Our family has only been owners of the Xbox 360 since April, but we quickly fell for the Xbox 360 Arcade. Ok, well, at least four of the five have. Our oldest teen likes the puzzle action of Hexic, our middle teen guzzles any game with achievement points and our youngest teen has enjoys Geometry Wars.

We also noticed that new Live Arcade games have been slow in coming. I remember reading a promise somewhere (but don’t have the link) that suggested new games would be released “monthly” but that really hasn’t been the case.

Xbox captain Peter Moore explained to Edge Magazine why this drought has happened and teases us more with the following nugget:

Now all of a sudden we’re in this phase where Sega, Namco, Konami, Midway… they want some of that. But we do have an important quality bar in place - we could probably throw 300 games up there quickly, and we are trying to get the independent guys going as well. It’s almost going to be like Pop Idol, where someone will pop out suddenly - Geometry Wars is a great example.

Don’t need 300 to appear all at once, just a couple new games a month would be nice. A couple new games every week would be a dream. But at the very least one new game a month. Have to have that or the good thing that is Live Arcade could stale. I can probably play games like Robotron 2084 for the rest of my life and never tire of them, but part of the fun of the Live Arcade is high scores, that classic arcade comradarie, across the world. The success of global leaderboards depends on many, many people continuing to play.

Recently they released Street Fighter art as a dashboard download and put that under the new “games” download section. No thanks, bring on Capcom’s actual Street Fighter arcade game. While they are at it they should get in touch with the greatest 2D fighter creator on the planet, SNK, and start porting those games to Live Arcade. If they haven’t already started talking, of course.

Yesterday we sent out our broken Xbox 360 and begin the wait for repair and return. It was sent to Texas via 3-day ground UPS. You can see our son carrying it in the picture above. They had sent the empty box for the 360 to the wrong address, but luckily the UPS driver knew who we were (we receive packages almost daily and it’s a small town where our business and home are located) and delivered the package anyway.

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