January 13th 2009 3:00 pm PT

So, no game release at all this week?

hmmm cool!

BORING!!!!

The Maw looked like an interesting title. There aren’t many 3D platform games on XBLA. Banjo-Kazooie is one of them. Downloading the trial for The Maw next wednesday. If the trial is fun, I’ll probably buy the game for 800 MS points. If it’s 1200 points it better be good.

Nice to see that Castle Crashers is getting DLC. One of the better XBLA games last year.

What’s in the DLC?

Nice! I have been wanting to check out the Maw for awhile now….

I missed the part where it said that The Maw is going to be 800 points. I might just buy my first XBLA game for 2009 next wednesday.
The Maw….isn’t that the last level of Halo: Combat Evolved?

AWESOME!!! Some more Castle Crashers content!

do like clit

downloadble content duhhh

lol, at first when I saw the price for the Castle Crashers DLC, I thought there was another 0 at the end making it 1600. I don’t complain about prices, but THAT would have bothered me!

I can haz Castle Crashers King?

Wow, The Maw looks surprisingly good. Better than a lot of Wii titles out there.

Any more info on the DLC? Link doesn’t give new info.

What happened to 400 point games?

Apparently the Castle Crashers DLC only contains a couple of new characters, a new animal, three new weapons and a new spell. There doesn’t seem to be any new levels which is probably why it costs 160 points.

Is peggle ever coming??

i will be downloading this ONE

I will be getting this one

@emuholic

Where did you hear this info from?

The Maw looks interesting enough to check out next week. Not a fan of Castle Crashers tho.

“It’s time to revisit your favorite modern medieval magic kingdom and load up on two new kicking characters – the Open Faced Grey Knight and the leader of the fearless knights, The King, a new seal animal orb named Pelter, and three new weapons, including the Gold Sword. Last but not least cast a new spell called the King’s Heal which heals not only yourself but your party as well!”

Cool! I was not expecting this. 160 Points, done deal! Hope I can find time to play it as Street Fighter challenges arrive too much lately. All the fun with so little time.

So 1200 for the game, 160 for the content. $17 USD so far.

You know, when you see the sale Best Buy is having this week, then read about this “DLC content”, you wonder why someone would want this DLC.

I know, there are MILLIONS of CC fans out there, including my friend GPM. But still, I just do not see the value of this DLC, especially after the length of time it took for them to patch the game.

XBox 360 – And next, DLC for Braid! (No, not really, JB is too busy hiring ex-1Ups as living furniture…)

So if I don’t have CastleCrashers there’s no XBLA title for me?
That’s unfortunate.
At least I have the Maw to look forward to.

No game again wtf,we get 2 crap games then nothing.
What a joke,i buy a ton of live arcade games but if this keeps up i wont even bother to look to see what out in the future you can stick them where the sun don’t shine because i am getting sick of being disapointed every week when i know there’s a ton of finished games that are good waiting in the wings

WTF!! Arcades looking gayer every week. How can a company as big as microsoft not be able to meet the “at least one new game a week” they promise us. Wheres uno rush?? I can understand Christmas week, but wtf is their excuse now??

No thanks, I don’t buy content that is held back to be sold later on. Regardless of the price.

emuholic – “only contains a couple of new characters, a new animal, three new weapons and a new spell”

Only?! That’s amazing! I think considering that for 400MSP for Soul Calibur 4′s Vader and his sabers, no pet or spell, only one character, that this is really good. New characters to level up with new toys! Bring it!!!

After what happened, Behemoth is still charging us?! No deal. But the maw looks very interesting.

No Arcadegame this Wednesday? Only the DLC for Castle Crashers!? That sucks…!

Wow, 3 weeks of bad games and now no game. Whoever is making the decisions of what games to put on the marketplace and when should lose their jobs. Two dollar dlc this week for Castle Crashers just doesn’t do it for me after the big disappointments lately.

Thats it? just a DLC this week? That’s like 5 weeks straight of sucking.

