Xmas XBLA deal round up.

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Xmas isn’t just about families and giving.  It’s also a time for minor reductions on Xbox Live Arcade and this year is no exception with the following titles available for less moon dollaz than usual.

Said games are cheaper from 21st Dec to the 31st.  Also, other daily deals will be occuring which, if they are anything like last year will means excellent games for Japan and shitty film deals for us in the UK.  Dunno about you Americans, do we even get any Americans here?  If so, we think you’ll be trapped in the same ‘rent a shitty movie for 240M$P’ hell as us.

Weekly deals:

Super Meat Boy Discounted Price: 800 (from 1200).  A neat-but-punishing platformer, similar to N+ but disguising its hatefulness behind a cuter exterior.  Our review HERE.

Comic Jumper Discounted Price: 800 (from 1200).  Clever, side-scrolly fighter/shooter with echoes of Comix Zone. Our review HERE.

Toy Soldiers Discounted Price: 800 (from 1200).  Popular twist on the tower defence genre.  If you can be arsed with another one of those.

Banjo Tooie Discounted Price: 600 (from 1200).  Popular N64 title in reasonable port.  Dunno.  Our review HERE.

Castle Crashers Discounted Price: 600 (from 1200).  Overrated dogshit scrolly fighter that tricked everyone with its cute visuals.

The UnderGarden Discounted Price: 400 (from 800).  Ignored it when it was released a couple of months back and so did the rest of the world.  Platform/puzzler with echoes of Braid and Limbo.  Possibly.

Risk Factions Discounted Price: 400 (from 800).  A lovely reinvention of the old board game with some good power-ups to keep it fresh.  Let down heavily by absolutely rubbish AI. Review-oh.

Afterburner Climax Discounted Price: 400 (from 800).  Exciting reinvention of the ancient, and rubbish, ’80s coin-op.  Blistering speed and great visuals can’t hide the limited gameplay.  Plays like a less accurate, less tasteful Rez.  A very easy achievements max though. Reviewage

Borderland’s Claptrap New Revolution Discounted Price: 400 (from 800).  Go fuck yourself Borderlands.  A great game ruined by AWFUL downloadble content.  We gave up after the first three, this is the fourth and it got panned by reviewers and loved by idiots.  Would download it for free.  Fact.

Carcassonne Discounted Price: 400 (from 800).  An absolutely charming strategy game that shows its board game roots but takes out the chore of manual scoring.  A steal at 400M$P and our XBLA game of the year back in 2008.

Contra Continues

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I was Director of Cultural Events at the Haile Selassie Pavilion.

I love the Corps!

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The ever-savage Contra series (seriously Super Contra can fuck off) continues.  Konami’s famous run and gun arcade game is getting a modern makeover with Contra: Hard Corps on PSN and XBLA.  It is based on the Sega Megadrive game of the same name but with neat 3D visuals (fortunately on a 2D plane).

Co-op play, harsh achievements and difficulty that makes you weep are to be expected but the new ‘Rising’ mode promises an easier ride for people who want all the fun of Contra but less of the broken joypads and fun.

It’s expected in “Winter 2010” which judging by our barely working fingers is er… now?  Price isn’t set but we’ll be frankly astonished if it’s less than 1200M$P.

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The PEOWW Awards 2010 – Nominations

Awards, yeah?

Yes, my dears, it’s that time of year again where we take a look back at all the games released in the huge ball ache of a year that was 2010. Some where good, some where bad and some where Army of Two: Ladyboys Wreck Your Shit Whilst Raping Pandas.

Just like last year we’ve broken the nominations down into different sections based on style, hardware format and the like with each one getting up to three votes from you with your first choice being your preferred preference and so on.  Additional comments are always welcome ans we’ll use them where we can.

We’ve included a few new categories this year to reflect changes in the gaming scene along with all your old favourites like the ‘LOL@’ and ‘Lemon’ so be sure to check our REVIEWS and MINI REVIEWS sections for a reminder of some the games eligible for nomination.

So have your say and get your votes in before December 31st 2010 to THIS address.

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