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PSA: Xbox Live Indie Games Summer Uprising is go

by Richard Mitchell on Aug 22nd 2011 9:00PM

Just a quick reminder that the Xbox Live Indie Games Summer Uprising has officially begun. The final two games have been chosen by the community, making for a total of ten new games to be released over the coming two weeks. A new title will be released every weekday, starting today with side-scrolling slasher Raventhorne.

Each game in the promotion will cost $3, with the $1 exceptions of Battle High: San Bruno and Cute Things Dying Violently. You can see each game in action in the trailer above and find the complete release schedule after the break.

Week One

Mon Aug 22 – Raventhorne
Tues Aug 23 – Battle High: San BrunoWed
Aug 24 – Cute Things Dying Violently
Thurs Aug 25 – T.E.C. 3001
Fri Aug 26 – Doom and Destiny

Week Two

Mon Aug 29 – Take Arms
Tues Aug 30 – SpeedRunner HD
Wed Aug 31 – Train Frontier Express
Thurs Sept 1 – Chester
Fri Sept 2 – Redd: The Lost Temple

Source: Summer Uprising

Tags: microsoft, release-date, summer-uprising, xbox, xbox-live, xbox-live-indie-games, xbox-live-indie-games-summer-uprising

Reader Comments (37)

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I feel so bad, but I'm only interested in maybe one title out of all of this.

@Magnalon Yeah, Train Frontier Express sounds like the only exhilarating title.

I'm sure the games are great, but the song for the video is just too awesome. I absolutely must know the composer

@AkumaFTW

Ask, and you shall receive :)

Enjoy!

Want the Song?
http://soundcloud.com/zack-parrish/the-uprising-final-mix

Original Music composed by Zack Parrish
http://soundcloud.com/zack-parrish
Guitars/Drums arranged and performed by Anthony Morgan
http://www.youtube.com/anthonywkmorgan

Some of these looked cool, but no achievements means "no buy". And no, I'm not an "achievement whore", but it's Xbox 360...there's just supposed to be achievements...it's fun...right?

@SlyBeast

You're not an achievement whore, yet you won't purchase a game because there are no achievements...

See why some might have a hard time buying this?

@SlyBeast
Right.

@SlyBeast

Well by your logic you will play no past games then.

Gaming is suppose to be about fun. Not gaining virtual awards to make feel like the fun was earned,

@SlyBeast you are an achievement whore and basically everything that is wrng with "today's gamer". I'm sure your epeen represented in number form is huge, whore.

OP: Your Ignorant. These are great games and you should feel ashamed that you are refusing to play them because they dont have achivements.

I Like Achivements as much as the next guy, but they dont make or break a game.

@SlyBeast

Wow guys, I had no idea you'd be so butthurt about it. Friendly fire! I'm a gamer too! I wonder if you're this all this rude in person?

@SlyBeast

If every retail game from this point forward had no achievements, I wouldn't care one bit. Maybe it's because I grew up playing games for the sake of playing games... The comment was simply just contradictory, that's all.

@SlyBeast just as rude, dirty whore.

Darn. I wish we had the Indie Games Marketplace in Rep. Of Ireland... I'm a very sad panda right now :-(

Doom and Destiny looks pretty sweet!

@Uncle Jesse

Yeah, it's the only one that looks interesting to me.

Doom and Destiny is the greatest title of all time.

Gonna get Battle High: San BrunoWed tomorrow since I've had 120 msp left over... looks pretty fun! will also pick up the train game and the jrpg looking one. Maybe the others but I'm mostly going to be playing Deus Ex 3 when I get it that and save the indie games to play mostly on weekends, since my next College semester starts August 29th. Darn school when awesome games start coming out!!! D:

Doom and Destiny looks like it was made with RPG Maker VX using the Default pallet. I should know, I have used it before.

Yeah I can tell from looking at some of the pixels and seeing a few VXs in my time

The only one of those games that actually has current gen graphics is T.E.C. 3001. Plus, it looks like it plays soooo smoothly. Definitely picking that up. And yes, I am a graphics whore and I'm not ashamed to admit it!

Got to say both the games and the way they promotion is being handled seems much better than last year.

I'm getting Doom and Destiny, Take Arms, T.E.C. 3001(this looks like Vanquishes little brother) and maybe Raventhorne. Can't wait.

The one major problem I have with the Indie games is that you must be signed into XBL. I have the old model without the network adapter, and there have been plenty of times when I was downloading something from my computer or PSN and couldn't play any of the indie games I wanted to.

3 or 4 good looking titles there. The train game being the best of the bunch.

Indie games would sell way more if each game had 5000 gamerscore

In for 10 !

I meant 50

@BlakeofT

Lol, Okay for a second there I couldn't tell if you were joking or just being greedy. But I completely agree, there is no reason why Indie games couldn't have 100 to 200 points. I don't think it should be mandatory as I've heard programming achievements can be painful, but it would be nice.

I'm sure I'll get some s#$t over this, but... zero interest.

@goat biscuit

Yeah man, don't you dare oppose the popular opinions here!

Let the games begin!

San Bruno represent!

I've had San Bruno for awhile--it's a lot of fun. Solid fighting game for an Indie title.

These games are giving me an uprising in my pants.

Just a quick reminder that you need to be online full-time to play XBL indie games. It's a deal breaker for me. Your mileage may vary.

As much as I hate to say it, all of these games look like great calling cards for the devs, but none are anything I'd actually want to play...

Speedrunner and TEC may be the only ones I'm interested in.

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