Free Xbox Live Arcade Games! Huzzah!
Boy, Xbox 360 owners are getting so many goodies lately. Besides the future promise of homebrew XNA games, you can get, straight up, a free Xbox Live Arcade game next week. For the first two days, August 23-25 (6pm), Texas Hold ‘Em will be free, after that it’ll retail at its regular 800 Microsoft Points price. No one can resist this deal, I tells ya!
Besides that, Microsoft has announced a free Arcade game for the Xbox Live Vision Camera. The camera, which will drop around September 19 (according to reports) for $39.99, will include a game called Totemball, which is controlled entirely by pointing the camera at yourself and gesturing.
TotemBall is controlled almost entirely through gestures; that is, the game tracks a player’s arm movements to control a rickety, wheeled totem pole tower around each level, collecting items and trying to reach the exit within a time limit. Gesture-based gameplay is not foreign to Freeverse, who previously developed ToySight for the Macintosh, compatible with Apple’s iSight camera.
Here’s some game video:
(via Digg)
Hmm quickies #38…
- Go ahead, you know you’re dying to spell your name with Zombies
- Keyboard designers: the Caps Lock key is placed stupidly for these times. Considering how little it is used it should be moved elsewhere. Fortunately, keyboard remapping is poss…
Trackback by Things That ... Make You Go Hmm | August 16, 2006