10 nouveautés à venir sur le XBLA
Les plus impatients peuvent déjà jeter un rapide coup d'œil sur les prochains jeux qu'ils pourront se payer sur le Xbox Live Arcade de la Xbox 360. Comme d'habitude, il y a du bon et du moins bon, à vous de faire le tri suivant vos goûts et votre portefeuille. Pour moi ce sera Worms seulement, le reste de mon argent ce sera pour me payer des bières et des cahuettes lorsque j'inviterai des potes pour jouer.
 
• 3D Ultra Minigolf Adventures
• Alien Hominid HD
• Band of Bugs
• Castlevania: Symphony of the Night
• Catan
• Eets: Chowdown
• LUXOR 2
• Paperboy
• Root Beer Tapper
• Worms

# Live chat via the Xbox 360 Live Vision Camera
# Three vibrant, 3-dimensional tables provide dozens of hours of play
# State-of-the-art physics model that surpasses the best titles in the genre
# Tables start out simple, but new challenges open up as a player’s skill
advances
# Flipper arms can be controlled with hand/arm motions via the Xbox 360
Live Vision camera
# Downloadable tables on Xbox Live Marketplace
# Real-time head-to-head mode for online multiplayer competition
# Amazing realism and polished presentation

Starting with the release date, he says that the whole certification took a lot longer than he and Microsoft had anticipated. He says the next few weeks, so it is likely that we will be seeing it before the end of February, all being well. He acknowledges the upset that has been caused, but re-iterates what so many other Arcade developers do, and says “it isn’t as simple as ‘it is done, get it out’”. I really think it should be!
 
The game itself is of course fully Live compatible. Four players can battle it out against one another, with the ability to taunt and tease with voice chat (something not really done before in a Worms game). The game allows you to fully name your Worms and team, something we all take for granted. Expect to see some explicit names over Live then children. One thing that you cannot do in multiplayer now is have two on two, or three on one battles. Brown says he wants a consistent game, since the Arcade is for more casual gamers. I’ve never enjoyed doing that anyway, so no problem there! There is also local multiplayer support as you would expect, with the ability to use four controllers for four players if you wish, something you couldn’t do on the Xbox. If you are short of controllers, then the sharing option is still available.
 
The Worms voice bank is something that has been questioned with regards to the Arcade size limit. Standing at 50MB, no-one should expect to see nearly 50 different voice options. However, Brown says that although they couldn’t fit them all in to the original game, there will be 30 to 40 downloadable voice banks after the game ships. Some will be free, and some will cost.
 
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But of course, that doesn’t do it justice, since the game has full 720p support with lovely 3D backgrounds and “nice water”. Brown says it all looks “very tidy”.
 
Moving on to weapons, Brown says the weapon set is a slimmer set than what some may be used to. The weapons that had massive explosions and causing massive damage apparently corrupt the balance of play, and if you join a game of Worms for the first time without knowing what the hell is going on, you might get the wrong impression. That’s not to say that Banana Bombs and Dynamite have been removed, but I’m assuming some of the more elaborate weapons like the Carpet Bomb may have been removed. There are no new weapons available in the Arcade version, but I’m quietly hoping weapons will be downloadable after the release of the game. The creation of schemes is still an option, whereby you set your main preferences so there isn’t the need to choose the same thing in the setup menu over and over. The weapons are customisable, so you could just have a grenade war if you wanted, or just lob bazookas at each other if you’re feeling boring.
 
With regards to Leaderboards, there will be the usual TrueSkill rank one, but Team17 also plan on having their own type of Leaderboard, one that tracks how many games you have played, how much damage you have done and so on. Why that couldn’t be included all in one Leaderboard I don’t know, but it will be interesting to see how much damage we have done overall.

Beaucoup d'entre vous doivent encore se rappeler de Track'n Field sur Nintendo ? Vous savez, le jeu de sport ou vous avez dû défoncer un bon paquet de manettes ^_^
 
En tout cas, le jeu de Konami devrait voir le jour prochainement sur le Xbox-live Arcade puisque le jeu a été classifié par l'USK, ce qui signifie une sortie très proche.

“Paperboy” will be available worldwide for 400 Microsoft Points.  Rated E for Everyone; Mild Animated Violence.
 
Game Features
·         Seven stages (one for each day of the week) and 3 levels of difficulty – “Easy Street,” “Middle Road” or “Hard Way”
·         New Xbox Live multiplayer: The standard multiplayer mode involves two player co-op play which can take place on the same console or over Xbox Live
·         High scores are tracked on the Xbox Live Leaderboard
·         Earn up to 12 Achievements and 200 Gamerscore points