Xbox Arcade Release 4/23

Eets: Chowdown Chomps Its Way Onto Xbox LIVE Arcade

  
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Get your thinking cap on and your sweet tooth in shape, as Eets: Chowdown becomes available for download on Xbox LIVE Arcade for Xbox 360 beginning Wednesday, Apr. 25 at 0900 GMT (2:00 a.m. Pacific).

Eets: Chowdown from Klei Entertainment Inc. is a visual feast for the eyes and a treat for the brain, combining 2D puzzle game elements with a surreal sense of humor. Gamers must use colorful and whacky items like spouting Prankster Whales, vengeful Marshomechs, Radioactive Ginseng and more to manipulate Eets emotions and safely guide it through myriad hazards to each level’s exit.

Eets: Chowdown offers a slew of new items, 120 levels and the exclusive debut of Marsho Madness, a high-adrenaline action game in which players must keep the impending evil marshmallows at bay.

Eets: Chowdown will be available worldwide for 800 Microsoft Points and is rated E for Everyone.

Game Features

  • 120 new levels in gorgeous high definition graphics
  • Tons of crazy characters, including Marshomechs, Radioactive Ginseng, and Exploding Superpigs.
  • Marsho Madness: the crazy, adrenaline-rushing Eets action game, where players can play co-op to keep the impending evil marshmallows at bay
  • Earn up to 12 Achievements and 200 Gamerscore points

Flip for Pinball FX on Xbox LIVE Arcade

 
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Gamers will soon be able to bump and flip in high-definition, as Pinball FX will be available for download on Xbox LIVE Arcade for Xbox 360 beginning Wednesday, Apr. 25 at 0900 GMT (2:00 a.m. Pacific).

Zen Studios new Pinball FX offers a unique pinball experience for novice and expert gamers. It combines the arcade thrills of traditional pinball with enhanced gameplay and exciting, innovative features not found in any other pinball game. Gamers may control the flippers with their hand or arm motions using the Xbox LIVE Vision Camera or simply use the standard Xbox 360 controller. Pinball FX sets a new standard for realistic ball physics and graphical detail in pinball video games.

Pinball FX will be available worldwide for 800 Microsoft Points and is rated E for Everyone.

Game Features

  • Real-time head-to-head mode for online multiplayer competition for up to 4 players
  • Three vibrant, 3D pinball tables
  • Tables start out simple, but new challenges open up as a players skill advances
  • Gesture based controls and live chat via the Xbox 360 LIVE Vision Camera
  • Earn up to 12 Achievements and 200 Gamerscore points
  • Amazing realism that is an industry first for the genre

Screenshots for both will follow when i get them uploaded.

It feels creepy when you are “IN” the game

So I started playing around with WSOP: TOC, and they have a pretty nifty little feature in which you can use your vision camera and actually become the poker player you control. I have to say this is a pretty impressive feature, but at times it feels a bit scary to sit there and see the digital me in game. Here are two images (not the best quality, and no I am not smiling) just so you can see what it looks like.