When I was a teenager, a “house party” was a thing that happened when somebody’s parents went away for the weekend, and all the kids went over and raided the booze cabinets, listened to mix tapes, made out, and this one time, I vomited in a kitchen sink.
These days, a house party is apparently a series of single-player game launches on the Xbox LIVE Arcade. The future is really not what I’d imagined it would ever be.
Starting on 15 February, the XBLA House Party promo sees the consecutive weekly launches of four titles, including:
Elsewhere, there’s a bunch of ‘Must Have Games’ for Windows Phone being launched, starting “early February” and featuring:
- BulletAsylum (Microsoft Game Studios)
- Chickens Can’t Fly (Microsoft Game Studios)
- Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit (EA)
- Splinter Cell Conviction (Gameloft)
- Toy Soldiers: Boot Camp (Microsoft Game Studios)
