Confirmed! Ikaruga to the XBLA this Wednesday

by Dustin Burg { Apr 7th 2008 at 12:30PM }

Treasure told us last week, but today Microsoft made it officially official. The highly anticipated arcade shooter Ikaruga will make its way to the Xbox Live Arcade this Wednesday, April 9th for 800 Microsoft points. Ikaruga will feature five levels of shooter action, two player co-op gaming locally or over Xbox Live and include a video replay mode to watch all the destruction over, and over again. It's Ikaruga! It's releasing this Wednesday! It's Ikaruga!

Gallery: Ikaruga (XBLA)

Tags: ikaruga, treasure, xbla

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Gemini Ace @ Apr 7th 2008 12:37PM

Sweet! Glad I didn't buy the BSG game this weekend.

thisguyrighthere @ Apr 7th 2008 12:41PM

Because I don't have the room to keep my Dreamcast always connected I'll be picking this up for sure.

ccc @ Apr 7th 2008 1:01PM

At long last!

This is the caliber of game I wanna see comming from the arcade, not a bunch of useless puzzle games.

Jonah Falcon @ Apr 7th 2008 1:09PM

Some of us love those puzzle games.

DiddlyKong @ Apr 7th 2008 1:03PM

This game will destroy so many controllers.

mcwattersm @ Apr 7th 2008 1:27PM

They still make PS2 games?

ccc @ Apr 7th 2008 1:37PM

@jonah falcon

Hey I like the puzzle games too but its hard to see them come out every week.

I already have Astro Pop, Zuma, Puzzle Fighter HD, Puzzle Quest, Hexic and in my opinion the king of the hill Poker Smash.

So if a puzzle game is gonna hit it better be stellar, not boogie bunnies or Tiqal or bliss island.
Granted Tiqal was ok but I bored fast of it and I would actually buy BB or bejewelded 2 if it were 400ms.

I want Peggal, Baku Baku, Klax, Columes or something fresh and genious like poker Smash.

The fact that MS is opting to pass by titles like dodonpachi and release hordes of puzzle titles is placeing puzzle games out my favor.
There are already plenty of great Puzzle games to work your brain in the marketplace.

Tony @ Apr 7th 2008 1:55PM

Well, the problem there is that Tiqal is certainly more original than yet another port of Columns or Klax... I mean, you can't really say no more puzzle games and then say you want a bunch of really specific titles. Perhaps there's people out there that enjoy Tiqal and Boogie Bunnies just as much.

I think it's just a case of not being able to please every last person every week.

VanIslePimp @ Apr 7th 2008 2:07PM

Also this Wednesday, Void Star Creations will be releaseing two downloadable content packs for their popular XBLA game Poker Smash. Each DLCP will cost 100 MS Points. The new content includes two Action Mode Environments in the Environment Pack and an additional 15 Puzzles in the Puzzle Pack, giving players a total of 13 immersive environments and 70 mind bending puzzles.