Omega Five will be 800 points, while Tron will be 400. Both hit this Wednesday.
Nice finally something worth having.
TRON!!! Is this the old arcade Tron, or something different?
Cool. Either one of these would've been a good free one!
Omega 5 looks pretty cool - reminds me of Turrican 2 from the screenshots. That'd be a great addition to XBLA, used to be hooked on it on the Spectrum when I was younger.
Tron doesn't grab me, but I know that lots of people have been waiting for it so it's a good release.
Tron! I've been waiting for this ever since they announced it was coming last year. That movie really captured the imagination of the first video game generation. And I loved the arcade game. Really surprised Disney never made him a bigger character once video games and the internet became big.
Tron! Wow. I spent many quarters on that arcade game way back when. I think I'll have to go dig out the DVD...
TRON NICE!!! Watched that the other day with my 4 year old for the first time, she loved it... one of my fav. games in the bowling alley's arcade.
I'd say this is a good week. Tron brings back memories and Omega Five looks interesting enough. Thanks.
Man I love Tron and Discs of Tron I would love to pick that up.
But as much as I love Tron, I hate DRM. And when I said I wouldn't make another purchase until it's addressed and fixed, I wasn't kidding.
Thank very much for the information, Major Nelson.
Are those two titles available worldwide?
Major, someone from the license transfer department called last month and said that my licenses will be transferred by the first week of January. So far, nothing, but I'm checking every day. I won't even think about buying any Arcade games until the license transfer goes through.
Do you think you could do a podcast on the license transfer process? The problem affects so many people, but there's very little official information.
Yeah, I echo Neon Jebus. I got them all as they came out, then as the DRM limitations hit me I got only the ones I couldn't say no to... But from now on, not another penny out of me towards DLC or Live Arcade games until DRM gets sorted.
Oh Tron, what fond memories I have of playing you in the old arcade.
The Master Control Program has sentenced you to serve your system on the game grid!
Yes I'm old.
Old enough to remember when the MCP was just a chess program!
Neon Jebus says "But as much as I love Tron, I hate DRM. And when I said I wouldn't make another purchase until it's addressed and fixed, I wasn't kidding."
I can understand your fear. I think DRM is a necessary evil, but I live in constant terror that my 360 will fail again and I will AGAIN have to go through the hell of having to get credits to re-purchase my XBLA games on yet another silver account. When will they figure out how to transfer games from one 360 system to another (the "just login to XBL" "solution" just is no long term solution). It is so aggravating not having a transfer path.
Scuba Kev, I would be happy with the thousands of points to re-purchase all my downloads, but they stopped doing that. If they can tie the content to a console for machines which have been sent fore repair, then there is no reason why they cant do it for people that have a) exchanged broken machines at the retail store where they bought the 360 (which is what 99% of people do in the UK) or b) people that have upgraded to an Elite ore bigger hard drive. I'm hoping that if enough people have the will power to stop buying stuff then M$ will finally do something.
And Major, please tell us that after 2 years M$ is actually going to do something about this!!
Yay, more broken DRM games! Hooray for stealing peoples money!
I'm on the no-more-arcade without the DRM being addressed team! I think I've bought 35 or so arcade games, so I can go play those and demos in the mean time.
I fully support DRM, they just need to come up with a system that doesn't rely on my being online to play my games I bought.
Omega Five! Woo!!
Any news on when new titles will be released for the xbox originals program?
Cool! Tron. Unfortunately my family's been unable to play their DRM'd XBLA content on their silver accounts since my RRoD 360 was replaced three months ago. Had an offer from CS to refund my points so I could re-download them using a "dummy" silver account but realized that wouldn't allow for moving the harddrive between friend's consoles. So...until the family can play their games where they want,when they want, using their own gamertags (That is provided for in the EULA/TOS is it not?), I can't justify buying new games for myself.
Omega Five is a brilliant piece of hardcore side-scrolling shoot 'em up fun :D
Tron should be packed in with Discs of Tron. Now they're going to try and double dip by selling it later.
Wow loads of people moaning about drm problems
I will pipe in also
for solidarity
I have 57 dlc games that took me 6 months to get fixed from a rrod machine (cheers major btw)
This realy does need some sort of user transfer process in the dashboard
Deactivate Old Machine
Activate New Machine
Next time Old Machine's console id signs in to xbox live on any Gamertag
the games get relegated back to trials
And if you realy want to go ott with it
only allow this to be done once every 6 months or something
its hardly rocket science
Come on major push this issue more plz
Major, I've decided from here on out to purchase no more content until Microsoft adapts their DRM policies to accommodate the many users affected by the Xbox 360's questionable reliability. Whenever Xbox Live is down -- which, lately, has been quite a bit -- I cannot access most of the 30 or so XBL Arcade games I've purchased with my own money because I bought them on a console that got what's commonly referred to as the "Red Rings of Death". Because I bought every single Oblivion download (except horse armor) before my console broke, I cannot play Oblivion while XBL is down. The same goes for a few other releases.
Major, I'm not looking for a handout. I'm just asking that MS please adjust the way they associate purchases with users as to allow us to have full access to the content we pay for. After my Xbox died, I bought another one. That one was broken in the box and I returned that for another. I've got three controllers, a wi-fi adapter, a wireless headset, 2 play and charge kits, 20-something retail games and around 30 Arcade games, an Original Xbox and about a dozen games there, I've subscribed to Xbox Live twice and I've convinced at least a dozen people to forsake the PS3 in favor of the 360. Now, I have a much different story to tell. Not even going into the amount of money I've spent on non-gaming MS products (a few copies of Windows, Visual C++, Fable on PC, and I also own TWO Zunes), I've been a loyal Microsoft customer and I feel as though I'm not being respected as a consumer.
I understand your power in this matter may not quite be absolute, but you're a man of standing, and as far as I can tell, a good man that listens to his consumers. Please ask Microsoft to address this DRM issue. I'm aware that I'm not the only person affected.