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Fireplace now available in more countries

You can now get Fireplace for your Xbox 360 in Germany, Sweden, and Singapore, Japan is coming soon (11th August).

Download from here.

myFishtank update coming soon

Uploaded an update to myFishtank for review (If it passes it will be available on XBox in the coming days).

Here is one of the new features, a much improved save & load custom fish tanks (with previews of the fish tanks):



If you haven't already checked out myFishtank you can download it here for Xbox.

Community Uploaded Video

Someone created a video on how to make a fish tank using myFishtank for the Xbox 360:

myFishtank all for the sweet price of 200 Points

So far so good, IGN's Sam Bishop gave us an awesome review:

myFishtank
The Steve Zissou Award for Virtual Life (Aquatic)
Developer: SniperED007
Cost: 200 MSP

All you folks looking to fleece customers with your half-assed aquarium screen savers, take note: this is how it's done. Paint your own fish, drop a bunch in, throw in some gravel, plants, bubbles and so on and you've got the start of something interesting. Add in awards for maintaining and corralling your virtual aquarium and you have even more. Do it all for the sweet price of 200 Points and... well, now there's a benchmark, now, isn't there? If your screen saver can't do all that SniperED007's does, then don't bother.

We also picked up an award from XboxHornet:
The "5 Joystick Award", read the full review here.

myFishtank goes LIVE

Here is the link to download: http://marketplace.xbox.com/en-GB/games/media/66acd000-77fe-1000-9115-d8025855021c/?p=1&of=0&sb=2

myFishtank

Here is a preview of what we will be releasing soon on Xbox Marketplace:

Xbox Fireplace on special: 50% off !

Enjoy the awesome ambiance of a crackling fireplace in your living room. With realistic smoldering embers and flickering flames it sets the perfect backdrop for a relaxing evening.

The price has been reduced from 400 Microsoft points to just 200 points.

click here for more info & to download to Xbox

Some more Community Game Reviews

Xbox Fireplace Update Released

The update has been released, if you already have purchased it then re-download it to get the update.

Here is the link.

This weeks top 10 sold games

1 Golden Royal Blackjack (200 points) up 1
2 Air Legends (200 points) down 1
3 Groov (200 points) new entry
4 Johnny Platform's Biscuit Romp (200 points) down 1
5 Weapon of Choice (400) up 2
6 Machiavelli's Ascent (200) unchanged
7 Sudoku X (200) new entry
8 Word Soup (400) down 3
9 Dr. Popper (200) down 5
10 Foosball For Two (200) new entry

Top Community Games (by purchases) 29 Dec.

Top Community Games (Full Versions purchased)
1 Johnny Platform's Biscuit Romp (200 points) up 7
2 Word Soup (400) up 1
3 Fireplace (400) down 1
4 CarneyVale Showtime (400) up 2
5 Weapon of Choice (400) unchanged
6 EZMuze Break and House edition (200) up 1
7 Dr. Popper (200) up 3
8 Machiavelli's Ascent (200) new!
9 sin(Surfing) (200) unchanged for 4 weeks
10 Snowmans Dilemma (200) down 6

Other stats:
- Golden Royal Blackjack ends it run at no.1 purchased game 3 weeks. As it was removed from the Marketplace by the developers to resolve some LIVE issues.
- Fireplace demo is still no 1 downloaded CG (last 13 days)
- Sin(Surfing) has remained in the Top 10 list for the last 5 weeks.
- 4 out of the top 5 games are selling at 400 points

Top Community Games (by purchases)

This is the list of full versions purchased for the week of 22nd December:

Top Community Games
1 Golden Royal Blackjack (200 points) unchanged 3 weeks
2 Fireplace (400) new
3 Word Soup (400) down 1
4 Snowmans Dilemma (200) down 2
5 Weapon of Choice (400) down 1
6 CarneyVale Showtime (400) new
7 EZMuze Break and House edition (200) new
8 Johnny Platform's Biscuit Romp (200) new
9 sin(Surfing) (200) unchanged 3 weeks
10 Dr. Popper (200) new

Other stats:
- This week the 100th community game was added on Xbox live.
- Golden Royal Blackjack has been in no.1 purchased game 3 weeks running.
- Fireplace demo is currently no 1 downloaded CG (Community Game) for the last 7 days

XBox 360 Fireplace

Enjoy the awesome ambiance of a crackling fireplace in your living room. With realistic smoldering embers and flickering flames it sets the perfect backdrop for a relaxing evening.

Turn your TV into a virtual fireplace.

You can try the free demo by downloading it from here directly to your Xbox 360, or you can find it on the NXE dashboard under Community Games.


XBox 360 Fireplace

New Xbox Experience - Community Games video

Check out all you need to know on the new community games channel which is launching in November on the new XBox 360 Experience.

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Here is a quick preview of the game we submitted for this years Dream Build and Play competition:

Sell your games on XBox 360 Community Games!

Finally, Microsoft has announced that this year they will be launching the ability for anyone with a Creators Club Membership to upload and sell there games on XBox 360.

Microsoft will give you up to 70% of the revenues and send you a cheque every quarter.

Fur more detailed info and a list of FAQ check out the creators club website over here.

Dream Build and Play

This years Dream Build and Play has been announced !

There is $ 75 000 in prizes up for grabs.

1st Prize: $ 40 000
2nd Prize: $ 20 000
3rd Prize: $ 10 000
4th Prize: $ 5 000

And you have until the 23rd September 2008 to submit your entry!

Democratizing Game Distribution: The Next Step

Gamasutra have a 7 page article describing just how the new game distribution system will work in the beta of XNA 3 coming this Spring.

The article can be found here.

Something to note... the beta only supports the American region :(

Community XNA Games on XBox Live

Major Nelson also anounces 7 Community Games coming to XBox Live today for free.

Here is the post.