This Wednesday: Droplitz and Garou: Mark of the Wolves hit XBLA

by Richard Mitchell { Jun 22nd 2009 at 4:15PM }

It's a twofer on XBLA this week, with a new puzzle game and an old fighting game. The puzzle game would be Droplitz, which has players twiddling dials and collecting small, "dinky little balls of indeterminate stuff." We can't help but be reminded a bit of Pipe Mania. Keep in mind that Droplitz is a single-player game only, with the full game running 800

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The second game is Garou: Mark of the Wolves, also known as Fatal Fury: Mark of the Wolves, which was announced for XBLA by SNK late last week. The game is a port of the original arcade title -- also remembered as one of the last good Dreamcast games -- and features online play for two players. It can be yours for 800

Gallery: Droplitz

Gallery: Garou: Mark of the Wolves (XBLA)

Tags: atlus, blitz-arcade, droplitz, garou, garou-mark-of-the-wolves, snk, snk-playmore, xbla, xblawednesday

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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Rhamsey @ Jun 22nd 2009 4:20PM

i thought droplitz came out already. i guess it was just a video. oh well, i was hoping that this week was turtles in time, but thats not for like a month.

Storm Eagle @ Jun 22nd 2009 4:24PM

It's so weird to see Terry without his traditional baseball cap and red jacket.

emagius @ Jun 22nd 2009 4:56PM

That's Rock Howard. He's got two dads -- Geese and Terry.

emagius @ Jun 22nd 2009 4:58PM

@self
Darn it. Thought OP was referring to the banner, not the in-game screenshot. We've seen MotW Terry in some recent KoFs as well.

cuteSAVAGE @ Jun 22nd 2009 4:34PM

Ga-rou: Mark... of the Wolves!

Sweetness.

Hydrophobicfish @ Jun 22nd 2009 4:40PM

Yay, Droplitz. Here's to hoping (and I don't see why it wouldn't...) that it's coming out on the PSN Thursday as well!

6_h!t-combo @ Jun 22nd 2009 5:04PM

For those of you with a 360 and an interest in fighting games, MotW is more than worth it.. And online, too.. Im jealous of you guys now..

Flankenstein @ Jun 22nd 2009 5:21PM

unless you only have the standard controller.

lord thanatos @ Jun 22nd 2009 5:44PM

yeah, hopefully this ends up on psn, oh- but then i'd have to worry about CRT scaling issues. goddam sony and their decent fighting controller.

oh wait

this will not be pretty with those fugged up 360 dpads. when the heck is mad cats offical wireless pads coming out !?!?!!?!? then i can get all my fighting games on 360- the system that SCALES PROPERLY GODDAMN YOU SONY

lord thanatos @ Jun 22nd 2009 5:46PM

oh, yeah i still have the original dreamcast release, along with the last blade 2. those games are still fucking GOLD

Neowyrm @ Jun 22nd 2009 6:16PM

That game looks like it's called Dr. Splitz.

rruss79 @ Jun 22nd 2009 6:19PM

Any fighting game on the 360 or Dual Shock is pretty much worthless. If you are really into fighting games then, you probably already have a fighting stick.

Shattercross @ Jun 22nd 2009 10:14PM

Speak for yourself, at the Street Fighter 4 tourney 4 people brought sticks-

none of them were in the finals.

The Dualshock is more than adequate for fighters and I heard if you take a dremel to a gamestop brand 360 controller you can make the d-pad halfway decent.