According to Top 360 Tag's Top 50 XBLA Gamertags List, There has been a changing on top of the leaderboard. While ST TheKing is still number one by a long shot in the overall race, he is now behind RabbiLoWang when you look only at XBLA games.

Spong.com (always a good source of wacky rumors) is posting that an unnamed, off the record source is saying that we are going to be looking at a MAME-like feature on XBLA that will include tonnes and tonnes of different games (obviously not all of them as some of the publishers no longer exist, and some of the names start with Nintendo).
The Article also talks about an unspecified “major contribution” from Sega to XBLA to be announced at E3 next month.
As for validity of the rumors, we you can expect that a bunch of classic arcade games will be announced, but I really can’t see them suddenly jumping the number of titles to come even close to a quarter of the 3296 games. Also, everyone should be expecting Sega to announce support for XBLA (again) at E3.
You can read the article here

Thrills Killa, over at xbox360news.com, is at it agian. This time he has an interview with Hector R. Fernandez, the Chief Creative Officer at Streamline Studios.
Head over and check out what he had to say

Early this morning, VGM posted there latest podcast complete with an interview with Aaron Greenberg, who is the head fo the XBox Live Marketplace. One of the more interesting bits of the interview is when he talks about the possibility of Rare IP coming to XBLA. While he seems to say that Nintendo 64 games, specifically Golden Eye, are a little on the large side and are not currently in the works, he seems to imply that it’s just a matter of time. Greenberg also makes it sound as if we may see some 8 and 16-bit titles first.
R.C. Pro-Am and Battletoads anyone?
Head over and check out the podcast here.

pixelStorm announced on the official xbox forum recently that they had put out a patch for Bankshot Billiards. Here’s the post:   Here are the items we have addressed in the patch:

• -Ranked live games causing a freeze or crash
• -Player match games now show the other players aiming aid level
• -Default time for ranked mode games was changed to 60 seconds
• -When a timer expires in a live game the following player has ball in hand
• -Shot panel now shows the buttons that must be held down to activate the various features (english, spin, power)
• -200 games achievement now given away when 200 games are played instead of won (this is inline with the description now)
• -Single player leaderboards cap the display to hours now instead of a single hour
• -Music tracks would not sync to defaults when a client quit (in certain conditions)
• -3D camera modes (so this is only a 2D game, right?)

The 3D modes are accessed via the D pad during gameplay:

• Up: Reverts to the top view camera
• Down: Static camera (zooms out from location of shot)
• Left: Dynamic camera (follows action)
• Right: Cue ball camera (use the left analog stick to rotate around the cue ball and zoom in / out)

This took a lot longer to release then to assemble, so thanks for hanging in there!  

Thrills Killa, over at xbox360news.com, has an interview with Dennis Bourdain, a VP of Business Development, at Load inc.
Head over and check out what the ex UBI employee had to say

Co-founder of Stainless Games Neil Barnden was kind enough to answer a few questions about Crystal Quest, XBLA Development and there next game Novadrome.

So here is the second roundup of rumors around the net about XBLA.
Garage Games next game will be a tribes based game.
Rumor: Before GDC, video clips started surfacing that were being attributed to GG’s next game and how much it looked like an updated tribes universe.
Our Take: As reported at Kotaku.com, while GG did show a video at GDC that looked a lot like it could have been from the tribes world, it was actually just a demo of what there engine (named Torque) could do, and would actually be released to the comunity for consumption.
Road Rash is coming to XBLA.
Rumor: Pictures showed up and then disappeared that were supposed to be from a debug xbox and showed two gamer’s gamer score for serveral unreleased games including Uno, Poker, Cloning Clyde and Road Rash.
Our Take: The initial posting and then removal of these pictures seemed to lend a bit of creditbility to them, solely due to many people claiming NDA. Also, at the time, nothing had been announced about Cloning Clyde and google searches brought up nothing about video games at all. The next day, NinjaBee’s latest game was announced. The second hint, far more than the first leads us to think that this is a case of someone breaking there NDA and letting the cat out of the bag.
If this is just a rumor, then it means that someone who knew the name and had access to NinjaBee’s unreleased game faked up some screenshots to add in road rage. Seems a little bit far fetched to me.
That’s it for this week, and if you hear of any juicy XBLA rumors be sure to send them to rumors@xblarcade.com

According to VGM, they have found out that Street Figher II Hyper Fighting should be out by the end of April. Also, it should be priced at 800-1200 points. Considering the hype for this game, most people will be happy with the price with even at the high point it’s with Bankshot Billiards and MBU.
You can check it out here

So after hinting about it in our interview, Ninja Bee anounced Cloning Clyde, A side-scrolling platformer game. While there is no info as to a release date, the offical game page lists the game features as:
The full game lets you save your progress (including unlocked achievements and gamer pictures), and includes:

• Explore a visually compelling world filled with hilarious action and crazy adventure as you struggle to escape the clutches of the evil company Dupliclone, Inc.
• Play as a variety of mutant Clydes, each with unique abilities, including Chicken-Clyde, Frog-Clyde, Sheep-Clyde and more.
• 2 simultaneous players cooperating on a single console. Up to 4 players battling it out in versus mode on a single console for great parties and family play.
• Solve exciting and addictive puzzles with a variety of resolutions.
• Play not only as one character but also switch between hundreds of clones.
• Hours of fun with 2 distinct game modes including 40 cooperative levels and 6 versus arenas.
• Play online with up to 8 friends.

So head over there now to check out the game and some of the screenshots