Somebody else mentioned as well: where’s Peggle? What’s taking this game so long to come out on Live Arcade?! Please release it soon!

where is peggle? Come on microsoft you guys know people want that game issue a statement about its release allready.

so no xbla game releases this week

After the whole ‘best multiplayer game on Xbox 360 without the miltiplayer part’ fiasco, the DLC should come with free MSPs… Or at least be free.
I hate this paid-for DLC thing more and more every day… The person who came up with the charging money for stuff that should be in the game and overcharging for aditional stuff should be sledgehammered in the face.
I’m just surprised that no one has already released a sports game with only 2 teams, but promising 50+… and the others would have to be bought for $15 each… Or a multiplayer FPS with just a very weak pistol and the cool weapons costing $15 each… Or making a game that’s pay-to-progress, Imagine Super Mario 64, but instead of stars, you have to pay real money to access the stages(the first is ‘free’ when you purchase the game, the second cost $1, the second costs $3, the fourth costs $5, so on, and the last costs $120… Plus to unlock the secret stuff you need to pay $121).

Oooh, will this allow me to get my deleted save file back?
Oh..

The Maw looks quite good. Platformers on 360 are hard to find, especially on arcade, so this might be a welcome treat for 2009. Wish it was out this week though.

Yes, Castle Crashers DLC!! Im so excited!

Don’t bother with skyyplum, he’s just a troll. Considering he expects a Director of Programming to come answer his specific question on if the “continuation of bad titles going to continue”…*eyeroll*

it feels like it’s 2006, again – each wednesday we get only one or even no xbla-release at all!
great work, microsoft, especially with something like 100s of games waiting to be released…

Did they ever fix Castle Crashers?

The Maw looks good, but I can’t take another platformer after Sonic Unleashed — I’ll have to pass on this one for now. Looks decent for XBLA tho…!

Hello there Major,

when can we europeans expect the DLC in our marketplace?
Greetings
Madcow aka The Hajostoned

Wow…

Hey Larry, please congratulate the XBLA team for another week of worthless crap whenever you get a chance to in that office over there. They end ’08 with a few weeks of shitty releases. They begin ’09 with shitty releases and now they can’t even get a game up there this week. 160 microsoft points for a character unlock to a 6 month old game? Thanks a lot. If the Maw (which looks fucking great) wasn’t coming out next week I probably would have stopped caring about XBLA. It seems like you guys are artifically slowing things down so you can have another stupid “SUMMER OF XBLA” promotion. How about getting back to two releases per week?

Sounds awesome I will so buy the dlc but Maw i will pass since I have banjo.

I forgot about Peggle, when does it come out?

So after having to wait for a patch for months on end to make the game even playable, they release this tiny amount of content and dare to charge for it? How about a bit of goodwill for the people they left hanging for months?

Also, where are the games? It’s been over a month of mediocre games at best, and NO game this week?!

As others have said…this CC DLC should be free after Behemoth released a broken game and we had to wait months for it to be fixed. Most people have moved on to bigger and better games by now because the online didn’t work for so long. Not to mention the fact that people lost save data due to a very bad bug in the game. So after people shelled out $15 for the game that had these really bad issues for months after it’s initial release, Behemoth creates a few new things and says “Alright…so can you give us more money now?” My answer…is no.

The Maw looks like it could be a entertaining game, I just might have to get it.

Yes great new game well done.

Like many others, getting more & more disappointed with microsoft and the way they’re managing XBLA.

I mean we know there are dozens if not hundreds of games complete and waiting to be released(have read countless developer interviews where clearly even they are puzzled and disappointed that their games aren’t being released still months after they were passed certification).

Why on earth are we still seeing “no new release” weeks, not to mention the vast majority of weeks where we receive a single and stinking game.

Step up the program microsoft, even WiiWare is trouncing XBLA lately in my opinion and I never thought that would happen.

@Quaranj – I use the word only as I was hoping for more. I have completed the game a few times over and got sick of waiting for the update to fix multiplayer which I had never been able to play until Christmas when the update finally arrived. So for me a couple of extra characters etc. that they probably had left over from before the release isn’t enough for me to warrant a purchase. If new levels had been included I would have been happy to pay 400 or 800 points depending on the number of levels.

