Wednesday, February 20, 2008

GDC '08 - New XBLA media! Castle Crashers, Braid, Penny Arcade, Schizoid and more!

A whole slew of games are being shown for the Xbox Live Arcade at GDC - and a bunch of images have come out to coincide with them:


• “Braid” (Number None Inc.). Developed by Independent Games Festival Winner and experimental game designer Jonathan Blow, “Braid” is a platform experience that bends all the rules with the manipulation of time. “Braid” will launch this spring.

Check out more images of Braid here!


• “Castle Crashers” (The Behemoth). “Castle Crashers” is the second title currently in development by award-winning independent developer The Behemoth, creator of “Alien Hominid HD.” The role-playing game (RPG) adventure will let up to four players hack, slash and smash their way together through a visually stunning hand-drawn landscape. “Castle Crashes” launches this summer.

Check out more images of Castle Crashers here!


• “Defense Grid: The Awakening” (Hidden Path Entertainment LLC). “Defense Grid: The Awakening” is the definitive tower defense game experience designed specifically for Xbox LIVE Arcade and launches this summer.

Check out more images of Defense Grid: The Awakening (well.. just the logo) here!



• “Go! Go! Break Steady” (Little Boy Games). An Xbox LIVE Arcade exclusive, “Go! Go! Break Steady” is the debut title from independent developer Little Boy Games. The combination music and puzzle game combines break dancing with novel gameplay and launches this summer.

Check out more images of GGBS (Just art at the moment) here!



• “Penny Arcade Adventures: On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness” (Hothead Games).
The first video game collaboration between Penny Arcade creators Mike “Gabe” Krahulik and Jerry “Tycho” Holkins and legendary game designer Ron Gilbert, “Penny Arcade Adventures” is an RPG-adventure game set in a highly stylized 1920s universe filled with bizarre characters, outrageous combat and adult humor. The first episode of the game launches this summer.
Check out more images of Penny Arcade Adventures here!

As well as new images for Schizoid!


Check out more images of Schizoid here!

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