A Blast of a Game
Rocket Riot is a classic side-scrolling shooter that has returned to the Windows Store as an Xbox Live title. The game has over 200 worlds to blast your way through with gobs of characters and power-ups to unlock. It's nice to see the fast-paced game make a comeback and it remains a fun time waster.
Xbox LIVE
Rocket Riot has returned for Windows 10 and Xbox Live, bringing its usual brand of explosive pixel art action along for the ride.
Bringing it on back
Rocket Riot, the cartoony 2.5D arena-based shooter, will be making its way to Windows 10 as a universal app the developers have announced.
Xbox games for Windows Phone have fallen on hard times. New releases are all but non-existent on Windows Phone, and Windows 8 releases have dwindled to a smattering of casual games that Microsoft likely commissioned long ago. This has caused a measure of discomfort to some gamers who joined the mobile Windows platforms for Xbox Live games. I felt pretty bad about it for a while (a year...
Time was that Microsoft notified us of every Red Stripe Deal (then called the Xbox Live Deal of the Week) in advance. Sadly they stopped doing so many moons ago, but that hasn’t stopped our inquisitive nature. Today I was sniffing around all Wolverine-like and caught wind of tomorrow’s deals through unofficial channels – a day ahead of schedule. The Xbox Red Stripe Deal is Rocket Riot...
We’ve had lots to say about Rocket Riot lately. A few weeks ago it received an update that added Avatar Awards and asynchronous multiplayer, and not long after that we published our exclusive preview of the Windows 8 version – Rocket Riot 3D. Now that the phone games has all that fancy multiplayer challenge stuff going on, it needs people to play it. Luckily it’s going to be this week’s...
A short while ago, Microsoft announced 40 Xbox games that will release within the Windows 8 launch window. A few are titles that have never been released within Microsoft’s Xbox ecosystem, but many will be familiar to Windows Phone and Xbox 360 gamers. One such game we’re excited about is Rocket Riot 3D, developed in-house by series creator Codeglue and published by Microsoft Studios....
Rocket Riot was among the first Xbox Live games released on Windows Phone, way back at the end of 2010. Despite the game’s age, developer Code Glue continues to pump out updates for it, with a new one arriving within the last few days. The previous patch, version 1.4 was fairly substantial as Windows Phone updates go, and yet this latest, version 1.5 actually manages to top it by adding...
One of our favorite Xbox LIVE games for Windows Phone, Rocket Riot, has received quite a major update a few days ago with version 1.4. We've reached out to the devs at Code Glu for a specific changelog but they're off having croissants or something, so we're winging it: New icon - The old Rocket guys are gone and instead we have...rockets. Makes sense. Two ringtones - We love...
We have a feeling we'll be doing a lot of these posts for now on, but to start off, the Xbox LIVE game Rocket Riot (review), just hit v1.3 and in turn, is now Mango-fied (dun dun dun). (For the record, Flowerz was the first Mango Xbox LIVE game). That's good for that game as we ended up hitting our capacitive screen buttons often with this one, forcing the game to quit. That's not a lot...
Rocket Riot, the Xbox Live twin-stick shooter from Dutch developer Code Glue, received a minor update this week. Rocket Riot version 1.2 change log: Control bug completely eliminated Rocket Riot’s virtual twin-stick controls are extremely smooth and fun to use. But as I mentioned in our review, the game’s controls used to bug out occasionally in certain levels. That won’t happen...
Just a few weeks after dropping from $6.99 to $4.99 (and 36 hours since I just bought it, grrr), Rocket Riot is getting another price cut to the ultra-low $2.99. That's a really, really good price for a game that fits easily in my top five for Xbox LIVE games for Windows Phone. As mentioned in our earlier post: "Rocket Riot is a side-view shooter with retro-inspired graphics. It...
A few Xbox 360 Indie Games have made the transition to Windows Phone 7 games so far – Twin Blades (now sadly MIA) and Protégé Production’s upcoming tower defense game Armored Valley come to mind. We can now add Gnomic Studios’ Square Off to the list. Square Off started its life as an entry in Microsoft’s 2009 Dream.Build.Play Competition, where it scored second place for Australian...
The last Xbox Live title we saw drop in price on Windows Phone 7 was Glow Artisan (Review) way back on February 10. I’m pleased to report that this week an astonishing three games have been reduced in price! Max and the Magic Marker dropped from $6.99 to $4.99. Rocket Riot is back to $4.99 again, down from $6.99. Frogger was $2.99, but now it’s just $1.99. Frogger is the Xbox Live Deal...
Among Windows Phone 7’s most unique features is the Xbox Live service. The mobile versions of many Xbox 360 console games can find their way exclusively to Windows Phone 7. One such game, ilomilo (review), actually debuted first on Windows Phone 7 before hitting the Xbox 360’s Xbox Live Arcade service a few months later. Rocket Riot, from developer Code Glue, took the other way around:...
Star Wars: Battle for Hoth (review) and Rocket Riot (review), two Xbox Live games for Windows Phone 7, both received updates this week, but no release notes in their store descriptions or anywhere else. So we contacted their developers, Fluffy Logic and Code Glue, for details. Star Wars: Battle for Hoth v1.3.0.0 changelog: Minor tweaks to difficulty of some levels based on user feedback...
Rocket Riot (review coming soon), is probably one of the best Xbox LIVE games on Windows Phone 7 right now: catchy music, great combo of retro and 3D graphics, fun gameplay. Only downside was cost: $6.99 made it one of the most expensive games on the Marketplace, which even I avoided paying. Luckily in the last few days it dropped to a more reasonable $4.99, making it more worthy of...