Castle Crashers, Galaga Legions, more on XBLA in 4-6 weeks

by Richard Mitchell { Jul 17th 2008 at 7:00PM }

During our guided demo of Microsoft's upcoming stable of XBLA games, Microsoft's Scott Austin informed us that all the games on display would be available in the next four to six weeks on Xbox Live Arcade. All of 'em. If you've been reading the impressions on Joystiq, you'll know that this a reason to be excited. For the record, the XBLA games being shown by Microsoft are:

We expected Microsoft to show off some cool XBLA games at E3, but we weren't expecting four to six weeks of win.

Tags: bionic-commando, bionic-commando-rearmed, braid, breaking, breakingnews, castle-crashers, e3, e3-08, e3-2008, e308, galaga, galaga-legions, geometry-wars, geometry-wars-2, xbla, xbox-live-arcade

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Marty @ Jul 17th 2008 7:14PM

I've been dying or some news on Castle Crashers for a while - that game looks awesome. Looking forward to playing it!

Supino @ Jul 17th 2008 7:17PM

if you could download just ONE of these, what would you get?

me: Geometry Wars 2

Thatoneguy64 @ Jul 17th 2008 7:20PM

Castle Crashers is the only right choice.

I already have Geometry Wars for my GW fix (of course I'm still getting GW2, but you said only one)

FSK405K @ Jul 17th 2008 7:25PM

It's literally too hard to pick. I've heard so much about Braid, but Geom Wars 2 looks insane! And of course, castle crashers....good thing they're cheap.

PSN & GAMERTAG: jorojoserojas - Wii FC: 0749-8609-3752-6926 @ Jul 17th 2008 7:32PM

Bionic Commando Rearmed. Way too many good memories of the original to pass this one up.

Sean @ Jul 17th 2008 7:34PM

Definitely not geometry wars 2 considering how punishing the first one was.

I'll download the trial for castle crashers.. it could be fun, it could be mindless button mashing. We'll see. Bionic Commando is a sure buy... no need for the trial version.

Zerozaki Ishiki @ Jul 17th 2008 11:44PM

Braid. Looks like it may actually be breathing new life into platforming - and there just aren't nearly enough good 2D platformers these days. Soul Bubbles, LostWinds...and that's basically it for the year so far.

NBA Kirkland @ Jul 17th 2008 7:21PM

Still no Load Runner. 360 Fanboy's prediction that it would be released next week was almost 2 years ago!...hehe

http://www.xbox360fanboy.com/2006/09/21/rumor-mystery-xbla-game-is-lode-runner/

arrrgh @ Jul 18th 2008 3:24PM

lode*

Arturo @ Jul 17th 2008 7:21PM

i guess castle crashers and geo wars 2 sort of help a bit in healing the deep cut from the wipeout hd nonsense

http://www.eurogamer.net/article.php?article_id=191929

FSK405K @ Jul 17th 2008 7:23PM

Meaning that the next three weeks' games are crap.

Cale @ Jul 17th 2008 7:31PM

not in 4-6 weeks...
in the next 4-6 weeks, as in starts next week

dark_inchworm @ Jul 17th 2008 8:11PM

At your expense, I had a hearty laugh.

FSK405K @ Jul 17th 2008 9:01PM

Oh good, looks like I need to read the articles instead of the post titles.

ZenGaijin @ Jul 17th 2008 7:26PM

CastleCrahers and Geometry Wars are what I'm most pumped for.

GlennFrank @ Jul 17th 2008 7:33PM

How about Dishwasher: Dead Samurai

I missed the demo but reaaaaaaallly want to play it

arrrgh @ Jul 18th 2008 3:27PM

it seemed like it was slightly unfinished. Some decent fun, but needs more polish

Mr.ESC @ Jul 17th 2008 7:33PM

Hells yeah Bionic Commando,Castle Crashers and Galaga.

The fact that Duke 3D and Megaman 9 aren't in that list makes me sad though.

PSN & GAMERTAG: jorojoserojas - Wii FC: 0749-8609-3752-6926 @ Jul 17th 2008 7:35PM

Somehow, Braid has slipped under my radar (and I frequent gaming sites several times a day!) so I haven't heard much about it....thus, my interest in it is zero. I'll look out for info, though.

But the REST of the list...wow. I'm going to be spending a lot of virtual money in the next few weeks. Holy crap!

*I like to call these downloads as virtual money so that I don't think about how much it's all actually costing me. =)