Peggle XBLA priced at 800MS points, adds 4-player multiplayer

by Xav de Matos { Sep 24th 2008 at 10:00AM }

One of the most addictive and deceptively simple titles in the PopCap catalog is Peggle. The concept is simple. Destroy all orange orbs by shooting a ball into an open area. Think Plinko with orbs. Once you make the shot the ball bounces around the environment raking up points and combos for hitting -- and thus destroying -- all of the colored spheres in the environment. Sounds enthralling, doesn't it? Well, it is and soon Xbox 360 users are about to join in the fun.

In an interview with Uncle Gamer Radio, vice president of PopCap Games Greg Canessa announced the upcoming XBLA release of Peggle will hit the service for 800MS points ($10 USD). Need some perspective? When it originally launched on PC the title sold for $19.99. Additionally, Canessa finally revealed up to 4-players will be able to compete both locally and over Xbox Live. Peggle has yet to land a firm release date but Canessa did confirm the previously announced level packs will not be ready when the title ships unlike some other DLC. As long as they don't go all Lumines Live! on us, we're willing to listen.

[Thanks, Virtonian]

Tags: peggle, popcap, xbla, xbox-live-arcade

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

joeybeast @ Sep 24th 2008 10:27AM

You'll be so hooked, it's not even funny....

Stephen @ Sep 24th 2008 10:49AM

**Tears of Joy** Finally! **weeps incessently**

Ryan @ Feb 20th 2009 5:57PM

I hope that they don't think they are giving us a 'deal' by making it cost 800 because the PC game cost 20. News Flash no one paid 20 for it, not many people will pay 10 for it. Games sucks, how about some real puzzle games or challenges.

kathode @ Sep 24th 2008 12:21PM

Ha, I definitely paid $20 for it when it first came out, and it was worth every penny.

Ryan @ Sep 24th 2008 11:30AM

Remember that the PC has a huge customer base compaired to this console...so they can afford to sell it for 20, I'm sure some suckers will buy it, but with a console its a much smaller base and half of that base doesn't even have an earned income, so gamble if you will, I know I aint losing anything on it

joeybeast @ Sep 24th 2008 11:50AM

Why all the hate?
Did Peggle violate you or something?

Why would anyone be gambling?
There's always a free demo.

ryan @ Sep 24th 2008 1:40PM

No hate just stating an opinion from a smart consumer...Not worth the money when you get the same thing free somewhere else...Your a sucker if you buy IMO and your only buying into inflation.

iFester @ Sep 24th 2008 3:22PM

Smart customer or bad pirate if you're getting your stuff for "free" since you know where to look and telling people about it?

Jonman @ Sep 24th 2008 11:38AM

I'm strangely excited by this. I suspect that Mrs. Jonman and I may well lose several evenings to this.

Do I need to surrender my hardcore gamer badge and (light) gun?

Tony @ Sep 24th 2008 12:13PM

At the same time, the base that owns a 360 is guaranteed to care about games. That's not true for the PC.

Plenty of people bought it at $20 so I'm not sure where that argument is going anyway.

Jcarpio @ Sep 24th 2008 2:50PM

Maybe the question to ask the guy is.. "where can you 'legally' download Peggle for free?"

Personally, i'm happy to see it on the service. My PC stinks so running it on there is not an option.

Hopefully it gets released in october or december. Please not november, there's already too many games that month.