| Mail |

You might also like: WoW Insider, Massively, and more

More Sites You Might Like

/ Register

Joystiq

X3F TV -- XBLA in Brief: Hasbro Family Game Night

by Richard Mitchell on Mar 18th 2009 3:00PM

The shortest, easiest way to say it: Hasbro Family Game Night lets you play Hasbro board games on your TV. There's not much more to say, really. Oh, each game will cost you 800

. Before the anger starts flowing, you should know that most of these games cost more in the real world. Check out the latest XBLA in Brief and decide if Hasbro Family Game Night deserves a shelf in your digital game closet.

Download Hasbro Family Game Night

[iTunes] Subscribe to X3F TV directly in iTunes.
[Zune] Subscribe to the X3F TV directly (Zune Marketplace link coming soon).
[RSS] Add the X3F TV feed to your RSS aggregator and have the show delivered automatically.
[M4V] Download the M4V directly.

Tags: arcade, board-games, ea, electronic-arts, hasbro, hasbro-family-game-night, live-arcade, x3f-tv, xbla, xbla-in-brief, xbox-live-arcade

Reader Comments (35)

At that price I think not. There are better arcade games/game add ons for the points. The Pitt is only days away for starters!!

I would be all over it if the entire collection cost 20 bucks. Then yeah, it would be great. Even 25. No more, really.

ripoffffff

How can they charge 800 points for a game like Yahtzee when Geometry Wars 2 is also 800 points? Seriously.

uhhh because they both ridiculously simple?

Ripoff! ps2 Family Game Night $20, Wii Family Game Night $30

Exactly why I won't get them. Total price for all seven on the XBLA is $70, but it's that cheap on other systems? No thanks.

Wow ... I can't believe these are $10 each!! I would MAYBE pay $5 each for the ones that I really liked.

DLC is just getting to be way too expensive.

Where's Trucky from Pootie Tang when you need him to say, "And each game is 800 points!"?

I would NEVER buy any of these. I love scrabble but for 10 bucks I think not... Even if they dropped it down to 5 bucks I MIGHT pick up scrabble but nothing else...

I would get it if all four games cost 10 bucks, but I don't see that happening.

This is just silly, and ultimately an experiment from a company to see if there are enough stupid people digitally buying to get rich off of.
Shame on you E.A.

And I'm willing to bet that there are enough people (stupid or otherwise) who'll buy these that EA / Hasbro turn a profit on them. I suspect the pricetag of development for these was not very high.

Remember kids, you're reading a videogaming blog. You are *not* the target audience for these games.

imo these games are better when you are playing them for real (instead of using a controller and sitting in front of a tv) and with people around you.

not everyone is lucky enough as us to have real face-to-face friends who will play boardgames.

I am gonna get scrabble, connect four, and battle ship for the online purpose & for me and the wife to play. 30 bucks..ah well

Listen...I'm a 35 year old gaming vet. I have scrabble and it's cool. Ten bucks IS a lot of dough too. What EA NEEDS to do is get a better Monopoly and put THAT (400 points please) on Live..

I'll chime in here as well; it's way too expensive. I'd only consider it if all the games were available for 800-1600 points.

The only game i'd even consider spending 800 points on is scrabble, but its not even available outside the US so I cant even do that.

I have Yahtzee on my phone. It was FREE.

i think if hasbro priced this at 400 points a game and 1600 points for the whole thing, they could have made a lot more sales, in total having more total revenue even with reduced revenue per sale. but hey, the marketing and accounting experts must know more about xbla pricing than i do.

My main problem with this, and there are a few, is the whole achievement thing......even if I did get all the available games for this, I'm still only gonna be able to get a maximum 1200/1400 gamerscore, because of the lack of Scrabble.

All these are overpriced. 400 pts and I'd be more likely to get them.

As far as being cheaper, six dice cost $2 and the score sheets are free online and most yard sales will let these go 2/$1.

Mr. Potato creeps the shit out of me. Why not use Buzz Light Year instead?

Disney.

rofl ----^^^^^!

I bought Battleship last night it was fun but I still don't understand the price tag.