Oh that’s great, charge for DLC that’s already in the game for a game plagued with problems that have ruined the game since the beginning and have still not been fixed, just given a largely inneffective patch.

Maw looks okay but we’ll see.

OutRunOA is due this month.

Wheres UNO 2!!!!????

So I say I’m not a troll and you get rid of my messages Major, real cool. Cause I’m upset about the recent games and no release this week I can’t say so? And because Molasses whines about my comments and I respond you get rid of my messages, why not get rid of his for calling me a troll. I’ve read a lot worse messages on hear that continue to stay up but because I respond back to harassing remark I get mine deleted. If you can’t tell I’m a little upset by this and I pray we get some good games soon or at least some games that cater to a larger audience.

Plus really why can’t we get release dates on upcoming arcade games like we do for all other games? These days so many games are delayed so I don’t think it would be a big shock to see an arcade game delayed with our knowledge.

I know you work for ms Major and are not gonna bash them but at least some explanations to some of the decisions now and then would be great. And please don’t delete this message.

Sorry Major, you didn’t delete my messages. I was reading through my posts and saw the same messages from Molasses and figured it was the same topic but it wasn’t. So you can just ignore the first paragraph and last sentence of my last post.

Plus Molasses stop calling me a troll, I don’t call you a ms *** kisser do I.

Please Peggle come soon

sigh…3 red flashing lights tonight

The Maw is a XBLA game, huh why did I think it was a full one…

Trial first, buy later.

So, when can we think to see The Dishwasher: Dead Samurai, hmmmmmmm?

This better not be the only thing released tomorrow after 3 weeks of throwaways. WHERE IS PEGGLE??

dish washer, please.

Hmmm, sweet.

Where’s “The Maw” please ?

Peggle should be OUT very soon as it is being released on Pop Cap Arcade Volume 2 which releases in Early February.

Where is The Maw? I see the Castle Crashers content but can’t find The Maw anywhere.

I completely misread that and just thought The Maw came out today. No Arcade release this week? That is disappointing, especially after releasing junk like Interpol the week before.

errr, no christmas for xbla users, no happy new year, wake up guys, we need good games (no interpol, no castle crashers -fantastic game- poor DLC, no puzzle arcade…). Come on, do your job, like in summer !

At 108 KB I’m guessing its just an unlock key.

As the Behemoth said on their dev blog site: “All pricing for this and future downloadable content is entirely decided on by Microsoft. All we can do is throw in our input (free!!!!!) but at the end of the day it’s their decision.” So if you’re gonna whine about the cost of this DLC, at least choose the right target!

And if you’re still having problems with this supposed “saved data loss” bug (though this recent patch seems to FINALLY have taken care of it), all you have to do is just log out of XBL and back on within the game, and all your saved data will show up again. It looks like it was a DRM issue, since I only noticed it happening after I used my same HDD on a replacement Elite I got back after a RRoD repair.

I’m with Blue Thunder28, I want Dish Washer x 1,000,000,000. The demo was awesome and totally unexpected fun. “Mario with a knife and goth clothes!” (smiling). I am wondering, how do you guys and girls have all of the time to play games? I’m just asking, my work (school?) and projects tend to leave little time to play (lately). So if 2 weeks pass and their is not arcade game – good or bad – I don’t fret and look at old stuff I have not purchased. Heck I have arcade games I have not played in months (Worms, Duke Nukem 3D, Tetris Splash, DOOM, Frogger, Smash TV, Omega Five, Street Trace:NYC and more). “A new Arcade Game A Week” is NOT what I desire. I desire a good game, tested and 95% bug free, good sound & effects and graphics with good game play that are released per 2 weeks. Some of you need to backtrack, round up some friends and have a good time getting some achievements, but have fun doing it.

LAME!

SkyyPlum = troll

For those of you upset for not having a game this week — GO BUY INTERPOL. Released last week, it’s a fantastic game.

Please just grow up Molasses, I doubt that will happen but please. Calling me a troll is not gonna make me one, I’m not one and nor will I ever be one. I don’t say things to start arguments like you are doing so that would make you the troll here whiz kid.