{"id":1251,"date":"2006-09-14T10:13:32","date_gmt":"2006-09-14T10:13:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/?p=1251"},"modified":"2006-09-14T10:13:32","modified_gmt":"2006-09-14T10:13:32","slug":"xbox-live-arcade-microsofts-real-trojan-horse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/archives\/1251","title":{"rendered":"Xbox Live Arcade: Microsoft&#8217;s real trojan horse."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some people get all excited by flashy titles like <i>Gears of War,<\/i> but I&#8217;m convinced that the real hidden goldmine in the next-gen systems are games like <a title=\"PAX: The Castle Crashers test - Joystiq\" href=\"http:\/\/www.joystiq.com\/2006\/09\/10\/pax-the-castle-crashers-test\/\"><i>Castle Crashers<\/i><\/a> from The Behemoth (the same guys who did <i>Alien Hominid<\/i>).  As soon as I saw the footage from PAX, I knew this was a game I desperately wanted to have &#150; it&#8217;s a serious throwback to the old four-person button-mashing days of <i>TMNT<\/i> and the arcade <i>X-Men<\/i> games.  Dude.  <i>Duuuude.<\/i>  Talon, if you&#8217;re reading this, it&#8217;s <i>on.<\/i><br \/>\nAlso, the big game news this morning is that the Nintendo Wii is set to drop on November 19th with a price tag of $250 and the new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zelda.com\/universe\/game\/legendzelda\/\"><i>The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess<\/i><\/a> will be one of its launch titles.  Time to start saving those nickels and clearing some space in my schedule &#150; because Nintendo&#8217;s own &#8220;virtual console&#8221; will provide classic games for $5, $8 or $10, depending on which old console the game was originally published for, and that <i>alone<\/i> will suck up whole weekends.  Oh, yes.  Bring it on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some people get all excited by flashy titles like Gears of War, but I&#8217;m convinced that the real hidden goldmine in the next-gen systems are games like Castle Crashers from The Behemoth (the same guys who did Alien Hominid). As soon as I saw the footage from PAX, I knew this was a game I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4e5QR-kb","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1251\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}