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Doritos Crash Course 'City Lights' DLC stumbles onto Xbox Live
Xbox Live Arcade advergame slash Avatar masochism engine Doritos Crash Course has some new premium DLC available today. The City Lights DLC adds ten new courses to Doritos Crash Course, spanning Las Vegas and London, plus new versions of the Japan levels found in the vanilla game and new Achievements to unlock – all for 160 MS Points ($2).Doritos Crash Course is the winner of the Doritos "Unlock Xbox" challenge, which sought to give budding game designers a bulletin board to lay out their ideas; the best would then be chosen and have their games made. Crash Course is the brainchild of Jill Robertson, who won a hefty sum of cash for the killer idea and managed to best out the other top contender, Justin Carpenter's Harm's Way. In the end, both games were made and are free downloads on Xbox Live Arcade to this day.[Thanks, Jim.]
Doritos Crash Course wins Unlock Xbox challenge
You think little Jill Robertson ever imagined she'd grow up to be a game consultant ... for Doritos? As the winner of the Doritos "Unlock Xbox" challenge, Robertson will have the opportunity to work a six-month stint for the chip maker, baking up gaming ideas. She's also pocketed $50,000. Robertson's Doritos Crash Course beat out Justin Carpenter's Harms Way in the three-week voting period that began earlier this month when the two finalists' games were released for free on Xbox Live Arcade. According to Frito-Lay, the games accounted for more than two million combined downloads during that time, and they'll remain available as free XBLA games for the foreseeable future. In a "last-minute twist," Doritos also awarded Carpenter a $50,000 cash prize, though he would appear to be stuck at his plain old day job for now.
