If they do this, I will love them forever.

Holy shit that'd be so sweet. I haven't played that game since it was new.

The original Perfect Dark is coming to XBLA.

Currently listed as a Winter release date (by one of Major Nelson's E3 twitters, apparently), or TBD as it says on the page. Definitely looking forward to this one.

Oh, this should be good. Now, if only the folks involved with the legal brouhaha over GoldenEye could come to an amicable difference so that it too can be resurrected... ideally with PD's gameplay improvements baked in.
Also on my things-to-get-on-XBLA list: Shadow Complex (Joystiq entries; Kotaku entries).
Combine Super Metroid-styled exploration with Abuse-like free-aim, and it looks like you've got the building blocks of a wnner.

Well, shit.

Figured I'd post this since it's all over CAG/etc.

On the new eBay classifieds thing, there's a guy selling prepaid points codes.

Link is here: Microsoft Xbox 360 Live 4000 Points Zune Card - Fast - - eBay (item 370219198406 end time Jul-22-09 14:18:04 PDT)

Looks and sounds fishy, and I wouldn't blame you for thinking that, but a bunch of people on both those sites jumped on it since the cost was 40 percent off the price you'd pay normally. After everyone confirmed working reciept of codes I also decided to jump in.

Code worked fine. 4000 spacebucks for 30 dollars.

He's got only USA codes, but luckily I have a silver USA account so I just dropped it on that. I am saving the points for Turtles and BF1943.

Regardless, it's probably the best rate on points you'll get any time soon, and it's legit, so I just figured I'd point it out.

America only? Faggots!

Well I bought one. The feedback is almost perfect, so it isn't likely a fraud. I am waiting for the code now.

If they're Zune ones, it's probably due to MS dropping the Zune recently and needing to shift out anything with the logo on it.

Dropping? They've got a new device on the way.

Anyway, where the cheap Euro points at.

Ha ha ha, what a bunch of fucking idiots. The Zune team were disbanded in February and pretty much every commentator suggested that their pathetic 4% market share meant they were getting out of the market. I'm still not convinced there'll be another after the latest launch, I imagine they're simply chucking it out as they'd already nearly finished building it. They can't really give them away at the moment.

For those who didn't catch this before, Garou: Mark of the Wolves has been confirmed for XBLA Wednesday. At 800 points I'd consider getting it if I knew a bunch of friends were going to be playing it, but the odds of that aren't too good, I imagine.

The link also mentions Droplitz, which is a puzzle game for 800 points that looks... sort of like Pipe Mania? Kind of?

Neither of those appeal to me, but I plan on getting Rocket Riot in the next few days. The demo for that was awesome.

Hell yes Garou coming Wednesday. Gonna be awesome.

Oh, BZ, check your spam folder for the code, that's where mine ended up.

Got it, worked. Wasn't in spam folder. Unban me please.

The full game doesn't do much that's terribly different from the demo (which is a LONG demo, I might add), but the challenge level amps up at a nice pace, I've been having a lot of fun with it.

Also the "break 1 million blocks" achievement is going to take a lot longer than I imagined. I'm about 40 or so levels in (halfway there!) and only have 200,000 blocks broken.

It seems like it would be a fun co-op or versus game. Tritoch's going to buy it on my 360 so we can both get the game with a single purchase.

Worms 2: Armageddon is coming out next week for 800 points. This should be a no brainer for everyone.

YouTube Video

(I need that mp3.)

Why is it every time I see these kinda games, I miss my 1989 Packard Bell computer and Tank Wars 2.5? Seriously... why is this?

Anyway, it's something to consider, but I dunno... Marvel Vs. Capcom 2 comes out next week as well, if I recall. That's gonna suck up some points as it is.

Does anyone have Garou yet? I would have insta-bought it since now we can play it online without having to rely on something like kaillera, but I'll hold off if no GFFers plan to get it. It definitely wouldn't be as fun for me if I kept encountering BURN KNUCKLERS punching my girls in the face all day long.

I've heard some nasty, nasty things about Garou's netcode, if anyone's bit, care to offer up your experiences?

I haven't played any ranked matches yet but I played for about three hours against a friend and it was great. Even with 100+ latency it felt pretty nice, unlike Kaillera. It did disconnect for no reason during one match but it was just that once. That was pretty much the only bad thing that happened during my playtime but as I said I haven't played any ranked matches yet.

Now about that dpad on the 360's controller..

If the 360 controller is your only option, I strongly advise using the analog stick instead of the terribly unreliable pad. I've played many great people online who use the analog stick and have execution just as good as a arcade stick player. Just gotta get used to it.

All this playing is making me get used to the dpad, now I can pull off moves at the same rate as with the analog stick. It's still costing me a few matches but it'll have to do until I get a real controller.

So I asked my friend to do some ranked matches with me to get those achievements over with and holy shit, it was absolutely terrible. The latency had to be worse than what was getting calculated and the game even skipped frames occasionally. After two ranked matches I asked him to do Player Match again and everything went back to normal, no latency problems or frame skips. I don't know what the problem is but Ranked Matches are fucking unplayable.