Will most of the target audience even know that this game exists?

One thing I have noticed missing from every review is the lack of computer opponents.

i tried the trial for a few minutes last night and you're right, i didn't see a way to play a computer AI opponent on Scrabble...seems like a negative at this price...

We have the dice, and little cup, and paper score cards, and a few pins. I'll just continue to use those..... and kick my wifes butt!!! yeah!

We actually have some pens too. Not just pins.

Stop being so damn lazy Joystiq and change the name of X3F TV, if your gonna change the domain change everything tards

This is the Xbox 360 Fancast TV

It's criminal that there's no option for an AI opponent. If you're playing 3 other people on Xbox Live and someone drops, the game just ends without even declaring a winner. This has happened to me twice after putting 1/2 hour into Scrabble games. C'mon EA, fix this! I bought Scrabble and Yahtzee assuming some sort of computer opponent. I'm not sure I would have had I known about the lack of an AI opponent.

so there is no offline mode at all? i bring my xbox to another house for the marketplace downloads because i dont have i high speed in my area..

would i even be able to play this game? ....i lost 200points on community blackjack the same way....u have to be online to play...

Sorry, you must be logged in to leave a comment.

Breaking News

X3F TV -- XBLA in Brief: Hasbro Family Game Night

Reader Comments (35)

Posted: Mar 18th 2009 3:22PM (Unverified) said

Posted: Mar 18th 2009 4:31PM (Unverified) said

Posted: Mar 18th 2009 3:24PM (Unverified) said

Posted: Mar 18th 2009 3:25PM Omega Aero said

Posted: Mar 18th 2009 11:48PM petepete said

Posted: Mar 18th 2009 3:28PM FlashbackX01 said

Posted: Mar 18th 2009 3:45PM RMM said

Posted: Mar 18th 2009 3:30PM Talus said

Posted: Mar 18th 2009 3:48PM yo Naturale said

Posted: Mar 18th 2009 3:48PM (Unverified) said

Posted: Mar 18th 2009 3:51PM ccc said

Posted: Mar 18th 2009 5:22PM Jonman said

Posted: Mar 18th 2009 4:02PM x Prime x said

Posted: Mar 18th 2009 11:50PM petepete said

Posted: Mar 18th 2009 4:12PM (Unverified) said

Posted: Mar 24th 2009 4:57PM dj books said

Posted: Mar 18th 2009 4:14PM Chappy said

Posted: Mar 18th 2009 4:20PM Kinetic said

Posted: Mar 18th 2009 5:08PM (Unverified) said

Posted: Mar 18th 2009 6:28PM mynk said

Posted: Mar 19th 2009 6:38AM (Unverified) said

Posted: Mar 18th 2009 10:33PM Reddjoey said

Posted: Mar 18th 2009 11:28PM (Unverified) said

Posted: Mar 19th 2009 11:48AM HazyCloud said

Posted: Mar 24th 2009 5:01PM dj books said

Posted: Mar 19th 2009 7:15AM (Unverified) said

Posted: Mar 19th 2009 7:33AM Cube said

Posted: Mar 19th 2009 10:17AM txhoudini said

Posted: Mar 20th 2009 9:47AM ChomskyKnows said

Posted: Mar 19th 2009 9:32AM (Unverified) said

Posted: Mar 19th 2009 9:33AM (Unverified) said

Posted: Mar 19th 2009 10:14AM (Unverified) said

Posted: Mar 19th 2009 2:32PM robotoid said

Posted: Mar 19th 2009 12:20PM (Unverified) said

Posted: Mar 26th 2009 8:04AM Firebug2009 said

Info

Description

MSRP

Release Date

Genre

Developer

Publisher

Rating

Breaking News

Double Fine Kickstarter passes $1 million in under 24 hours, breaking yet another record

Featured Stories

WRUP: All the Reckoning

Xbox Live Indie Gems: Nyan Cat Adventure

Dark Side 'Cause It Looks Cool: The Failings of Moral Choice in Games

The most popular postsin the last 7 days

Engadget

TUAW

Massively

WoW

The most popular posts
in the last 7 days