No Xbox LIVE Arcade Games Released This Week
Seems another game is stealing all the attention
Date: Monday, April 28, 2008
Author: Jeff McAllister

Those of you who were looking forward to the LIVE Arcade release this week will be a little disappointed. As Xbox’s Major Nelson has pointed out, there will be no XBLA games released this week as his “guess is most people will be busy with another game this week.”

Hrmm…wonder what game that might be. With Grand Theft Auto IV being released the day before, it makes perfect sense to not bother with a LIVE Arcade release, but you know Microsoft, not everyone cares about GTA IV. I don’t know any of them, but I’m assuming they must exist somewhere.

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