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Defense Grid, Yo-Ho Kablammo on XBLA this week photo

Anyone up for a double shot of Xbox LIVE Arcade this week? Well, we're getting one either way. This Wednesday will see the release of two lesser known downloadable games, Yo-Ho Kablammo and Defense Grid: The Awakening. Both games have an asking price of 800 Microsoft Points.

I don't recall ever hearing about Yo-Ho Kablammo before, and trust me, with a name like that, I certainly would.  Having no actual first-hand experience with the title, I want to say it reminds me of Capcom's Age of Booty, but that could just be a generalization on my part.

Tower defense players can probably recognize Defense Grid, since this XBLA release is actually a port of the immensely fun PC game of the same name. Excluding any weird problems with transferring it from PC to Xbox 360 that could theoretically pop up, I can't recommend this game enough.








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GameBrahma's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/31/2009 20:27
GameBrahma
Direct download content is the future of gaming. It makes more sense on many different levels, from cost of production to cost of delivery. These two games look interesting. I expect game developers to become much more creative and less constrained by cost of production over the coming decade with this new means of distribution.
Gene Eric's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/31/2009 20:31
Gene Eric
Meh. Rather get it on PC or PSN than on RipoffLive
Spyn Doctor's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/01/2009 02:45
Spyn Doctor
Yo-Ho Kablammo is the third game coming out of the Dream Build Play 2007 contest: IRC, back then "Dishwasher: Dead Samuari" and "Blazing Birds" tied for first place and Yo-Ho Kablammo and Gravitron Ultra tied for second place. All four were offered XBLA contracts. Dishwasher and Blazing Birds are of course already on the service. Kablammo is coming now. Don't know about Gravitron.
Knivy's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/01/2009 04:26
Knivy
Defense Gris is great on PC, i guess people should at least give it a try on console
feedback's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/01/2009 09:34
feedback
I wish they had released Defense Grid instead of oh, say, TMNT during the Summer of Arcade.
TKurata's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/01/2009 11:47
TKurata
Defense Grid +1, can't wait! I rule the leaderboards on PC! :)
XivSpew's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/02/2009 03:58
XivSpew
The 360 arcade summer is officially OVER! Back to school, kids!
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