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Gatling Gears: Hands on Preview

Gatling Gears is a twin stick shooter from Vanguard Entertainment. Check out my impressions after the break.

The local co-op was really solid, I’m interested to see how it plays online. If they can keep lag to a minimum, this could be a great game to play over Xbox LIVE. Unfortunately, the only info I have for a release date is Spring 2011 and there is no info on pricing.

Shoot Many Robots: Hands on Preview

Here we go with another new site feature that is all about hands on previews of upcoming games. First up is an upcoming Xbox Live Arcade Game titled Shoot Many Robots from Demiurge Studios.

On the surface Shoot Many Robots looks like a Contra clone but that is just the surface. Once you peel away a few layers you can see there is a lot more to the game than run to the right and shoot. Shoot Many Robots is a 4 player RPG and the general premise may be run right and shoot, but with a leveling system, items and weapons to collect, and beer to be drank. Yes, I said beer. In this game your health is manipulated by beer consumption, your currency/points come in the form of nuts, and there are silly costumes everywhere. Costumes do more than dress up your character, they change his properties. Some pants make for longer slides, some for better jumps. This game is full of silly hats (you might have to wear them all for one of those achievements, or possibly just dress like your friends) although, I did feel like the controls of the game were a little off, as it is an early build and I can look past that at this point. I can say I am very much looking forward to giving this game a longer look. I think playing it 4 player with some good friends will really elevate this games addictive qualities.

If you aren’t familiar with Demiurge Studios I think they might be OK with that. This is their first “solo project” but I think you are probably familiar with some of the games they have supported in the past: BioShock, Borderlands and, Mass Effect. There is little doubt they can put together a quality game with a resume like that. You can see the Borderlands influence in this one. The one and only CliffyB referred to this game as “BorderSlug” drawing the comparisons of Borderlands and Metal Slug. Borderlands didn’t let you wear a Pink Tutu and Viking helmet while carrying a big ass gun though.

The Design Many Robots Contest has already confirmed in coming DLC for the game (http://shootmanyrobots.com/media/design-many-robots-contest/). So expect some on going support for the title. Let’s just hope that DLC isn’t released day one. Yeah I’m looking at you Hard Corp Uprising. I will fill you in on more details and a release date when the information is available.

Microsoft Provides New Xbox LIVE Statistics – 6.3 BILLION Achievements Popped

“Each achievement can be worth a certain number of individual points within a game, which makes the 6.3 billion number even more impressive—that’s not a total score, that’s total unlocks. If one was to sum up the nebulous amount of points awarded from each Xbox 360 achievement unlocked by Xbox Live-friendly gamers, Microsoft says you’d get a gamerscore of 176,802,201,383. That’s a lot of gaming.

For the numerically obsessed, Microsoft says that an average Xbox Live user has a Gamerscore of around 11,286. To put that in perspective a bit, Xbox Live user Stallion83—who was listed in the 2010 Guinness Book of World Records for “highest Gamerscore“— sits at a score of 540,563 as of this article’s writing. And it’s not as if he’ll be slowing down anytime soon; It’s his goal to hit one million points in total.”

Source [PCMAG]

PAX East

Attending PAX east? You should stop by booth 150 and take XtendPlay for a spin. I’ll be hanging out and gaming all weekend long. Drop by and play some co-op with me! Be part of the 1 million journey.

World’s Top-Scoring Xbox LIVE Gamer Joins XtendPlay™ at PAX East

So Nice I Played it Twice

As I have been trying to think of ways to freshen up the site a little and bring more news to the page I’ve been looking for aspects of gaming and achievements most sites don’t cover. So here’s a new feature I thought up while wasting my hard earned money on the Internet this morning. “So nice I played it twice” is a feature exposing games with stack able achievements from around the world and hopefully making it easier for you to find and purchase them if you are into that sort of thing. Keep reading after the break for info on games that stack and where you can find them.

Venetica:

Venetica had been available in Germany for nearly a year before making its way to the US. It is rare a game Starts out in Europe and makes it’s way here. if you like action RPG’s this one may be worth a look with a minimum of 2 play throughs and 30 hours per copy. You could net your self a nice even 2000 points in 60 hours.