New XBLA titles announced

360 News | Ten more on the way.

The Xbox Live Arcade has recently been a tad dwarfed by Nintendo's online service but Microsoft made an announcement today via a press release confirming that ten new titles will be coming to the Xbox Live Arcade beginning from February.

The highlight of the ten titles has to be Castlevania: Symphony of the Night, which will be the first Xbox Live title to exceed 50MB in size. Other big titles include: Alien Hominid HD and Worms, which looks rather impressive.

Previously known titles coming to the service include 3D Ultra MiniGolf Aventures, Paperboy, Root Beer Tapper, and Catan, but three new games were also revealed; Luxor 2, Eets: Chowdown and Band of Bugs.

Band of Bugs is a stategy title developed by Ninja Bee, the team behind Cloning Clyde. You'll be able to create your own levels and share them through Xbox Live. Eets: Chowdown is a port of the PC version, where you'll be able to play through 120 new levels with new items and finally Luxor 2 is a puzzle title.

We're not entirely sure when these titles will be released, but Microsoft stated that the first release will be in "February" (so we assume there will be nothing released again tonight) and "a game may not be launched every week."

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12 Comments

Spanca

3 years ago

Do we know how many points Castlevania will cost?

Luke

3 years ago

I believe 800, though nothing has been confirmed.

Spanca

3 years ago

1200 wouldn't surprise me after Lumines, but 800 would be nice as that's what I've got left over after Lumines!

Karai Pantsu

3 years ago

I'd be surprised if Castlevania came in at anything under 1200 points, to be honest. Although it's be a pleasant surprise - trust me

Worms is looking petty slick, I'd wager it's going to be an absolute blast on Live!

slapshakle

3 years ago

Hell yeah, I have 3000 points gathering dust since I have already bought most of the arcade games

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Castlevania: Symphony of the Night, which will be the first Xbox Live title to exceed 50MB in size.

Actually, Lumines was 50.6MB + all the extras. Spanca, did you download the Heavenly Star skin ? Its awesome.

Spanca

3 years ago

Nope. Does it cost more?

GroovySamurai

3 years ago

^ I think thats the one thats free for a while? I downloaded like a 100mb skin that was free. Even though I dont have the game yet

Ninja Bee are a mad company - Outpost Kaloki X and Cloning Clyde are 2 of my fave arcade games so I cant wait too see how Band of Bugs turns out!

Cerebral

3 years ago

The Heavenly Star skin looks very cool, but could seriously give you an epileptic fit.

Jim Dash

3 years ago

Worms and Castlevania must be mine..

And yes, PALGN Worms matches will be a blast, literally.

slapshakle

3 years ago

Spanca wrote

Nope. Does it cost more?

It's free. Theres also 2 other packs for 100 points each.

jecht_raiden

3 years ago

but Castlevania: Symphony of the Night was on PlayStation, how can it be put on the Xbox arcade? is that a decision that is entirely Konami? and Microsoft just bought the right to have it available for x amount of time??????? are there other games that are originally Nintendo games that are on XBLA???