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Through November 29, North American PSN users will be able to get After Burner Climax for $5, and Genesis classics Streets of Rage 2, Comix Zone, and Golden Axe for $2.99 each. Sega's XBLA sale starts November 22 and runs through November 28, and offers 50% discounts on Crazy Taxi (sale price 400 Points), Sega Rally Online Arcade (400 Points), Streets of Rage 2 (200), Outrun Online Arcade (400), Happy Tree Friends (400), and Phantasy Star 2 (200).

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JoystiqLet's go save some crazy money, with Sega PSN/XBLA sales originally appeared on Joystiq on Wed, 16 Nov 2011 23:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Permalink | Email this | Comments]]>after-burner-climaxcomix-zonecrazy-taxigolden-axehappy-tree-friendsmicrosoftoutrun-online-arcadephantasy-star-2playstationps3psnsegasega-rally-online-arcadestreets-of-rage-2xblaxboxWed, 16 Nov 2011 23:30:00 EST<![CDATA[Happy Tree Friends branch out to iPhone]]>http://www.joystiq.com/2009/12/17/happy-tree-friends-branch-out-to-iphone/http://www.joystiq.com/2009/12/17/happy-tree-friends-branch-out-to-iphone/http://www.joystiq.com/2009/12/17/happy-tree-friends-branch-out-to-iphone/#comments Fact: Many serial killers experiment on animals in their early years.

Fact: Happy Tree Friends: Slap Happy allows you to abuse an adorable animal on your iPhone/iPod Touch for 99¢.

Therefore: Happy Tree Friends: Slap Happy in the hands of a child increases the likelihood they'll become a serial killer.

We could totally do our own Byron Report.

JoystiqHappy Tree Friends branch out to iPhone originally appeared on Joystiq on Thu, 17 Dec 2009 00:25:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Permalink | Email this | Comments]]>happy-tree-friendshappy-tree-friends-slap-happyThu, 17 Dec 2009 00:25:00 EST<![CDATA[X3F TV -- XBLA in Brief: Happy Tree Friends and Ticket to Ride]]>http://www.joystiq.com/2008/06/25/x3f-tv-xbla-in-brief-happy-tree-friends-and-ticket-to-ride/http://www.joystiq.com/2008/06/25/x3f-tv-xbla-in-brief-happy-tree-friends-and-ticket-to-ride/http://www.joystiq.com/2008/06/25/x3f-tv-xbla-in-brief-happy-tree-friends-and-ticket-to-ride/#commentsFiled under: ,

This week, XBLA in Brief takes on Happy Tree Friends and Ticket to Ride. One of them is a pretty good board game about building railroads. The other one is a weird game that doesn't really seem to take advantage of the cartoon upon which it's based. We'll let you figure out which one is which.

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JoystiqX3F TV -- XBLA in Brief: Happy Tree Friends and Ticket to Ride originally appeared on Joystiq on Wed, 25 Jun 2008 19:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Hey kids! It's Xbox Live Arcade Wednesday and that can only mean one thing. That's right, it's time for some new XBLA games. Huzzah! This week's releases are Happy Tree Friends False Alarm and Ticket to Ride. False Alarm has you guiding your favorite furry friends through various hazards, doing your best to keep them from being sliced, diced, burned, or otherwise mutilated. Ticket to Ride, on the other hand, is a board game in which you relive the spirit of expansion brought on by the advent of railroads. In other words, you build trains. It's more fun than it sounds. Both are available now for 800 MS Points each. Stay tuned for the next XBLA in Brief and we'll tell you whether or not they're worth the scratch.

Source - Happy Tree Friends False Alarm on Xbox.com
Source - Ticket to Ride on Xbox.com

JoystiqHappy Tree Friends and Ticket to Ride hit the XBLA rails originally appeared on Joystiq on Wed, 25 Jun 2008 11:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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"Spiel des jahres" 2004, Zug um Zug Ticket to Ride, is laying tracks and will be ready to pick up passengers from Xbox Live Arcade this Wednesday. The game is the debut title from Vancouver-based Playful Entertainment and will cost 800 MS Points ($10). Ticket to Ride joins other German board-to-digital leapers, Catan and Carcassonne.

