Old school gameplay gets an upgrade this week on Xbox Live Arcade, as Snowblind Studios releases Death Tank, a shiny new take on the classic tank-on-tank angle shooter.
What's an angle shooter, you ask? It's any game that involves calculating the angle of projectiles based on terrain velocity in order to efficiently dispatch your foes. Newer examples include Gunbound or Worms, while I always like to go back in time to the days of shareware with the classic Scorched Earth. Death Tank features classic tanks and angles gameplay for up to four people on the same Xbox 360, with eight players supported via Xbox Live.
Death Tank will be available for download early Wednesday morning, as per usual. In the meantime, check out the video below to get an idea of what to expect for your 1200 points.
More than 250 downloadable games were released for consoles in 2009. Some became deserved hits, racking up huge sales figures and becoming pervasive in gaming circles, but with so many titles, it's inevitable that a few gems would fall through the cracks.
Ryan Langley, editor of console download-focused Gamasutra sister site GamerBytes, has rounded up five Xbox Live Arcade and PlayStation Network games that should have found their audience, but for whatever reason -- be it confused release schedules, price point bungling, or lack of gamer awareness -- have languished in relative obscurity.
The latest Xtival event – Microsoft's Xbox LIVE celebration designed to entice Xbox 360 newcomers with a glimpse of the special initiatives available to Xbox LIVE Gold Subscribers – is sent to commence this coming weekend, November 27th to November 29th 2009. Microsoft have begun detailing the attractions that will take place over the seventy-two hours of celebrations, in which all Xbox LIVE members will have their subscription upgraded to a Gold Subscription for the duration of the event.
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