Pocket Gamer: Mad Tracks was a relative success on Xbox 360 as a downloadable release from Load Inc. It was a simple to control racer which saw miniature cars shoot around often rollercoaster-like tracks in a myriad of locations.
Namco Bandai have grabbed the rights to bring it to iOS and their version manages to capture much of the original's appeal, albeit with a few caveats.
ThisGenGaming says "The weekly backwards compatibility titles for Xbox One continues, which also means the weekly leak."
I don't care for these games, but it is nice seeing more titles regularly updated on Xbox BC.
Just to confirm there will be a Thursday update too. Possibly with bigger titles.
Where is Fable Anniversary? It's a Microsoft title so there should be no legal issues FFS.
I hate remasters or remakes..... but that would be only game I would love as a remaster... wish I had a game like that for this gen, pro and Scorpio of course...
Team ninja probably is looking at Nioh to fill in the gap, however I found it rather dull. I'm sure it has its place in the world, but so does speedy hack and slashing.
My system is backwards compatible all the way back to like 1977. That's cool though, at least you get something. (Not sarcasm, sony killing BC at least for PS2/PS1 games just so they can sell them back to you is inexcusable. Emulating the PS3 is hard because it was designed weird, so that's an understandable omission, granted one that was created by their short sightedness.)
Backwards compatibility is the reason why I'm keeping my Xbox One. I never owned a 360 so being able to play games like Alan Wake and Lost Odyssey (which I started today - finally!) is nice. It's the first time I've used the console since Quantum Break came out. I should have just bought a cheap 360 instead.
Exactly. Imagine if in early 2010, i.e. just shy over 3 years into PS3's life, the only thing you had to look forward to was the announcement of what 1 or 2 BC PS2 games were coming to the console, even though they released a version of the console with 1500 games supported at launch and nobody really cared.
Yeah people would have called it the most overated thing back then too.
Backwards compatibility is a great extra feature, but it isn't the only thing Xbox users have to look forward to by any stretch. Only most hardcore PlayStation fanboys call it overrated, and it's pretty clear you're part of that group.
It would have been awesome if PS3 kept BC after the first models.
Sad but true. Xbox one has nothing worth playing, what you can't already find on pc and ps4
Maybe people like playing those games you can find on the PS4/PC better on the Xbox one. There is plenty to play on Xbox.
Another idiot who can't grasp a huge number of us don't want to play on a bloody PC.
OXCGN:
"Microsoft has taken a leaf out of Valve's Steam with Major Nelson announcing Xbox Live's first ever "Inventory Blowout Sale". Ten Xbox Live Arcade titles at 50% off (give or take) for a week!
But beware: As any hardened Steamer will tell you, you're likely to buy a lot more than you'll ever play. So for the more economically sensitive gamers amongst us, OXCGN has bought them all so you don't have to! From 10/10 to 1/10, here is our rundown of what we hope is the first of many Inventory Blowout Sales to come."
Well the Sony has specials of the week for PSP GO here in Oz, and Steam always does...so it makes a lot of sense to discount XBLA titles (especially old ones) regularly, often, and in great numbers to promote sales.
Agreed.
The only downside is I spent 2240 Microsoft Points in one sitting (yes I grabbed Track & Field! lol).
I have a feeling that if people buy like I did, this thing will gain traction and MS will have me poor in no time... just like Steam. sigh :P
I can see where this is heading for XboxLive.
Being privy to lots of press releases, there's a huge wave of taitles heading for the Arcade side of things on both XboxLive and PSN.
There's now more news coming from titles aimed at those two mediums than normal disc-based games.
This is showing the results of Microsoft's push for casual gamers and the family-gaming and social networking side of things.
they have pulled back heavily on advertizing for major disc-based games, allowing the 3rd party companies to do that, while MS focus almost solely on the Social-media medium.
I suspect by years end, the ratio will be 2/3rd arcade and 1/3rd disc-based titles being released across the board, or via digital distribution.
A worrying trend for retailers unless they change tactics, and also for those developers that rely on large data files that can only be stored on disc, irrespective of the type of disc.
We may well see smaller initial disc-based games appearing by years end, with several updates and expansions via digital download, which can only be used via an official game disc-based game in the machines.
Which sort of goes along with what EA CEO was hinting at earlier in March.
Eh, i was a bit disappointed with these, nothing really on sale i'd like. I have around 2000 spare points on my account that have been unused for quite a while now, Sony's PSP sale has been great though, bought a few games in that including Tekken 6 and a digital copy of God of war chains of olympus, on topic though.. i wouldn't even put the PSN or XBLA sales in the same league to call them 'steam-y' sales..
THESE are steamy sales:
http://eugn.co.uk/SteamSale... - and there were hundreds of other games on sale too.. these were just the specials for the day. Fantastic, and the do this sort of stuff on a title by title basis pretty much weekly, got Borderlands for £15 last weekend.
Following Sony's announcements of the April Foolishness Sale and PSP Favourites promotion earlier this week, Microsoft has today revealed a cost-cutting activity of their own. From today, eight top titles held on the Xbox 360's Xbox LIVE Arcade are available for half-price, and two further titles are set to be greatly reduced. These sale prices are limited however, available for only seven days.
... and nothing on that list really interests me. Bit of a disappointment.
When the hell are they finally gonna discount TrialsHD!?
Splosion man would be a good for me when it gets a price drop.
SSF2HD is not bad. Schizoid was pretty fun so maybe.
I love sales like these.
I will buy pretty much anything when it's around 4 or 5 dollars.
Trials HD is continually one of the best selling arcade titles week after week, i wouldn't imagine they would offer it on sale if they didnt need to
Well, I'm partly glad they actually didn't lessen the prices of XBLA games I've been wanting for a while because I didn't take my 360 away with me over this week.
...it's not "inventory", if it's only available as a digital download. Just sayin'....