Also arriving this week is Happy Tree Friends: False Alarm, which aims to deliver ten levels of action-puzzle ultra violence. Happy Tree Friends costs 800 MS Points ($10) and is rated "M," obviously. Ticket to Ride is rated "E," by the way, unless you use the Vision cam ... then an "AO" happening is never far behind.

JoystiqThis Wednesday: Ticket to Ride and Happy Tree Friends ride onto XBLA originally appeared on Joystiq on Mon, 23 Jun 2008 17:45:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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This week's Xbox Live Arcade releases (yup, plural) will both make your inner violent self cheer with bloody enthusiasm and your inner train conductor toot with excitement, because both Happy Tree Friends False Alarm and Ticket to Ride are releasing this Wednesday, June 25th to an XBLA near you.

This XBLA twofer will be a nice mix of variety seeing that False Alarm is more along the lines of "cartoon violence adventure game of blood, guts and survival" whereas Ticket to Ride is more "card game of choo-choo traveling fun". Though, there is one similarity, both will available for purchase this Wednesday for 800 Microsoft points. Now go and practice the elite art of video game screenshot viewing using the elite screenshot galleries below.


JoystiqHappy Tree Friends and Ticket to Ride storm the XBLA this Wednesday originally appeared on Joystiq on Mon, 23 Jun 2008 12:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Y'know, this seems familiar. Hmm ... yes it does. While we already knew the solid release date of Happy Tree Friends: False Alarm (June 25), Ticket to Ride has been something of an unknown quantity, with not much information about the game having ever been relased to the press. However, the last time xbox.com pages appeared for unreleased XBLA games, they released exactly one week later. And with HTF:FA definitely hitting next week, we think we can say with some certainty that the electronic adaptation of the classic board game about building railroads will be hitting next week too. To tide you over until then, marvel at the screenshots below.



[Source, Happy Tree Friends: False Alarm]
[Source, Ticket to Ride]

[Thanks Jonah]

Joystiq Xbox.com: Ticket to Ride and Happy Tree Friends originally appeared on Joystiq on Sat, 21 Jun 2008 16:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Yesterday came official word that Xbox Live Arcade game Happy Tree Friend: False Alarm is scheduled to release to the XBLA on June 25th (odd, seeing that we knew that a few weeks ago) and with said announcement comes a brand new trailer. It's a "Wacky Gameplay" trailer full of cute animals, dismemberment, screaming and enough animated blood to fill up all of Cliff's Gears of War 2 blood buckets. We're interested not only because we have a small chunk of our heart dedicated to those Happy Tree Friends, but also because we are suckers for video game violence. We always say, the more "icky" the better.

JoystiqVideo: Happy Tree Friends and buckets of blood originally appeared on Joystiq on Tue, 17 Jun 2008 11:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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We think we speak for everyone when we say "Finally." First announced in May 2007 with a target release date of Fall 2007, Happy Tree Friends: False Alarm is finally making its way to Xbox Live Arcade next Wednesday, according to Eurogamer.

The title, which features 10 levels of Tree Friend rescuing, is attempting to make up for its long delay with a new episode of the series on which its based being included in the game. But be forewarned: We've heard that the HTFs are not as harmless as they appear. In fact, we've heard they can be downright violent.

JoystiqHappy Tree Friends coming to XBLA next week originally appeared on Joystiq on Mon, 16 Jun 2008 13:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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We've been down this road before haven't we? Indeed, we have. This time should a bit more reliable though, as the date came from Sega themselves. The new release date for Happy Tree Friends: False Alarm is June 25, the week after next. The game itself is a menagerie of differing gameplay types and focuses, strangely enough, on trying "to save the characters from gruesome demise." After being jerked around a bit with this title it's good to know that it'll be seeing the light of day sooner rather than later. Though we wish we could say the same about some other XBLA games that have yet to see release.

