XBLA Threefer this week: Shred Nebula, PvN Dodgeball, Gin Rummy

I think castle crashers will be on the top of my XBLA list for a little bit longer.

None of the above. I'm still waiting for Castle Crashers to get patched so I can actually play it online.

*humph*

I'm going to continue lambasting Richard in Castle Crashers, personally. :) Oh, sure..busy week because of PAX, blah blah blah...

Purple Cobras....

PvN sounds like a fun arena-battle game that just HAPPENS to have dodgeball in it. As is to say, it sounds like it could be fun, whether you like dodgeball or not.

Shred Nebula looks very well designed, sounds to offer alot of well thought-out features, and actually sounds like it'll have DEPTH. Sounds like a cult classic waiting to happen.

Gin Rummy? Yay? Heh heh, well this appeases the 400 point crowd, and I'll give it a shot...

I still think Poker Smash was a pretty fun game. I wish the let you use more than 1 skin in the offline VS mode. That simple feature took the Multiplayer-with-physical-friends aspect of the game a lot less appealing than it should have been... especially since I loved the various songs and stage designs in the game so much.

So is [img]http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/xbox.joystiq.com/media/2007/11/microsoftpointslogosmall.gif [/img] the Official symbol for Microsoft Points now? I would have picked something more P-ish...

@ MC DoubleDef

It's a perfectly valid question, but yes, my NAT is Open. I haven't got to the point of running an Ethernet cable the length of my apartment to see if taking the wifi out of the loop aids it yet. It shouldn't as all the other games work just fine online.

Eugh, I'm probably alone in this, but I cannot stand the British game developer take on the anime/manga art style. Sudeki was i think where I first encountered it, and it made me want to claw my eyes out. Arcadian Warriors on XBLA was the next major British developer bastardization of the style I ran into... and now PvN Dodgeball... which I would love to give a shot... but they ruined it with that awful art.

And British game devs or would-be game devs reading this... PLEASE, just stop it! If you really really feel that your game absolutely MUST have an anime style to it... hire an artist from another country; I don't know why you guys always blow the anime/manga style, but you do... it's clearly NOT meant for your hands, I am sorry.

If you loved SubSpace, you'll enjoy Shred Nebula.

And I'll probably be picking up Gin Rummy. It's only $5 and it's one card game I really excel at (Cribbage is the other.)

Shred Nebula reads like a lot of fun. I checked out the videos and it looks solid.