In their podcast this morning, VGM Daily had the first portion of there interview with Shayne Guiliano of Autonomous Productions. The first part didn't get into too much, but did reveal that he has be given permission to develop and release a game on both XBLA and Nintendo's Virtual Console. The game he is developing is titled "Butterfly Garden" and looks like it will be released on both consoles. It strikes me as odd, but I would have thought that Nintendo would have avoided having the same game on both as the XBLA version will have Achievement Points and HD graphics where as the Wii version will not. Since it sounds like the game is still in early development (and were talking about a very, very small team), don't expect this game to show up any time soon. You can check out the podcast here, and make sure to check back throughout the week as they publish more parts of the interview.

Well this week we only have one Rumor, and it's a bit of an old one, but it's a pretty good one none the less.

Introversion is going to be bringing the award winning Darwinia to XBLA.

Rumor: There have been many bits of info over the last couple of weeks about this, but the big ones started with Introversion being listed as one of the Independent developers working on XBLA titles at Microsoft's E3 Keynote. The biggest hint though was when Mark Morris started talking about how they were going to talk to Microsoft about bringing it to XBLA in this clip on SpikeTV.

Our Take: So you have Introversion going up to Microsoft asking them if they could bring the Independent Game of the Year winner to there system where they are trying to get great indie games...What do you think the answer was?

According to Finance Asia, Microsoft will be holding a developers contest this year for Korean developers to try their hand at developing some XBLA games. In an effort to "provide more localised contents to customers", MS will be selecting up to 5 winners who will receive development kits.

Could you image the number of entries they would get if they tried that in North America?

You can check out the Finance Asia post here.

While no specific date was released, Richard Thames Rowan, UNO Program Manager said:

"The UNO development team is aware of the problem that some people are having with matchmaking and has a fix going through certification right now. Hopefully, you’ll see this roll out soon, so no need to email anyone."

I know personally I've had this issue and it's great that it's being fixed, now maybe I can get those last two achievements. :)

You can check out the entire post on K1lla's Xbox Domain.

IGN has previews for both these arcade classics that are soon to make there way to XBLA. Also included in the previews are the price (500 MS Points) and a full list of achievements for both.

You can check Pac-man out here and Galaga out here.

Frankie, of bungie.net, was at his foggy best in this weeks update, with the following quote:

Spenser asks,

Marathon and XBLA: is it at all possible?

Of course it's possible, it's just not on any current agenda. If it's any consolation, many, many people think it's a good idea.

You can check out the entire post here.

During his interview with Major Nelson Aaron Greenberg was talking up some of the new games types that will be coming to XBLA, including totem ball, gesture based games and "A pinball game". While that's all the info available right now, I know of quite a few pinball freaks that this will please.

You can check it out here (the list is at about 36:45)