Saturday, July 29, 2006

urgo2 daily xBox talk

Well, their here! But with a pair of new Xbox games out this week and one new Xbox Live Arcade release over on the 360, at least there's something new to talk about.
Painkiller: Hell Wars and Warpath are this week's new Xbox releases. Both games are first-person shooters. Painkiller originated on the PC, and this Xbox port has been bumped around and pushed back more times than I can count. But apparently it's actually, finally done. It was a pretty cool PC game, and it'll be sort of interesting to see if the Xbox version is any good.
Warpath is a multiplayer-focused first-person shooter from the makers of the single-player shooter, Pariah. Looks like it's using some of the same technology. I believe we brought this game up last week, but it ended up not actually hitting stores last week. Will it hit this week? Yeah, probably. I've seen it in a retail box.
Next week marks the beginning of August. Along with the eighth month comes FlatOut 2, the destruction-oriented racing game that lets you launch your driver out of the car, through flaming rings, and into some hard, bone-breaking surface. On Xbox Live Arcade, the next release out of the gate is supposed to be Street Fighter II': Hyper Fighting. Not to create doubt where there shouldn't be any or anything, but after this game's long, winding path to release, it's become a sort of "believe it when I see it" sort of thing. Also, Xbox.com has Lumines Live! listed for a July release. That would mean that it would have to be out... uh... real soon now. That probably won't happen, but maybe it'll be the Xbox Live Arcade release for the Wednesday after Pac-Man or something. Either way, keep your eyes peeled, because Microsoft is going to have to announce some more Xbox Live Arcade releases soon.

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