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  • Reminder: NCAA Basketball MME Bracket Pack

    by 
    James Ransom-Wiley
    James Ransom-Wiley
    03.18.2009

    The NCAA Basketball 09: March Madness Edition "Bracket Pack" update in now available from the Marketplace. The free patch will introduce this year's NCAA Tournament teams, including "authentic" team ratings and seeds, into the NCAA Basketball 09 XBLA spinoff, which was released last week sans demo for 1200 ($15).Unfortunately, we won't be leading St. Zeppo's Clown College to another Cinderella championship this year, as our alma mater forfeited to the Morehead State Eagles before yesterday's play-in match following an accident on the way to the game involving the team clown car and a suspiciously placed banana peel. Which, by the way, got us thinking: there really needs to be a sanctioned BOZO Conference, so St. Zeppo's gets an automatic bid every year. Ah well, there's always the NIT ...

  • This Wednesday: Peggle, Crystal Defenders & NCAA Basketball MME [update]

    by 
    Dustin Burg
    Dustin Burg
    03.09.2009

    PopCap Games' alarmingly addictive Peggle and Square Enix's Crystal Defenders will both be releasing to the Xbox Live Arcade this Wednesday, March 11 for 800 ($10) each. That is, if Major Nelson and his podcasting co-host, e, can be trusted (we think so!). This week's Peggle release isn't all that surprising, seeing that a recent press release confirmed a March release, but hearing that Crystal Defenders will complete this Wednesday's XBLA twofer, well ... that's just out of left field. Not that we're complaining or anything, we're just overjoyed that Bjorn will be giving our 360 an incurable case of "Extreme Fever." Update: NCAA Basketball MME is out too! (No demo available.) [Thanks, Liam G.]