Get ready to roll! D3Publisher is pleased to announce that RocketBowl blasts onto Xbox LIVE® Arcade for Xbox 360® on September 10th!

A refreshing twist on a classic sport, RocketBowl™ offers a 50’s style retro-futuristic vibe, out-of-this-world courses and rocket-powered bowling balls; Rocket Bowl rolls a perfect game of fun on the Xbox LIVE® Arcade. Players will compete in tournaments, challenge their friends in multiplayer, test their bowling skills and more!

Game Features

Rocket-Powered Bowling Balls – Rocket powered balls boost, jump and turn to help players knock down the pins and earn extra points with wild shots.

10 Crazy Bowling Courses – In addition to a regular bowling alley, RocketBowl features 9 crazy courses filled with ramps, tunnels, loops, hills, curves and more to create a bowling experience like never before.

Fun and Varied Single-Player Mode – Single-player RocketBowl allows players to take on the variety of courses in Free Play mode; or challenge the course pros in Tournament and Challenge mode where they can wager and win money to upgrade their equipment.

Exciting Multiplayer Matches – Up to 4 friends can compete against each other over Xbox LIVE or locally on one system. Xbox LIVE play features Player (unranked) and Ranked matches.

Upgrade Your Equipment – Using cash earned by winning matches, players can upgrade from more than 15 unique bowling balls including Strawbally, 8-Ball, the Jupiter 5000 and the Kalamazoo Special – more powerful bowling balls feature enhanced boost and curve abilities.

Players will enjoy the robust, full game features of RocketBowl for 800 Microsoft Points. RocketBowl was developed by 21-6 Productions Inc., and is rated “E” (Everyone) by the ESRB.

Popularity: 9%

Well yesterday i downloaded Geometry Wars Retro Evolved 2 from XboxLive and like its predecessor Geometry Wars Retro Evolved, the game is solidly built and handles and plays extremely well and as always its addictive. The game features six game modes Deadline, King, Evolved, Pacifism, Waves, and last but not least Sequence.

In Deadline you have to get as much points as you can in three minutes with unlimited lives, but every time you die you lose your multiplier equaling to less points per kill.

In King you have only one life and no bombs. Circular safety zones appear randomly game space. Enemies and Geoms cannot enter these zones, and the player can only fire while inside one. The zone shrinks and disappears a short time after it is entered, forcing the player to move from zone to zone.

In Evolved you’re back to square one, this plays just like the older Geometry Wars games but for some reason they have taken out gun upgrade (at least up 10,000,000. which is all i can get to) so that makes the game much harder than the older versions.

In Pacifism you have only one life and cannot shoot… at all, the only thing you can do is fly through dumbbell looking gates (—-) to kill the blue squares and while your at it you should try to go around in a square circle, twice around the border of the map to get two achievements (Wax On, Wax Off).

In Waves you have one life and must avoid and destroy waves of rockets that fly horizontally and vertically from the edges of the game space. after 240,000 points some normal enemies start to appear on the map to make things harder but this time the stand nearly still so you can hit them while trying to run away from waves of yellow/orange spaceships.

In Sequence you must finish twenty levels, each with a predetermined pattern of enemies. You have thirty seconds to destroy all of the enemies in each level. If the player loses a life, they are taken directly to the next level, but the game ends if the player loses all of their lives.

All in All the game is suprb and deserves a 8/10

Popularity: 5%

Vigilante 8 Arcade Picture

The Isopod Labs Team behind Vigilante 8: Arcade has announced that the game has been submitted to Microsoft for certification:

It’s been a long road, but… the game was released to Microsoft today for what we hope to be *final* submission. Cross your fingers!

Vigilante 8: Arcade is an all new remake of the original game, featuring online play with up to eight players and a host of new content, taking full advantage of next-generation technologies.

Vigilante 8: Arcade delivers a fully-loaded remake of the original smash hit, allowing gamers to rediscover the exhilarating gameplay of weapon-based off-road vehicle combat. Rebuilt from the ground up and featuring five newly designed, highly interactive arenas and eight tricked out 70s-style vehicles, players are armed with a variety of explosive weapons as they head into intense deathmatch battles. For the ultimate high-octane, uninhibited multiplayer experience, Vigilante 8: Arcade also features both local and online versus or co-op modes, allowing players to unleash their firepower and car-crushing skills with up to eight players worldwide.

Popularity: 6%