As of this morning, Metal Slug 3 is on XBLA ready to steal your 800 Microsoft Points. The game supports 2-6 players over Xbox Live and 2-4 players local, which is pretty sweet. Hit the link to read Major Nelson’s announcement.
Link: Arcade: METAL SLUG 3
Reports earlier this morning stated that Xbox Live’s issues seemed to be resolved. A quick check of the Xbox.com Support page showed that Xbox Live was up and running with no disclaimers, which was a first in several days. Now, they’ve changed the message back saying that you might experience intermittent issues with signing in, matchmaking, etc. I guess it was fun while it lasted. Check out the Twitter widget on the left side of Major Nelson’s homepage for pretty frequent updates regarding the outages.
On a related note, there have been rumors that Microsoft will be offering compensation to it’s Gold subscribers for the downtime experienced the past week+. I think that would be fair, considering we are paying for the service, but it is yet still a rumor.
Reports have been floating around the intarwebs for the past few days that Xbox Live is still having issues. Today, however, the status on the Xbox.com Support page has been changed. It seems that the issues may be related to the number of new accounts being created over the past week, as Ripten reports that Microsoft has temporarily suspended the ability to create new Gamertags. This is kind of confirmed by the Xbox Live status message you see to the right. I haven’t tried playing any online games in the past few days, but I have noticed that I can’t stay logged into Live for long periods at a time.
Link: 360 Holiday Sales Wreak Havoc on Xbox LIVE Servers – Seriously
Eurogamer has posted the first 10 of their top 50 games of 2007. I won’t spoil anything, because it’s a good read with some great commentary. You know it’s been a great year when seven of the top 10 games are available on the 360 and four of the seven are console exclusives to the 360. It was an awesome year for gamers, but a tough one for our wallets. If anyone cares, I’m trying to come up with my Top 10 before we get to 2008. With some luck, I’ll make it. Also, be sure to let us know what your Top 10 games are in our forums (which are still under construction, but functional).
Link: Eurogamer’s Top 50 Games of 2007: 10-1 [Via Kotaku]
Gamerscore Blog informs us that next week’s XBLA release will be Metal Slug 3 and will cost 800 points. The original arcade game has been updated with HD graphics and will allow up to 2 players to play co-op over Xbox Live. Check out all the screenshots on the Gamerscore Blog Flickr page.
Link: Metal Slug 3 on Xbox.com [Via Gamerscore Blog]
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