xbox 360's Xbox LIVE Arcade are available for half-price, and two further titles are set to be greatly reduced. These sale prices are limited however, available for only seven days.
... and nothing on that list really interests me. Bit of a disappointment.
When the hell are they finally gonna discount TrialsHD!?
Well, I'm partly glad they actually didn't lessen the prices of XBLA games I've been wanting for a while because I didn't take my 360 away with me over this week.
...it's not "inventory", if it's only available as a digital download. Just sayin'....