- Q? Entertainment is delivering Meteos Wars, a two-player port of the Nintendo DS puzzler. Like most people, I enjoyed Meteos way more on the DS when using the touch-screen controls rather than the traditional d-pad-and-button setup. It just seemed much quicker and more efficient to move blocks around with the stylus. So I'm not sure how the controls will work out on the 360, especially with that awful d-pad. On the upside, Wars comes with some new head-to-head multiplayer action.
- PowerUp Forever is hitting courtesy of Namco Bandai. This is a top-down dual-joystick shooter in the Geometry Wars vein, with a little bit of flOw mixed in. You constantly get bigger and stronger as you shoot enemies--powering up forever, in other words--so monsters that were daunting in one wave will be puny and defenseless in the next. The game has a real psychedelic look to it that changes significantly every time you power up. We saw this one briefly at E3; looked like it could be neat, if you haven't reached your dual-joystick saturation point yet.
Expect both games to appear on Live Arcade in the wee hours of Wednesday morning.