Final Confirmation of XBOX Xyanide!...

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Why could retail cost be no more than £10? Yes it's a 'oldie style' shooting game but those graphics alone will sell it to casual gamers. If they released it, it might not be a hit but I'm sure it would sell pretty well.
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AAA wrote: retail cost for the game in the uk in current climate could be no higher than £10
Well, I don't know about the current climate in the UK, but here in the US new shooters for home consoles like Gradius V and R-type Final tend to come out at $30 rather than the normal $50. There are exceptional cases, like Shikigami II for $10, but my guess is that Xyanide will retail at $30 or more here.
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[quote="AAA"]just because the developer is showing the game in leipzig doesn't mean it will definitely come out

playlogic need a publisher - which is now looking really unlikely
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Yes, your right, its not a definitive sign, but its very likely that a puplisher will be found after a making a good impression on the game convention. If many people want to play it there, it should be that hard to find.
And this shows too, that playlogic hasnt given up hope that this will ever been released.

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As I read today on gamershell.com Playlogic gets an offical licence for puplishing titles. So Xyanide is coming out for sure, at the end of the year. Yeah baby, yeahhh!

Playlogic gets offical puplishing licence
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Defcon 5 wrote:As I read today on gamershell.com Playlogic gets an offical licence for puplishing titles. So Xyanide is coming out for sure, at the end of the year. Yeah baby, yeahhh!

Playlogic gets offical puplishing licence
Nice news. I wonder if the PSP version will be a straight port of the Xbox original, or completely reworked into a new game like the cellphone and GBA versions are.
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Defcon 5 wrote:As I read today on gamershell.com Playlogic gets an offical licence for puplishing titles. So Xyanide is coming out for sure, at the end of the year. Yeah baby, yeahhh!

Playlogic gets offical puplishing licence
That link seems to go to some random video card benchmark page...
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Vexorg wrote:
Defcon 5 wrote:As I read today on gamershell.com Playlogic gets an offical licence for puplishing titles. So Xyanide is coming out for sure, at the end of the year. Yeah baby, yeahhh!

Playlogic gets offical puplishing licence
That link seems to go to some random video card benchmark page...
Same here; are we certain about this?? And I never heard of a PSP port for this shmup. :?
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According to IGN, the XBox version is very much alive. They released an article on it late last month. Here is the link for anyone who missed it:

http://xbox.ign.com/articles/645/645628p1.html
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Well blow me down peeps - Playlogic are self-publishing after all.
Good luck to em.


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PRESS RELEASE: Breathtaking Shoot´em up Xyanide prepares its blasters for Microsoft’s Xbox
Press release supplied by Games Press 11:45 12/09/2005

Breda/Amsterdam 8th September 2005

After two and a half years of development, Playlogic International N.V. is now finalizing beta testing of its upcoming shoot´em up Xyanide, an action packed sci-fi game developed by the company's in house development studio, Playlogic Game Factory. With breathtaking visual effects, fast paced action and Dolby Digital sound, the game is set to revive the legendary shoot´em up genre.

It has been quite a while since old school shoot´em up games have been released on the Xbox, but now the long awaited Xyanide is ready to fire its rockets, laser beams, and smart bombs on hordes of challenging enemies.

The player takes over the role of Drake, a government executioner from the planet Mardar. Aboard a small fighting ship, his task is to guide the evil witch Aguira into the great maelstrom to be sure of her final judgment. But as an asteroid hits Aguira's prison ship, chaos ensues – and Aguira tries to escape her fate by creating worlds filled with the fiercest creatures, enemies and evil manifestations of her imagination.

You are the only one able to stop her and bring her to justice!

Xyanide is featuring:

- Six huge, dynamic environments to fight through

- Over 20 bonus items and ship enhancements with amazing full screen special effects

- Over 100 different enemy waves to encounter

- Mid- and end-boss encounters in each level

- Unique mutation factors influences weapons fire, damage given and taken, and power-up effects

- Diversified level design with many junctions, where player can choose directions

- Five difficulty settings offer challenging gameplay for beginners and aces

- Breathtaking Dolby Surround sound effects and soundtracks

- Perfect playability due to use of both analog sticks

Title: Xyanide

Developer: Playlogic Game Factory

Publisher: Playlogic International N.V.

Platform: Xbox

Release: Q4 2005

Price: 29,99 Euro

ABOUT PLAYLOGIC:

Playlogic International N.V. is an independent publisher and developer of entertainment software for consoles, PCs, handhelds, mobile devices, and other digital media. Playlogic, established in early 2002, publishes game concepts across various genres. The company distributes its products worldwide through all available channels, online and offline.

Playlogic is listed on the OTC BB under the symbol „PLGC." Its headquarters are in New York (US) and Amsterdam (The Netherlands).

Playlogic's portfolio includes games that are being developed by several teams at Playlogic Game Factory, Playlogic's in-house development studio based in Breda, The Netherlands, as well as games developed by a number of studios throughout the world. Currently, 9 games on 18 platforms are under development. Amongst these are the in Q3/Q4 to be released titles World Racing 2, Knights of the Temple 2, Gene Troopers, Age of Pirates, State of Emergency 2 and Xyanide.

