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Xbox Avatars come alive in A Kingdom for Keflings
The "New Xbox Experience" system update on Nov. 19, 2008 introduced several upgrades to the Xbox 360's dashboard, and one of the biggest was the ability for players to create customized Avatars of themselves. A Kingdom of Keflings from NinjaBee Studios (who also brought us the Xbox Live Arcade games Outpost Kaloki, Cloning Clyde, and Band of Bugs), is the first game that lets players use their Xbox 360 Avatar as the main character.
Web Wednesdays: Flashcat
Flashcat is a neat racing game from Nitrome where you get to guide a kitty riding atop what appears to be some kind of wriggly spider through various courses strewn with obstacles and baddies. (Read more.)
Steals & Deals: All Games on Reflexive/Amazon for $9.99
Let the pricing wars truly commence. Today, Reflexive announced that all games on both Reflexive Arcade and Amazon.com (which bought Reflexive a few months back) will be $9.99 or less. No clubs. No sign ups. Just one set price.
Online storefronts for games compete for customers like you based on three factors: price, customer service, and content (i.e., exclusives). It'll be interesting ot see how this plays out, but one thing is for certain. With the recession not ending anytime soon, expect prices for casual games to continue to go down, not up. And Gamezebo will tell you about any price change as we see them in our Steals and Deals section!
Check out Reflexive Arcade and Amazon Game Downloads for all games at $9.99.
Rebel Monkey's Nick Fortugno previews CampFu
What does it take for a casual MMO to stand out from the crowd? In the case of Rebel Monkey's CampFu, it's team-based co-operative gameplay that encourages community rather than competition. Rebel Monkey was founded by industry luminaries Margaret Wallace (the former CEO of Skunk Studios) and Nick Fortugno, designer of the original Diner Dash. Nick sat down with Gamezebo to give us an exclusive preview of CampFu.
