wraggster
June 9th, 2006, 15:56
Rumours that have been sparked by a scan allegedly taken of a 'leaked' magazine page appearing on the 'net would have us believe that there's a particularly bounteous summer ahead for Xbox Live Marketplace.
Precisely which magazine the scan is supposed to have come from we've no idea as it's not been named - we're guessing the scan is supposed to be of a page appearing in the mystery publication's next issue - but it details content scheduled to appear on Marketplace between May 2006 and September 2006, and its cost in Microsoft points. A number of reports on the scan are taking the information given at face value, presumably because some of the Marketplace content mentioned in the scan is now available, and it may well be accurate although we'd have that pinch of salt to hand.
Anyway, top picks appearing in the scan include a Kameo 'hardcore package', due apparently next month for 500 Microsoft Points that introduces harder versions of single-player and co-op modes and a new co-op game type among other things, Project Gotham Racing 3 'Package B' - due July for 500 Microsoft Points - that features five new cars, 'Cat and Mouse' game mode and 'Proximity Based Racing' mode and a second map pack for Perfect Dark Zero, featuring "large maps" and also out July for 500 Microsoft Points.
In addition, a number of titles heading to Xbox Live Arcade are mentioned in the scan. Street Fighter 2 is down as a June release for Live Arcade, costing 400 Microsoft Points. And then we have Cloning Clyde (July, 800 MPs), Frogger (August/September, 400 MPs), Lumines Live (August/September, 1200 MPs), Roboblitz (August/September, 800 MPs) and finally Pac-Man (August/September, 400 MPs).
So there you have it. Should the scan be on the money, then there's going to be plenty of fruity gaming goodness dripping its juice on Marketplace over the next three to four months. But due to the scan's somewhat dubious origins, we'll file the information it spouts on new inbound content in our rumour drawer for the time being.
Via CVG (http://www.computerandvideogames.com/article.php?id=141262)
Precisely which magazine the scan is supposed to have come from we've no idea as it's not been named - we're guessing the scan is supposed to be of a page appearing in the mystery publication's next issue - but it details content scheduled to appear on Marketplace between May 2006 and September 2006, and its cost in Microsoft points. A number of reports on the scan are taking the information given at face value, presumably because some of the Marketplace content mentioned in the scan is now available, and it may well be accurate although we'd have that pinch of salt to hand.
Anyway, top picks appearing in the scan include a Kameo 'hardcore package', due apparently next month for 500 Microsoft Points that introduces harder versions of single-player and co-op modes and a new co-op game type among other things, Project Gotham Racing 3 'Package B' - due July for 500 Microsoft Points - that features five new cars, 'Cat and Mouse' game mode and 'Proximity Based Racing' mode and a second map pack for Perfect Dark Zero, featuring "large maps" and also out July for 500 Microsoft Points.
In addition, a number of titles heading to Xbox Live Arcade are mentioned in the scan. Street Fighter 2 is down as a June release for Live Arcade, costing 400 Microsoft Points. And then we have Cloning Clyde (July, 800 MPs), Frogger (August/September, 400 MPs), Lumines Live (August/September, 1200 MPs), Roboblitz (August/September, 800 MPs) and finally Pac-Man (August/September, 400 MPs).
So there you have it. Should the scan be on the money, then there's going to be plenty of fruity gaming goodness dripping its juice on Marketplace over the next three to four months. But due to the scan's somewhat dubious origins, we'll file the information it spouts on new inbound content in our rumour drawer for the time being.
Via CVG (http://www.computerandvideogames.com/article.php?id=141262)