Patrick Klepek of MTV Multiplayer writes:"I've seen and played part of the future of Xbox Live: Community Games. It's a feature whose success relies on almost everyone but Microsoft."
"Community Games is the recently announced program that allows independent developers to publish games created using Microsoft's XNA Design Studio toolset. Gamers will be able to download these games through their Xbox Live account on a regular Xbox 360."
"Microsoft allowed me access to the Community Games beta, where I proceeded to download more than 10 completely user-created games."
"The current Community Games interface doesn't work well. It runs through the existing XBL interface, which XNA general manager Chris Satchell told fellow reporter Tracey John will change later this year."
"The beta is definitely not how it will look when we launch later in the year because we have to work with the current technologies; we're releasing more stuff later in the year," said Satchell. "So it's a little bit cumbersome to get through in the beta, and we're definitely ironing that out by the end of the year."
The Outerhaven writes: Split/Second was the explosive arcade racing game that outshone Ridge Racer and Burnout. That is, until Disney shut it all down before a sequel could happen.
Game Rant interviews Plants vs. Zombies composer Peter McConnell about honoring the series’ quirky roots, adapting its themes, and now going vinyl.
The score for the first Plants Vs Zombies is such great, iconic music that it has a timeless quality. Not quite the level of Minecraft, but wonderful in its own right.
The voice actors for Arthur Morgan and Charles Smith have vaguely confirmed a claim by Rob Wiethoff (voice of John Marston) that big news related to the Red Dead franchise will be coming "before Friday."
I hope it's a remake of the 1st game. But it's probably just the PS5 version of Red Dead Redemption 2
I hope a PS5 upgrade launches on the same day as announcement & it costs no more than $10. I already bought the Ultimate Edition once, they got good money from me.
I stopped playing completely 2 years ago until they did 60fps. I really didn't expect it would take this long & I didn't want to start completely over on PC.
My wish is that its optimized for current gen machines, with some sort of story expansion. Undead nightmare 2! My 2nd wish is that it just shadow drops on the day of the announcement!.
