In Japan you can acquire all kinds of products and services on the cheap. Broadband is very cheap, hotels can be rented by the hour (of course that's true here sometimes too), and then there's the Simple Series of video games.

The Simple Series comprises budget titles for every last-gen system under the sun. They churn these games out faster than humanly possible (it's widely believed that Simple is run by evil cyborgs) and delivery basic gameplay and visuals for a very cheap price. The games may not be anything to write home about, but they are cheap. I cannot emphasis that enough -- cheap.

And now they're heading to XBLA. Kotaku milked a D3 (publisher of the Simple Series) rep for information and here's what they found out. At least two Simple games are heading to XBLA. They may or may not be branded as part of the Simple Series. They will be cheap!

No word on what the games are, when they will arrive, or if they will even arrive in the West at all. We will just have to wait and see if they can squeeze some localization into the Simple budget.

[via Kotaku]