I picked up both Scrabble and Boggle, so I'm down for games. Fun enough for 400 points, which should always have been the normal price.

Still set for "Winter 2009" (page says "TBD", it's incorrect), with more screen-shots coming soon.

Maybe now they'll have a Joanna model that doesn't look like a moose. N64 era Rare was absolutely terrible at modeling women.

Heh, no matter what in-game shot her model's been in, we've never seen her face (only her back turned, seen in the Elvis shot, and the co-op shot).

The only actual "shots" of her are desktop wallpapers. :/

Well the renders certainly look different. Her Zero model had an entirely different face compared to N64 Joanna renders and in-game model. And now this one look different from either. She doesn't look half-bad, maybe could use a less box shaped face. Because that is a massive jaw.

Alright, the achievements for Perfect Dark XBLA have been revealed, which reveals an awesome fact: GoldenEye weapons are available for Combat Simulator use.

More screenshots were released as well, including one from Rareware's site. This is going to be amazing.

Edit: The link for achievements is apparently broken/missing, so until it's back, I've uploaded a screenshot of the list here.

Second Edit: And there go the screenshots. They've been uploaded to this flickr here.

Ha, I like the Act Your Age achievement. I always shot all the wine bottles every time I played the villa level anyway, so it's nice to know I'll be rewarded for it now.

Fuck YEAH Perfect Dark. I don't get very many XBLA games but that one will be one of them.

Is there a decent source on that achievement list? That's not just The Rare Witch Project? I have been unable to confirm this, and it's somewhat fishy looking considering the fact that there's more than 12 achievements there.

Unfortunately, I wasn't able to confirm it either, but since it came with actual screen-shots, who knows. Maybe three were unused and just grouped together?

Weird theory, sorry, but it's all I can think of at the moment.

Just as well, I remember the Orange Box had many more achievements than usual (which was justified, since there were essentially five games), maybe they're increasing the maximum amount of achievements for Arcade games in the future (chances are it's being released in early 2010, bar nothing.), or maybe Perfect Dark XBLA was given a little bit of freedom?

New Shoot 'em up from Squeenix is out today, 0 Day Attack on Earth. It's a dual stick effort set over some real life cities apparently. The trailer looks fun enough and I was going to download the trial version but for some reason my 360 won't download it at the moment. At 1,200 points though it'll have to be pretty special for me to buy the full version.

Large leak of Perfect Dark XBLA shots just hours ago, thanks to a leaked build and an eager 360 owner with a dev-kit. Slideshow here.

Apparently the build is dated December 6th, 2009 (as shown in one of the shots). The achievements I posted earlier are real, as well.

There's an eight player maximum for matchmaking online, and there are custom games online, but the maximum amount of players are unknown (probably eight as well). Co-op and Counter-op are online as well, two players maximum.

Looks great, will get this quickly. Last XBLA game i got was Shadow complex, love these big gaems.

Would be bitchin' if a couple of us got a game together. As fun as the demo is, 1200 is pretty costly. I can definitely wait for a discount for me to buy it.

If this screenshot is to be believed, the game might have some 'reward' to offer for having Crackdown 2 and/or PD Zero saves on the same HD/memory card. And yes, I'm glad to hear that Counter-Operative is back (and still wonder why nobody else ever tried to duplicate the concept...)

I honestly think it's a replacement for that Perfect Dark Game Pack GBC attachment, whatever the hell that was, since it unlocked quite a few cheats when you had it (All Guns was one of them).

I understand Perfect Dark Zero being there, but Crackdown 2's pretty puzzling.

Microsoft own Rare and the IP for Crackdown, it's a tenuous link granted but it's about the only connection I can think of.

is it possible to download the leak anywhere?

Unfortunately, he removed the link to the developmental build. It was on Megaupload (I was trying to find it earlier, still trying.). If I find it, I'll link it right away. Need a dev-kit on your 360 to use it, though.

As for the connection, thanks for pointing that out Shin, completely forgot.

I definitely wouldn't recommend it to anyone at 1200 MS points. I bought it and yes the game is fun but there's barely anyone playing it online, plus there's not much variety in the stages. There's only 3 different cities and six normal stages per city where you kill the same big enemies and one boss fight stage. I haven't tried those other two multiplayer modes, though. The game has potential, maybe they can improve it when some DLC comes out.

After Burner Climax has been announced for XBLA and PSN (though no date set yet), and since there are hardly any XBLA games that came out in japan and not in the rest of the world, there's a good chance we'll be seeing it, too.

And it'll be only 800 MS points! Now where's that Raystorm HD..

For those interested, I ran down the announcement trailer and a playthrough of the arcade version...

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...as well as some screens. Hopefully AM2 will toss in some more planes as unlockables...

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Some trawling turned up the arcade game's official site, which includes such information as a complete rogues' gallery and stage maps. One feature that's hopefully being carried over as well is the ability to fly with a wingman.

As for unlockables, from the screenshots on the console version's page there is an EX Option menu which is home to a variety of optional tweaks. This menu itself is apparently unlocked by downing the XB-70 which appears in Canyon Grandeur (reference 2:57 in this video); with the various tweaks having their own unlock criteria.

For those of you who didn't pick up TMNT: Turtles In Time - Re-Shelled for 800 points, this week there's a sale going on for the rest of the week and that game is up for 400 points now! Marvel vs CAPCOM 2 and Invincible Tiger are also on sale but those are 800 points.

I also picked up Chime. That was probably a bad idea because I'm already running on little-to-no sleep as it is and that game is so fucking entrancing and addicting that, really, I may as well have developed a fucking meth habit. Granted, this particular habit only set me back a Lincoln and shit, so it's cool. Should keep me busy until Bioshock 2 comes in the mail.

Perfect Dark's going to be out in March, and it'll cost you 800 points.