The ESRB has updated over the weekend with two previously unknown titles possibly coming to the Xbox Live Arcade - RBI Baseball and Puzzle Arcade.RBI Baseball is the name of a classic Baseball series created by Namco in the mid 80's and early 90's - RBI referring to "Run Batted In", a baseball term. However, whatever this new game is now being published by a new publisher - Six Degrees Games. Currently their website is fairly sparse, claiming they will announce something soon, so whether this game has any relation to the classic game is unknown.
What do we know about Six Degrees Games? Not a lot, just some of the current workers over there. According to linkedin.com at least two of them were big players in JAMDAT - which was a large Mobile games company back in 2006 and then bought out by EA in 2006.
My favorite is this fellow - Gerald DeYoung, who is apparently a producer over at Six Degrees Games. He's got a long list of games he's worked on, like being part of the design team of NBA '08, Producer for Daytona USA on the SEGA Satutn, and my favourite - was a tester for such games as Disney's TaleSpin, Greendog, and Make My Video: Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch for the SEGA CD. Poor guy! You have to start somewhere, that's how the games industry works!
That didn't sound like a stalker at all. Still, there is no proof that this is an Xbox Live Arcade title, but the way it suddenly pops up without prior acknowledgment is very much like a lot of other XBLA titles.
Puzzle Arcade is a game being developed by Eidos.From the looks of it, it might be the new name of Fractal Jigsaw - announced last year. It's been rated by several other sites such as the UK's PEGI rating system under the Xbox Live Arcade tab. Does Braid have competition?
Hopefully we'll hear from these projects soon. Certainly something different for the Xbox Live Arcade, if they're coming.
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