[quote user="Running Pixel"]The sentence "Dante's Inferno", despite there is an actual AAA game called in this way, is not a trademark. [/quote] Actually, if you search the USPTO (http://www.uspto.gov/trademarks/index.jsp) you'll find two LIVE filings for "Dante's Inferno" from Electronic Arts ...

[quote user="simiansoup"] I noticed a Massive surge in trial downloads of my game on friday and saturday in the U.S , does anybody know why this has happened??\ [/quote] Your game, along with 4 other XBLIG games, is part of the XBox Shocktober Sweepstakes http://www.xbox.com/en-US/community/events/shocktober/ I'm ...

Because we're XBLIG not XBLA. XBLA does not have the same restrictions we do, nor are they even restricted to using XNA.

[quote user="Jim Perry"]When you first start the game. Why would you switch controllers in the middle of a game?[/quote] Although definitely not something required, I can think of a few "why" answers on switching controllers. Your first controller starts acting flaky after you threw it at the wall or is low on ...

[quote user="The ZMan"] I hear that some numbers are bad luck in some cultures, and also some animals... so make sure to avoid nubmers and animals too. [/quote] Kissy Poo will never make it through review due to pink monkies...

I see a problem with these interpretations. Text and speech are not the only mode of conveyance of ideas, words, or phrases. How many people know which hand signals are offensive to which cultures? What about pictorial symbols? Even more directly sign language can be converted directly to other languages. It's a minefield of potential offenses ...

Hrmm... this makes me consider getting rid of the VERY sparse amounts of German in my game's cutscenes. It seems like this would confuse reviewers though, having a game marked English and German, but then the German reviewers not finding any german (the first sign of German happens about halfway through the game, after someone has likely been ...

[quote user="lefantome"]Yesterday trials are extremely low less than a half of the day before, Purchases in the same way. Did you have the same? [/quote] No, it's probably from your position dropping on the "new releases list". The lower your game gets on that list the less downloads you're going ...

[quote user="Running Pixel"]I'm really curious to know if this will boost their sales (apart from I MAED....) [/quote] Retronator (http://www.retronator.com/XboxPopularityMeter/Community) should help you track the increased exposure. We're already seeing games that fell off the bottom of those charts climb back in (Ghastly ...

Let's start off with a few things that say "maybe don't release now", then move into my actual opinion 1. The highest time for sales of XBLA content on the XBox360 was during Summer of Arcade. It's when Microsoft promotes XBLA the most, and it's when the most people are going through those sections of their ...