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Carcassonne This Week
Game adaption of popular boardgame hitting Xbox Live Arcade.
Date: Monday, June 25, 2007
Author: James Fudge

Microsoft announced today that the multiplayer, tile-based German board game Carcassonne will land on the on Xbox 360. as part of Xbox LIVE Arcade Wednesday. The classic, well-known European board game Carcassonne arrives on Xbox LIVE Arcade for Xbox 360 this Wednesday, June 27 at 9:00 a.m. GMT (2:00 a.m. Pacific).

Named after the medieval fortified town of Carcassonne in southern France, famed for its city walls, Carcassonne for Xbox LIVE Arcade starts with an empty landscape and a single square tile. Using strategic tactics and a little luck, one to five four players take turns selecting from 72 tiles displaying various features of a city including roads, the walls of a castle or fields. The medieval countryside thrives as players and their opponents place tiles and complete towns, roads, and farms while competing to accumulate the most points.

Carcassonne from Sierra Online is the Xbox LIVE Arcade edition of the hit multiplayer tile-based German board game of the same name, designed by Klaus-Jurgen. Shortly after its release in Germany in 2000, the board game won Spiel des Jahres in 2001, the European equivalent of a Game of the Year Award. Carcassonne will be available worldwide for 800 Microsoft Points and is rated E for Everyone.

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