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Contents 1 Alien Hominid 2 Presence of Hexic HD on all Xbox 360 hard drives 3 Live Features 4 Image? 5 Xbox Live Arcade Unplugged 6 More 'genre' categories 7 65.188.148.23 8 Original Research 9 Problems with Pinball in Upcoming games list 10 Red Baron 11 Diner Dash 12 Table Formatting 13 Double Dragon Developer

[edit] Alien Hominid

Changed the release date to December -- Fortdeath 03:52, 4 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Presence of Hexic HD on all Xbox 360 hard drives

I don't think Hexic HD is installed on hard drives purchased seperately from the Xbox 360 unit so I have edited the section title where Hexic is located on the list of games available with Xbox Live Arcade. --Msc44 20:39, 29 January 2006 (UTC)

Hmm, I was told somewhere that it comes with stand alone hard drives. I dont know for sure tho because I bought a premium system. Can some1 confirm this? 007craft 04:40, 30 January 2006 (UTC)

[1] [2] from a quick google search it seems they do. --Chroniclev 18:25, 30 January 2006 (UTC)

I purchased a hard drive seperately with my Core Pack, and it came with Hexic. All HDD's, whether or not they're purchased seperately, come with Hexic. ferrarimanf355 20:58, 1 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Live Features

I like the table, but I think it seems somewhat redundant to have two that list all the games. Perhaps we can turn the latter into prose or something? --Chroniclev 02:40, 9 February 2006 (UTC)

I like the idea of consolidate them somehow. We just need to make sure we keep it easy to read (avoid lists, don't crowd information,etc). Any ideas? Defkkon 02:43, 9 February 2006 (UTC)

Yea I know its getting tight on the one table. Perhaps we could add a column that gives the initials of what features it supports with a key at the bottom, or something of that nature. --Chroniclev 02:59, 9 February 2006 (UTC)

Using letters with legend/key is a good idea. Feel free to take a shot if you want, I'm done my editing for the night. :) Defkkon 03:13, 9 February 2006 (UTC)

Ok I added it. I'm not sure about it though. What do you guys think? --Chroniclev 05:19, 10 February 2006 (UTC)

Pretty Good. I like it, but what about the upcoming games? (Fedding Freenzy and Astropop are on the Live Featues table) Maybe you can add it to upcoming games. JDUDE 07:20, 10 Feburary 2006 (UTC)

Very nice, Chroniclev. I'm going to go ahead and remove the features table. Personally, I think we should leave the features table out of the upcoming games. Once the game comes out and we know 100% what the features will be, we can add it to the current games. Sound good? Defkkon 13:31, 10 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Image?

I think we should have an image for this. The logo here is pretty nice (if you crop out the "Wednesdays"), but it has a background. (That's the most current logo, by the way - I think we should avoid using the old Xbox one, which isn't as nice looking anyway.) What do you think? Tophtucker 02:21, 16 July 2006 (UTC)

Good idea. I was going to put that in but I wasn't sure if it was an official logo or not. --Chroniclev 02:40, 16 July 2006 (UTC)

Ok its in, perhaps I could have cropped it a bit more though. --Chroniclev 03:01, 16 July 2006 (UTC)

Nice, where'd you find that? It's huuuge! :) I cropped it some so that it doesn't have so much white space. Tophtucker 03:13, 16 July 2006 (UTC)

Nevertheless, the file suddenly seems to be over twice as big. Whoops. I'll try to fix that... Tophtucker 03:15, 16 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Xbox Live Arcade Unplugged

There is a compilation of games coming out under this moniker according to gamespot.com. Where in the article should I add it or should I even add it? guitarhero777777 22:58, 25 August 2006 (UTC)

Yes, add it, because not everyone has internet on their homes, and this is a good option to play Xbox Live Arcade. Best Buy has it for $40, and it includes a 1-month membership for Xbox Live Gold. --MarioV 00:23, 24 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] More 'genre' categories

I was thinking of splitting 'Card and Board' into 'Card' and 'Board' as well as splitting 'Strategy and Sims' into 'Strategy' and 'Sims'.

It would be wise to add a Console Classics category with the upcoming release of Castlevania: SOTN.

No splitting. The lists of categories is what is on Xbox Live Arcade. Microsoft made it up, not us. These are official categories. We can't change them. guitarhero777777 01:36, 5 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] 65.188.148.23

Watch out for edits made by 65.188.148.23 I just had to revert the blanking made by him/her. They have blanked this page twice so far.

