XBLA

Well, you know, that game, Limbo, the one that was nominated for the Technical Excellence and Visual Art awards in this year's IGF. Its mailing-list just sent out the first announcement.

The announcement is included below, but for those of you too lazy to read it, it basically says that Limbo will be released this summer... on XBLA!

What's this!? Well, guess those of us without a XBox are going to get stuck with nothing... Well, hopefully Limbo will pull a Braid and come out with a PC release later on, or else this will be a very, very sad day :(

A little game called Braid by Jonathan Blow was released on Xbox Live Arcade this Wednesday. The game, a simple flatformer that integrates the concept of time to create wonderful gameplay experiences, received ridiculously high scores from a slew of websites that you'd think this is the next Final Fantasy. Of course, although a PC version is said to follow sometime this year, the fact that it's a XBLA-only game at the moment means I'm not going to be playing it any time soon.

As a result, instead of rambling away with next-to-none first-hand experience of the game, I'm just going to quote some of the other review sites, which will likely produce a review just as interesting.