Playlogic is always looking for additional, high-quality games and acquires products that can be exploited in the complete value chain of digital entertainment.
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Hopefully they'll open up preorders soon. While it's probably not going to be another Gradius V, I'll still happily support their self-publishing efforts to bring us a reasonably fresh take on the shmup genre.
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:shock: - quit foolin' around! I want this game! @_@
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wow.. screencaps look beautiful. we need more games like this!
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Nice Story too...
The ship is apparently carrying the witch Aguira, an innocent looking girl that has wreaked a lot of havoc around the alien universe, enough to earn her the name, The Scourge of Mardar. She is brought to the planet and presented before a committee of judges that sentence her to death. This particular execution is a doozey. She is supposed to be thrown into the black hole - or black maelstrom as it's called here.
Everything with the exectution almost goes according to plan, except that right when the ship is about to shoot her into oblivion, it's hit by an asteroid. This wouldn't be such a bad thing considering she supposed to die anyway. The only problem is that the asteroid that hit them was carrying a substance called Xyanide that makes thoughts come to life. The witch comes in contact with this stuff and all hell breaks loose. Huge metal-like masses appear out of nowhere and form gigantic structures. One little space ship that accompanied the execution team to the black hole manages to escape the vicious metallic tendrils spawned by the witch's dark mind. The only thing is that he's all alone, with an overwhelming fight on his hands.
Xyanide is for:

Cell Phones
GBA
N-Gage
PSP
X-Box
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ST Dragon wrote:Xyanide is for:

Cell Phones
GBA
N-Gage
PSX
X-Box
PSX? Is this a joke?
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Has anyone got the phone version yet? I've seen it on one of those fucking awful ringtone adverts that are on cable every 5 minutes.
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theevilfunkster wrote:Has anyone got the phone version yet? I've seen it on one of those fucking awful ringtone adverts that are on cable every 5 minutes.
In England you don'y say "f*cking awful ringtone" you say "bloody awful ringtone".

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professor ganson wrote:
ST Dragon wrote:Xyanide is for:

Cell Phones
GBA
N-Gage
PSX
X-Box
PSX? Is this a joke?
Sorry.
My wrong...
I meant "PSP"
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AAA wrote:Well blow me down peeps - Playlogic are self-publishing after all.
Good luck to em.


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PRESS RELEASE: Breathtaking Shoot´em up Xyanide prepares its blasters for Microsoft’s Xbox
Press release supplied by Games Press 11:45 12/09/2005

Breda/Amsterdam 8th September 2005

After two and a half years of development, Playlogic International N.V. is now finalizing beta testing of its upcoming shoot´em up Xyanide, an action packed sci-fi game developed by the company's in house development studio, Playlogic Game Factory. With breathtaking visual effects, fast paced action and Dolby Digital sound, the game is set to revive the legendary shoot´em up genre.

It has been quite a while since old school shoot´em up games have been released on the Xbox, but now the long awaited Xyanide is ready to fire its rockets, laser beams, and smart bombs on hordes of challenging enemies.

The player takes over the role of Drake, a government executioner from the planet Mardar. Aboard a small fighting ship, his task is to guide the evil witch Aguira into the great maelstrom to be sure of her final judgment. But as an asteroid hits Aguira's prison ship, chaos ensues – and Aguira tries to escape her fate by creating worlds filled with the fiercest creatures, enemies and evil manifestations of her imagination.

You are the only one able to stop her and bring her to justice!

Xyanide is featuring:

- Six huge, dynamic environments to fight through

- Over 20 bonus items and ship enhancements with amazing full screen special effects

- Over 100 different enemy waves to encounter

- Mid- and end-boss encounters in each level

- Unique mutation factors influences weapons fire, damage given and taken, and power-up effects

- Diversified level design with many junctions, where player can choose directions

- Five difficulty settings offer challenging gameplay for beginners and aces

- Breathtaking Dolby Surround sound effects and soundtracks

- Perfect playability due to use of both analog sticks

Title: Xyanide

Developer: Playlogic Game Factory

Publisher: Playlogic International N.V.

Platform: Xbox

Release: Q4 2005

Price: 29,99 Euro

ABOUT PLAYLOGIC:

Playlogic International N.V. is an independent publisher and developer of entertainment software for consoles, PCs, handhelds, mobile devices, and other digital media. Playlogic, established in early 2002, publishes game concepts across various genres. The company distributes its products worldwide through all available channels, online and offline.

Playlogic is listed on the OTC BB under the symbol „PLGC." Its headquarters are in New York (US) and Amsterdam (The Netherlands).

Playlogic's portfolio includes games that are being developed by several teams at Playlogic Game Factory, Playlogic's in-house development studio based in Breda, The Netherlands, as well as games developed by a number of studios throughout the world. Currently, 9 games on 18 platforms are under development. Amongst these are the in Q3/Q4 to be released titles World Racing 2, Knights of the Temple 2, Gene Troopers, Age of Pirates, State of Emergency 2 and Xyanide.

Playlogic is always looking for additional, high-quality games and acquires products that can be exploited in the complete value chain of digital entertainment.
That price is in Euros, are we sure this is getting a US release??
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ROBOTRON wrote:
theevilfunkster wrote:Has anyone got the phone version yet? I've seen it on one of those fucking awful ringtone adverts that are on cable every 5 minutes.
In England you don'y say "f*cking awful ringtone" you say "bloody awful ringtone".

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He localized it for the western forum members. :P
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theevilfunkster wrote:Has anyone got the phone version yet? I've seen it on one of those fucking awful ringtone adverts that are on cable every 5 minutes.
for awhile, and probably still now, you could download a windows version of the game for free. it was pretty meh, but i don't own a cellphone so i don't know the competition.
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