Thanks to John Porcaro, I got a chance to go to this party last night. Street Fighter was great in all of it's 8-bit glory, Frogger and Galaga were very nostalgic (didn't get a chance to play Pac Man), but for me, the best game was Cloning Clyde - hilarious concept and execution, with the best use of animated sheep since A Close Shave. 
Microsoft's Greg Canessa, who conceived and spearheaded Xbox Live Arcade for the original Xbox and who now heads up the Xbox Live Arcade business, introduced a new standardized release program for new downloadable titles from this point forward. Appropriately called Xbox Live Arcade Wednesdays, the program stipulates that all Live Arcade games will be released only on Wednesdays, at 12:01pm Pacific time. Kicking off the new release format was Konami and Digital Eclipse's Frogger, which is now downloadable for a price of 400 Microsoft Points ($5). Microsoft also announced the release schedule for the remainder of the summer, which is as follows.-
- July 19: NinjaBee's Cloning Clyde-
- July 26: Namco's Galaga-
- August 2: Capcom and Sensory Sweep's Street Fighter II' Hyper Fighting-
- August 9: Namco's Pac-Man
Shacknews - Xbox Live Arcade Summer Lineup Preview
Stolen From [H]ardOCP Console
Update: Pictures of the party are up on Flickr , including a shot of me and Jordan battling to the death in Cloning Clyde . Melissa, please let your husband buy a 360, ok? Please?
