RoboBlitz hitting Xbox Live Arcade this week

I have been seeing alot about this game for some time now, cant wait to download the demo, 1200pts though thats about £10.00 GBP so it had better be good

WOWOW! NOT THIS ARTICLE. BUT I JUST SAW THE NEW HALO 3 TRAILER AND IT WAS SIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIICK! OK WOW

Random Question but ...

Does anyone know if a standard USB 2.0 WIFI adaptor will work in the 360 instead of the Microsoft-made one?

Thanks,
lou

No cred for sending the news in, huh? :(

LOU: Nope.

"I have been seeing alot about this game for some time now, cant wait to download the demo, 1200pts though thats about £10.00 GBP so it had better be good"

Why not try the PC demo now?

I guess this is somehow related to Xbox Live because it will eventually end up on Marketplace. Okay, fine it's not that related to the topic, but I felt like letting you guys know as soon as it happened. The commercial didn't even seem like it was for Halo 3 at first, which is why it felt a lot shorter than a minute.
*mild spoilers*
You see the shadows of what seems like two kids by themselves on an island. They are wondering what it's like for everyone else outside the island. It was kind of hard to hear what they were saying, but it was something along the lines of "I'm sure everyone else is wondering about us as well". I think.

Anyway all of a sudden you cut to a desert where you here gunshots firing off in the background. You see Master Chief's helmet on the ground, and a guy grabs it. Then he grabs a gun, and starts running. All of a sudden he throws what looks like a grenade on the ground, but it forms a shield bubble. Some sort of laser gets shot at him, but it gets deflected. Then he keeps on running, until he reaches the top of a hill. He leans over and sees a whole army facing his direction and marching forward. He jumps down right at them.

The screen cuts to "Halo 3 Finish the Fight"

My description isn't perfect but I'm sure you'll get to understand it more once it gets put on YouTube. I just wanted to put out an initial report.

@5

I just dont play games on my laptop I used to when I had a PC but that was along time ago now when Unreal T and Quake Area were out, Im purely 360 or DS now. Have you played it is it anygood?

"available this Wednesday, December 6, at 1AM PST."

I've been able to buy it for a while.

"Save the Robot, Save the World"

Guess some one is a Heroes fan...

Tried the demo. This game is terrible. That is all.

Note, though, that the PC version does require a pretty recent video card. They didn't bother to support cards even two-years old in Unreal Engine 3, which is kind of sad considering that RoboBlitz's gameplay isn't exactly revolutionary.

All right! Another indie game! Maybe the era of crappy old coin-op titles is over.

My £'s go a lot further on STEAM than they do on XBLA.

"Does anyone know if a standard USB 2.0 WIFI adaptor will work in the 360 instead of the Microsoft-made one?"
No a standard USB 2.0 WIFI adaptor will not work. But you can use a wireless bridge or gaming adaptor that have there own power & connect via the network port.

Joystiq, don't ignore another news-worthy aspect of this game. This is the first XBLA game (that I'm aware of) to make use of procedurally-generated textures. This allowed the developers to bring the size of the game down from 500+ megabytes of information down to the below-50 megabytes required by XBLA in order to be distributed.

All the textures in this game are stored as algorithms rather than images. This is important not only for download-able games like this one, but also for future high-def games. The ability to compress textures this much asks the question whether we seriously need the newer hi-capacity formats being offered. Blu-Ray and HD-DVD may just not be necessary.

More info:
http://www.bit-tech.net/news/2006/10/04/Game_file_sizes_could_soon_be_70_smaller

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Procedural_generation

Cheers!

14 is right! the signifigance of this game is that it uses procedural texturing and makes it look awesome!!!

"Another new franchise is arriving on Xbox Live Arcade this week, one that notably boasts robots, explosions, and in certain circumstances, exploding robots." Best line ever in a Joystiq article.