New Oddworld Game On Hold While Old Games Make A Comeback

The Oddworld series has been one of the most creative, adorable, and all around fun I've ever experienced. So when news broke a couple years back that there was a new Oddworld game in production I was extremely excited.
Sadly, it seems that I'll have to wait even longer for a new Oddworld game than expected. The creator of the Oddworld series, Lorne Lanning, recently came out and explained what's going on.
"There's a lot of things the shelf right now," Lanning explained. "We had a few on the fire, and they're still on the shelf...there's a lot of shakeup going [in the gaming industry] and in that turmoil, we didn't really want to put the Oddworld brand out there in the middle of it, so we're working on some other things that we'll be announcing shortly."

Although this means a new Oddworld game won't be coming anytime soon, it's still around, and hopefully it will see the light of day "somewhat" soon.
There is some fantastic new however, the "Oddbox", a newly announced collection which includes all the Oddworld games released so far. Is scheduled to be released in the first quarter of 2010 on Windows through Steam. Having Munch's Oddysee and Stanger's Wrath in one package...I'm already getting excited just thinking about it!

Source: G4

Xbox Live to Stop Servcing Xbox 1 games on April 15th

Microsoft has recently announced that they will discontinue the ability to play Xbox 1 games on Xbox live starting April 15th. Microsoft has said multiple times before that they feel as though they are limited by supporting both Xbox 1 and Xbox360 console and so this change, in their view, is for the better.One thing in particular is the problem of only being able to have a 100 friends on Xbox live. This issue is being caused directly because of Xbox 1 support due to the fact that many of those games weren't meant for people's friends list's to be over 100 people. Three of the most popular Xbox 1 games that are still being played online today are:

Halo 2
Counterstrike
Crimson Skies

If you want to get any nostalgic game play on any of the original Xbox titles in, do so before April 15th.