[edit] Original Research

I'm sorry, but the upcoming releases section is strictly Or. There are no refrences. So I believe that like the List of major commercial failures in computer and video gaming article. The upcoming releases section should have you cite sources before adding games because most of these games we really can't verify. guitarhero777777 18:13, 14 October 2006 (UTC)

We could, but at the moment we simply choose not to. Almost everything on the list has come from a website or official announcement. It's true that they aren't currently cited, but adding reference could negatively impact the appearance of the table. If you have a good way to add references without making the table look cruddy, please feel free. But in any case, it's not "Original Research". --Slordak 14:13, 15 October 2006 (UTC)

I ddin't even think about the table. While I know that its not OR yet, I'm just trying to stop the temptation of adding games that are rumored or games not announced but will probably end up on the service. I just wamt announcements. Maybe something on the external links section would be a good idea? guitarhero777777 15:15, 15 October 2006 (UTC)

I took what you were looking for and reworked the page a bit adding a "status" category that we can put in references and such to these games. Also, I made the section look more like the current games list. Added a few missing games too. --SoundOfLight 19:21, 2 November 2006 (UTC)

I noticed and it was exactly was I was looking for. Some of the other confirmed ones should have links, but otherwise I like it. guitarhero777777 04:40, 3 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Problems with Pinball in Upcoming games list

Are there really 2 different versions of Pinball? We have Pinball by Freeverse (which I think is the same as Pinball FX by Zen) and then Pinball Fantasies by 21st century. Are these 2 or 3 different games?--SoundOfLight 20:02, 2 November 2006 (UTC)

"I'm a little concerned that Pinball Fantasies is the only game without a status at all. Is a new version a rumor or has it been confirmed? It doesn't say. The trouble is, it's the game I'm looking forward to most (IF it comes out)." Matthew Daniels, 10:12, 11th November (UTC)

Honestly I can't even find the original source of this rumor. Is Pinball FX different than Pinball Fantasies? --SoundOfLight 00:28, 15 November 2006 (UTC)

If source of rumor or confirmation isn't found, delete it. guitarhero777777 04:53, 15 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Red Baron

Red Baron was never a "coin op classic".JAF1970 16:40, 1 November 2006 (UTC)

I think Microsoft is going to have to change their categories soon. Sonic the Hedgehog never was a coin op classic either (among others). Maybe a retro category will be coming to the arcade soon? --SoundOfLight 21:05, 2 November 2006 (UTC)

Actually, Sonic was a coin-op arcade game in 1991. Used a trackball instead of a gamepad. However, Red Baron, The Incredible Machine... those were PC games.JAF1970 16:40, 6 November 2006 (UTC)

Yeah and Castlevania was on PS1, but that doesn't change the fact that MS hasn't made a category yet, so should we? If we do what should we call it?--SoundOfLight 16:53, 6 November 2006 (UTC)

There are indeed many titles which seem to fall under the category of "re-releases of older games", but which were never actually coin-op. Perhaps we should simply list these under "Unknown" for the time being? --Slordak 19:56, 6 November 2006 (UTC)

That sounds likes a good idea. Anyone against that idea or with a different idea?--SoundOfLight 21:02, 8 November 2006 (UTC)

I'm against it. Put them in the categories that Microsoft has specified and if there are any changes, make them when announced. guitarhero777777 04:56, 15 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Diner Dash

Diner dash is speculated as being an XBLA game due to an E3 mobile games list of live anywhere games that included Diner Dash and Luxor (among others). I don't think it has actually ever been in any way verified that that would be an XBLA game though and not just a pc game.--SoundOfLight 21:02, 8 November 2006 (UTC)

I would put it under rumor for the time being. guitarhero777777 04:57, 15 November 2006 (UTC)

Yeah, I agree. Someone removed it though. A few edits back, not sure why because it wasn't me and the user didn't really say why he did it.--SoundOfLight 06:00, 15 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Table Formatting

Hi, I just reformatted the "games released" and "upcoming games" tables, hopefully making them a bit easier to read. I changed the Category column to be a full colspan row, which gives a lot more room horizontally for the rest of the columns. Feel free to roll it back if you like, but I think it's better. Cpc464 15:47, 19 November 2006 (UTC)

Good job. They are much easier to read and page thru. guitarhero777777 17:16, 19 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Double Dragon Developer

It appears some people are confused on the Double Dragon developer for XBLA. Technos was the original developer and Taito was the original publisher. Technos is no longer around, so they will not be the developer of Double Dragon for XBLA, since this is the XBLA version we're talking about in terms of developer... I put back the changes to the Developer to Taito (the publisher), since the developer at this time is not known. This kind of points out that maybe we should include publishers and developers in the list of game as this would resolve some confusion that, for instance, popped up on this title.--SoundOfLight 16:49, 29 November 2006 (UTC)