Wreckateer

Continuing our look back at Summer of Arcade 2012, today’s roundtable discussion focuses on Iron Galaxy’s Wreckateer. The cheapest of this years line-up at 800 MSP and the only Kinect title, it also ended up being one of the better reviewed games. As you’ll see our staffs discussion reflects that. Read More

There’s still news in this slow week!
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Avatar FameStar was launched this Wednesday alongside Kinect destruction game Wreckateer and to tell you all about it, a new trailer has also been helpfully published on Microsoft’s PlayXBLA blog. Full …
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This week on XBLA Wednesday we cover Wreckateer, the new Trials level, the Awesomenauts patch and this week’s sales & specials
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Wreckateer was developed by Iron Galaxy Studios and published by Microsoft Studios. It was released on July 25, 2012 for 800 MSP. A copy was provided for review purposes.

Wreckateer made a surprise showing during this year’s Microsoft’s E3 briefing, arguably stealing the show in the name of XBLA, and looks to be one of the more promising Kinect titles released this year. Essentially it’s a physics-based destruction game for Kinect that comes suited and booted with the new 400 gamerscore standard, along with three avatar awards and is the first game to utilize the new Avatar Famestar App on release. It’s also the second game released during this year’s Summer of Arcade promotion, and the inclusion of a Kinect game inevitably draws more than a few groans. Thankfully the game’s tight controls and surprisingly addictive scoring, means that Wreckateer deservedly warrants it’s slot in this year’s line-up.

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Microsoft has announced Avatar Famestar, a brand new program which rewards players for playing Avatar-centric XBLA games.  The program will launch alongside Wreckateer, and will also support Full House Poker …
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Weekly Roundup compiles all the biggest news stories, reviews, and releases from the week into one handy post on the weekends.

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Every year, E3 seems more hectic than the last. We spent five hectic days getting our eyes and hands on every XBLA game possible and we’ve picked out eighteen games that stood out from the crowd. Here is the run-down on the very best XBLA titles from E3 2012. Read More

Microsoft’s Major Nelson has announced the dates and prices for this years five Summer of Arcade titles. This years promotion will kick off on July 18 with Tony Hawk’s …
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Update: If you buy at least three games, you get 400 MSP back.

This year’s Summer of Arcade was announced by Phil Spencer of Microsoft on GTTV’s pre-E3 coverage. …
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