2 posts tagged “xbox 360”

Alien Hominid HD is coming to Xbox Live Arcade. You probably missed out on this one the first time around, so if you or someone you know has an Xbox 360, you owe it to yourself to check out this delightfully quirky take on the old-school side-scroller. Instant deaths, continues, bosses with shot patterns you have to memorize in order to beat; it's the same run-and-gun soup you remember from back in the day, lovingly reheated for this millennium. Get it.

With the new year comes new buzzwords: The Promogame is a game “whose primary purpose is to promote the purchase of a product or service secondary or incidental to the game itself”, the most notable recent example being Burger King’s trio of Xbox 360 titles. It’s pretty exciting watching the marketing moves this company makes: these are guys who know exactly who their target audience is and have the balls to dress guys up in bizarre costumes and freak the hell out of people if it’ll get a reaction. I’ll bet that one “Where Is Your God Now?” image macro is exactly the kind of thing Burger King wants.

(Also, you can tell that this is a Sophisticated Gaming Article by the dense prose and the fact that it takes more than half the article for the author to state the thesis.)