JoystiqHappy Tree Friends has solid release date originally appeared on Joystiq on Wed, 11 Jun 2008 04:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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After questioning our own investigative work we can now brag that we were right all along. Ha! Happy Tree Friends: False Alarm not only slipped from a second week April release to April 21st, but has now slipped yet again to a general May release according to IGN. And we suspect the addition of a Japanese and Korean XBLA release is to blame. So, while we take a longer than expected wait, we figure what better time to watch an episode of Happy Tree Friends than now? Go ahead and give it a watch, though it may not be suitable for adolescent viewing. It's actually quite disturbing.

JoystiqHappy Tree Friends: FA delayed into May originally appeared on Joystiq on Tue, 15 Apr 2008 15:45:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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First, some rumor clarification. Happy Tree Friends: False Alarm for the XBLA was set to release the second week of April only to be pushed back a week to April 21st (Monday release?) Now, maybe, possibly, we aren't exactly positive that the title has been delayed yet another time.

Our confusion stems from a "Latest News" post over on the official website for Happy Tree Friends which mentions that "due to the expansion of the game launch to Hong Kong, Taiwan and Korea, the 'False Alarm' game will now push back to a later date." That's pretty cut and dry if it weren't for the fact that the the news post doesn't have a time stamp or any reference to when it was published. So, this delay news could be weeks old and refer back to the original delay from the second week of April to April 21st, or it's a brand new delay that pushes False Alarm back even further. Hence the mildly confusing "rumor" tag. Get it? Okay, good ...

[Thanks, Marcin]

JoystiqRumor: Happy Tree Friends: FA delayed yet again originally appeared on Joystiq on Sat, 12 Apr 2008 16:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Thanks to a recently distributed press release from Sega we now have the first teaser trailer of the XBLA version of that violent flash cartoon, Happy Tree Friends: False Alarm. Considering the fact that this is a teaser, its understandable that there is no gameplay. And besides, with an art style like this one, the only way we might even differentiate gameplay shots would be some sort of HUD or something. Other than that, the video reaffirms the fact that the game will not be cleaning itself up in comparison with the rest of the series, and that the game will be seeing release sometime this Spring. No word on the supposed "week of the 21st" release date though.

JoystiqHappy Tree Friends: False Alarm Teaser Trailer originally appeared on Joystiq on Thu, 03 Apr 2008 12:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Permalink | Email this | Comments]]>happy-tree-friendssegastainless-gamesxblaThu, 03 Apr 2008 12:00:00 EST<![CDATA[Happy Tree Friends: False Alarm to release in April]]>http://www.joystiq.com/2008/03/28/happy-tree-friends-false-alarm-to-release-in-april/http://www.joystiq.com/2008/03/28/happy-tree-friends-false-alarm-to-release-in-april/http://www.joystiq.com/2008/03/28/happy-tree-friends-false-alarm-to-release-in-april/#commentsFiled under: ,


The flash-animated, internet-cult phenomenon, known as Happy Tree Friends is getting it's XBLA release (with a subtitle of False Alarm) next month. As an extremely violent flash cartoon that it is, every entry features blood, gore and violent deaths, and as such should fit right in with the 360 crowd. On the HTF website, there is a confirmation from the staff that the game is set to go live on April 21, strange part is, (as you likely already know) XBLA games only release on Wednesdays. Now assuming that they are simply unfamiliar with that pattern, then it's likely that the game will see release the week of April 21 (its a Monday). Either way, the devs have gotten word that Happy Tree Friends: False Alarm is releasing soon, and from the looks of the rumors swirling, April should end up being a great month for XBLA.

JoystiqHappy Tree Friends: False Alarm to release in April originally appeared on Joystiq on Fri, 28 Mar 2008 23:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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The bloody, quirky, disgusting and mildly entertaining Happy Tree Friends cartoon is making its way from your television set onto the Xbox Live Arcade. Today, SEGA announced that Happy Tree Friends False Alarm will make an XBLA release sometime this Fall and should bring all the mischief and death any Happy Tree Friends fanboy would demand. Developer Stainless Games promises 10 levels and a handful of the franchises' characters where players take part in 3D physics and puzzle games. You know the drill, teaser trailer embedded above and really pinkified screenshots are available in the gallery below.


[Thanks, Chris]

JoystiqNo false alarm, Happy Tree Friends headed to XBLA originally appeared on Joystiq on Thu, 28 Feb 2008 17:45:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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