Space Invaders Extreme 360
One of the best DS games of the past 12 or so months *and* with that thing as a background?
I hear the words “sold” echoing around my head for some reason.
Eurogamer Expo
Probably (hopefully) the only time I’ll print a press release verbatim on here…
BRIGHTON, ENGLAND, 6th October 2008: The best consumer gaming event of 2008 just got better, with 56 playable games now confirmed for the Eurogamer Expo, which takes place at the Old Truman Brewery in London on October 28th and 29th.
Headlining the new arrivals are two highly anticipated first-person shooters - Killzone 2 for PlayStation 3, and Left 4 Dead, which will be playable on Xbox 360 for the first time in Europe. Wii fans aren’t left out in the cold either, with Nintendo’s Disaster: Day of Crisis and Wario Land: The Shake Dimension also confirmed for the show.
Eurogamer is also proud to support Pixel-Lab’s Indie Arcade at the Expo, showcasing 10 of the best titles in independent PC game development. See below for the complete list of titles.
Tickets are now on sale for Eurogamer Expo, costing just£5 per day, with all proceeds after credit card processing fees going to UK videogames charity GamesAid. The Expo is open from 11am to 10pm each day. Visitors must be aged 15 or over to enter.
Tickets also admit visitors to the GamesIndustry.biz Career Fair, with 20 exhibitors now confirmed as attending, including Fable II creators Lionhead. Other exhibitors include Crytek, Relentless Software, Realtime Worlds, Starbreeze, Ubisoft, SEGA Europe and Microsoft Game Studios.
To register for tickets, visit http://expo.eurogamer.net/register
For more on the Eurogamer Expo, visit http://expo.eurogamer.net
Full list of new playable titles:
- Killzone 2 (PlayStation 3)
- Left 4 Dead (Xbox 360)
- Disaster: Day of Crisis (Nintendo Wii)
- Wario Land: The Shake Dimension (Nintendo Wii)
- PSN Power Pack (PlayStation Portable)
- PSN Puzzle Pack (PlayStation Portable)
Pixel-Lab Indie Arcade:
- Braid (PC)
- Dangerous Highschool Girls In Trouble (PC)
- Jetpack Brontosaurus (PC)
- Multiwinia (PC)
- Plain Sight (PC)
- Psychosomnium (PC)
- Samorost (PC)
- Shift (PC)
- War Twat (PC)
- World of Goo (PC)
Just. Woah.
XNA Community Games: No free games at launch
I’m not surprised, but it’s certainly what I didn’t want to hear about the XNA community stuff… here’s the Wired article with the lowdown.
Developers will not be able to release free games at launch, Microsoft said. All games on the service must be priced.
Satchell said free games are a possibility in the future, although Microsoft still has questions. “Do we really want a free tier? If we do, how do we structure that? We’re going to start with the model that we know, which is transactions, and then go from there,” he said.
I was skeptical before, now I’m just dismayed.
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