Things On Wheels Coming To XBLA

SouthPeak games is entering the Xbox Live Arcade ring, partnering with Load Inc. - the creators of XBLA racing game Mad Tracks - to create Things On Wheels, an RC car racing title due out this summer.

"We've been looking to move into Xbox LIVE Arcade titles and Load Inc. wanted to do something brand new with the racing genre. This really appealed to us," said Melanie Mroz, CEO of SouthPeak Games. "Competing with real life remote control cars is great fun, so why not do it in a videogame?

So completely new! No one has ever done the mini-cars racing through large environments thing before, unless you count all those Micro Machine games, or the RC series, or maybe Mad Tracks for the PC and XBLA. Other than that - and countless other titles - no...never been done. Let's hear it for innovation! More »

XBL DLC Love - Sylpheed, Vampire Rain, Mad Tracks

Along with the release of Wing Commander Arena and Super Contra on Xbox Live Arcade, today sees Xbox Live bursting at the seams with new downloadable content of both the paid and free varieties. Project Sylpheed heads up the list with six new challenge missions complete with six powerful weapons, along with leaderboard support to track your rank. Next up is Chocolate Vampire Rain, a game described to me as Splinter Cell with Vampires, only not nearly as good. Available free today is VR Bonus Level 2, a mission that has you gathering equipment as Duane Hanson. Mmmbop. Finally today we have part three of the Xbox Live Mad Tracks trilogy, the Bravo Expansion Pack. 350 points nets you seven new races and eight original mini-games. More »

Mad Track Encore Pack Available

Hopefully by now you've already got the patch working on the game, so perhaps it's time to supe up those tracks so yo can go mad on them: More »

Mad Tracks Glitch Gets a Patch

Mad Tracks, the new racing game that turned up recently on Xbox Live Arcade, has been having some troubles as of late. Players who downloaded the trial version and then upgraded to the full version experienced problems unlocking the mini-games and various other racetracks. Game developer, Slyben, has already burned the midnight oil and made a patch to fix the issues and delivered it to Microsoft. If you were one of the unfortunate ons that this happened to, keep your eyes peeled for the new patch which should be made available as soon as the great MS deems it ready to roll out. Flynn De Marco More »

Live Wednesday: Mad Tracks

Tomorrow might be seeing the sad return of the single game Xbox Live Arcade Wednesday, but if ever there was a game that could stand on its own, it's Mad Tracks from D3 Publisher. It's 3D racing with stackable power-ups and quirky tracks that let you drive twelve different mini-cars around giant environments. The game includes six races and nine mini-games for up to 4 players split-screen or via Xbox Live. More »

Mad Tracks for XBLA Interview

It looks like a fun racer in the Re-Volt vein might be coming to XBox Live soon. The unfortunately titled blod K1lla's XBox Domain has an interview with Dennis Bourdain of Load Inc. talking about the company's plans to port their PC toy car racer Mad Tracks over to Live. More »