TeamXbox: Space Ark Hands-On

As Dan Marchant, the business development director for Strawdog Studios, was describing the studio’s upcoming Space Ark for Xbox Live Arcade, a few things started to sound familiar. "Bounce" "Dropping power-ups." "Move from side to side." Characters called "Arkonauts."

That last one was too close…this game must be inspired by Arkanoid, the brick-breaking coin-op game from the mid-’80s. Indeed, Marchant admitted that Space Ark started as an Arkanoid-style game.