Microsoft Discusses Xbox E3 No-Shows

Thanks to GameSpy for its 'Sole Food' column discussing why certain Xbox games were missing from Microsoft's line-up at last month's E3 show in Los Angeles. Titles mentioned, with included late-breaking Microsoft response, include "part action, part collectible-card game" Phantom Dust ("Microsoft Game Studios has decided to not publish Phantom Dust for North America"), action title and "everyone's favorite goggle-wearing, vacuum-wielding, time-shifting cat" Blinx 2 (We plan to make an official announcement after E3"), and "console massively multiplayer online RPG" True Fantasy Live Online ("The Level 5 team is focusing on developing and polishing the game for the Japanese release this winter, and as a result the timing of the U.S. release of the game is still undetermined.")

Comments

Re:HL2

[Wuukie]

I think Valve said in an interview (couldn't find it, though, sorry) that they'll first finish HL2 on PC before they make anything with the ports.

So maybe that's why. There just isn't anything to tell about.

Re:Aptly enough

[MrScience]

This was one game that I was reeealy looking forward to. With 4-person gameplay, each person with a unique mixture of skills (from a pool of over 300), and fully deformable environments (use telekenisis to grab a piller to bash one oponent, while causing the walkway to collapse on another oponent), it looked extremely fun.