[Info] Xbox Live! Arcade: Novedades

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- All the retro games will be 400 points. They have leaderboards, enhanced graphics (which can be toggled on or off), etc.
- New original games will be 800-1200 points (Roboblitz, Mutant Storm Empire, Cloning Clyde, etc)

Releases
- Every game announced will be available before the end of the year
- The retro titles are front-end of the summer. A few (Frogger, Pac-Man, Galaga) are coming "within the next month or so".
- Lumines is a summer title

Game Info

- 21 games are online right now (18 new ones were shown today I believe)

- There is a game called Small Arms that is like Smash Bros. Small Arms - Indie developer Gastronaut Studios (a 4-man team) brought us Fuzzy Fever on Live Arcade. They hope to unleash another success with their upcoming diddy, Small Arms. In this game, you control odd, but cute, characters, that have both melee and projectile weapons. This could be anything, from a blow torch to a crossbow. You can play with over 4 player over live. The cast of characters includes cyborg tabby cats, assassin truffle pigs and mutant chimney sweeps. As you jump from platform to platform in this side-scroller, you can shoot one another with aiming radius of 360 degrees. It looks as hot as it sounds, and should be out some time this summer.

- Mutant Storm Empire is one universe. so when you clear the stage a door opens up that you go through to the next stage. Really neat.

- The code for Contra works

- Strong support from Namco: Pac-Man, Miss Pacman, Digg Dugg, Rally X, etc

- Midway was pleased with its first batch of titles that they are making more

- Making achievements a bit more easier to get. Bejewled and Smash TV are mentioned as having ridiculously hard/impossible achievements.

Lumines Info

- Downloadable skins, themes, puzzles, song packs, artist packs, and full XBL multiplayer. Partnership with Warner Music - spread across genres of music (pop, hip-hop, alternative, rock, etc). It's 1200 points and is a summer title.