Joystiq http://www.joystiq.com Joystiq http://www.joystiq.com/media/feedlogo.gif Joystiq http://www.joystiq.com en-us Copyright 2008 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/This Wednesday: 'Elements of Destruction' and 'Sea Life Safari' on XBLAhttp://www.joystiq.com/2008/06/16/this-wednesday-elements-of-destruction-and-sea-life-safari/http://www.joystiq.com/2008/06/16/this-wednesday-elements-of-destruction-and-sea-life-safari/http://www.joystiq.com/2008/06/16/this-wednesday-elements-of-destruction-and-sea-life-safari/#commentsFiled under:

Frozen Codebase, the developer of one of XBLA's worst-reviewed (and likely soon to be delisted) titles, Screwjumper, is back this week, begging for forgiveness in the form of Elements of Destruction. (Our condolences to all two of you who were eagerly awaiting a Screwjumper 2.) The dev's sophomore effort has players unleashing earthquakes, tornadoes, and other natural disaster nastiness as someone who paid 800 MS points for Screwjumper a mad scientist. It runs 800 MS points ($10), but remember these two words: trial version.

Moving on, Sierra Online has some family fare on tap in the form of Sea Life Safari. Although other underwater exploration games have surfaced this generation, Sierra's toe-in-the-pool effort looks to be on the shallow end if you're any kind of serious gamer. The game lets kids and their parents poke around under the waves and snap photos of what they find. It's another 800 MS point ($10) release, but, given how basic it seems, we're not quite sure how many folks are going to like the tuna that.

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Gallery: Sea Life Safari (XBLA)



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Gallery: Elements of Destruction (XBLA)

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]]>Elements-of-DestructionSea-Life-SafariXBLAXBLAWednesdayRandy Nelson2008-06-16T21:44:00+00:00Frozen Codebase, Vicious Engine liplock over Elements of Destructionhttp://www.joystiq.com/2008/04/08/frozen-codebase-vicious-engine-liplock-over-elements-of-destruc/http://www.joystiq.com/2008/04/08/frozen-codebase-vicious-engine-liplock-over-elements-of-destruc/http://www.joystiq.com/2008/04/08/frozen-codebase-vicious-engine-liplock-over-elements-of-destruc/#commentsFiled under: , ,


The bottle no longer spinning, its narrow mouth points squarely at Vicious Cycle as the company's middleware solution is taken in hand by developer Frozen Codebase to the closet for a little lovin'. The Green Bay, Wisconsin-based studio selected Vicious Cycle's increasingly popular (not to mention educational) Vicious Engine to power its upcoming XBLA title Elements of Destruction.

As the title suggests, Elements of Destruction will focus heavily on blowin' stuff up using "spectacularly destructive powers of nature." The game follows last year's Screwjumper and marks the second XBLA release from the studio, which was founded by industry veteran Ben Geisler and is staffed by vets from such companies as Raven Software, Radical Entertainment, and GarageGames. As with Screwjumper, Elements of Destruction will be released by THQ -- as soon as they can get that closet door open.

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]]>elements-of-destructionelementsofdestructionfrozen-codebasefrozencodebasescrewjumpervicious-cyclevicious-engineviciouscycleviciousengineJason Dobson2008-04-08T16:30:00+00:00Screwjumper descends onto XBLA Nov. 14http://www.joystiq.com/2007/11/07/screwjumper-descends-onto-xbla-nov-14/http://www.joystiq.com/2007/11/07/screwjumper-descends-onto-xbla-nov-14/http://www.joystiq.com/2007/11/07/screwjumper-descends-onto-xbla-nov-14/#commentsFiled under: ,

Screwjumper, part of THQ's Xbox Live Arcade lineup which caught us off guard a couple weeks ago, is ready to drop onto XBLA November 14. As you can see from the video above, Screwjumper gameplay involves dropping down a giant mineshaft, defusing bombs and racking up bonuses along the way. The single player mode features four different selectable characters and 20 levels. There's also a two-player offline multiplayer mode and support for four players across Xbox Live.

The game was created by Frozen Codebase, an indie studio in lovely Green Bay, Wisconsin, made up of designers and artists from companies you've definitely heard of. Frozen Codebase is currently working on another announced XBLA game called Elements of Destruction, also being published by THQ.

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]]>elements-of-destructionscrewjumperthqxblaxbox360Alexander Sliwinski2007-11-07T14:55:00+00:00