Three New Xbox Live Arcade Titles Released

Xbox 360

Three great games will become available this Wednesday 2nd May on the Xbox Live Arcade for Xbox 360: Catan, Centipede and Millipede.

Classic board game Catan arrives on Xbox Live Arcade

Brush up on your plans for expansion and hone your trading strategies because Catan is coming to Xbox Live Arcade. Catan”from Big Huge Games is the Xbox Live Arcade edition of the legendary multiplayer board game Settlers of Catan. With over 10 million units sold, Settlers of Catan is one of the most popular board games to hail from Europe, and has been translated into twenty-five languages from the original German.

Catan puts players in the role of colonists on a newly discovered island, where they vie for control of valuable territory and resources through strategy and trading. The game can be learned in just minutes, but will challenge players of all skill levels, even the experts.

Klaus Teuber, creator of the original Settlers of Catan board game, had this to say about the collaboration with Big Huge Games: "I had no doubts that Brian Reynolds would do a great job, and the first version of the game exceeded my highest expectations. The AI is so clever that I even lost several games in a row! Hands down, this game for Xbox Live Arcade is an amazing achievement."

Two of Atari’s classics, Centipede and Millipede, will also be available for download.

The classic version of Centipede challenges gamers to defend their villages against an onslaught of centipedes, spiders, army ants and more. Xbox Live Arcade gamers will also have access to an “Evolved” version which features pre-rendered, high definition graphics, special effects like motion blur, trails and particle-based explosions that make this classic as enjoyable today as it was in the arcade decades ago.

In Millipede, the primary challenge is to obliterate chains of arthropods that creep down from the top of the screen. Scattered mushrooms are the gamers’ main tool to shoot, destroy and redirect the menacing millipedes. Millipede also offers Xbox Live Arcade gamers an “Evolved” version of this coin-op classic.

Where can I get Catan, Centipede and Millipede from?

You can download Catan, Centipede and Millipede beginning Wednesday 2nd May from 09:00 GMT on Xbox Live Arcade.

Catan will be available worldwide for 800 Microsoft Points. Centipede and Millipede will be available worldwide as a joint download for only 400 Microsoft Points.