{"id":34664,"date":"2012-03-23T11:19:37","date_gmt":"2012-03-23T09:19:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=34664"},"modified":"2012-03-23T11:35:36","modified_gmt":"2012-03-23T09:35:36","slug":"xbox-live-arcade-lineup-brings-out-the-big-names","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/34664-xbox-live-arcade-lineup-brings-out-the-big-names","title":{"rendered":"Xbox LIVE Arcade lineup brings out the big names"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Company Information\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/11861-Microsoft\">Microsoft<\/a> has yanked the curtains back on the next big <a title=\"System Information\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/19908-Xbox-LIVE-(XBL)\">Xbox LIVE<\/a> Arcade promo, and iiiiiiiiiiiiiit&#8217;s&#8230; <em>Arcade NEXT! The Xbox LIVE Arcade promotion you&#8217;ll never leave the house without!<\/em> <em>Now with aspartame! 100% lead-free!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>According to Xbox LIVE overlord Major Nelson, these are totally this season&#8217;s &#8220;most anticipated&#8221; XBLA games, so let&#8217;s not get the fact that they&#8217;re also this season&#8217;s only XBLA games get in the way of that.<\/p>\n<p>Kicking off next month, the lineup includes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Trials Evolution (1200 MS Points) on April 18<\/li>\n<li>Bloodforge (1200 MS Points) on April 25<\/li>\n<li>Fable Heroes (800 MS Points) on May 2<\/li>\n<li>Minecraft: Xbox 360 Edition (1600 MS Points) on May 9<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Minecraft&#8217;s pricetag has apparently doubled on the <a title=\"System Information\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/21037-PC-Gaming\">PC<\/a> version sometime during console development. I guess it&#8217;s an exclusive feature, and <em>even better with <a title=\"System Information\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/19894-Kinect\">Kinect<\/a>!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The promo also introduces the new, increased Gamerscore and Achievements caps for XBLA titles, bumping those up to a maximum of 400 (from 200) and 30 (from 12) respectively. Goody goody gumdrops.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, here&#8217;s the official Arcade NEXT trailer.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QBfeQ2Idm-I\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"600\" height=\"335\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h5>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/majornelson.com\/2012\/03\/22\/announcing-arcade-next\/\" target=\"_blank\">Major Nelson<\/a><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ground Control to Major Tom, take your protein pills and put your helmet on<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":159,"featured_media":34012,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[31,333,2843,243,89,1933],"class_list":["post-34664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-xbox","tag-active","tag-minecraft","tag-trials","tag-xbox-2","tag-xbox-live","tag-xbox-live-arcade"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/159"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34664"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34678,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34664\/revisions\/34678"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}