Since LucasArts launched Lucidity on the Xbox LIVE Arcade, they have been monitoring responses from players about their new game and revealed that “It’s been a really valuable experience to track the response from people to this experimental new game we put together. We’ve had some fantastic, supportive fans and positive responses and have gotten some great reviews from sites such as Edge, Eurogamer and Official Xbox Magazine,” via David Nottingham

At the same time, as many of you may have seen, LucasArts has also been getting feedback about the difficulty of the game, and that people are finding it particularly punishing. “We’ve seen comments about the lack of checkpoints in the game. At the time that we balanced the game, we designed the levels to be fairly short and the restarts as quick as possible and we felt that the game would be fine without checkpoints.”

Blitz Arcade and XBLArcade.com have teamed up to give away a free redemption codes for their Xbox™ LIVE® Arcade game Encleverment Experiment™, a clever game for clever gamers.

Encleverment Experiment is an Avatar™-supported original title for 1-4 players that takes place in the funky laboratory of eccentric Professor Ivor Question. The game is a fun and frenetic “battle of wits” where players test their memory, reflexes, and dexterity by responding to rapid-fire questions with multiple possible answers. The game’s questions range from easy (for gamers starting age five) to difficult (for adults), making Encleverment Experiment a great game for children, teens, and adults playing alone or in groups. It’s also an ideal game for families to play together. Response time and accuracy are rewarded with Noodles, the in-game currency. The game’s challenge is to accumulate Noodles, but being faster and cleverer than your friends and family are fun challenges too!

Paramount Digital Entertainment, Bad Robot Interactive, CBS Consumer Products and Naked Sky Entertainment have announced that new content for the Star Trek®: D-A-C video game is now available for download via Xbox LIVE® Arcade. For players that previously purchased the game on Xbox LIVE Arcade, the new content for Star Trek: D-A-C is available as a free download. New players can purchase the updated game on Xbox LIVE Arcade for 800 Microsoft Points.

Star Trek: D-A-C is a fast-paced, top-down space shooter where up to 12 players can compete in intergalactic battles between Starfleet and the Romulan Empire. Since its maiden voyage on Xbox LIVE® Arcade earlier this year, Star Trek: D-A-C has been expanded with two additional ship classes, a single player game mode, several new pick-ups, a new map for Assault Mode, enhanced gameplay features and more.

Blitz Arcade, a division of leading UK developer Blitz Games Studios, is throwing down the gauntlet and challenging the worldwide community to battle it out against them on their XBLA game Encleverment Experiment between 11 am and 3 pm EST / 8 am and noon PST / 4 pm and 10 pm GMT on Thursday, November 26, 2009.

The star of Blitz Arcade’s Encleverment Experiment, Professor Ivor Question, invites you and your family to challenge the Blitz team on Thursday. See if you can ’out-clever’ the very clever team that developed the hit XBLA game Encleverment Experiment. Perhaps your biggest competitive edge (other than being a genius!) is your opponents’ gluttony – turkey contains tryptophan which accelerates the body’s production of serotonin which causes the brain to get sleepy. So, the more your family eats, the slower they react, and you can blitz your way to a fast-paced victory!

Feel the excitement of the NFL with a fun, fast-paced, 5-on-5 football experience. Madden NFL Arcade for Xbox LIVE Arcade brings the 10 best players from each of the 32 NFL teams on offense and defense together to battle it out on the gridiron. No penalties, no clock, just pure adrenaline, as each team has four downs to march 60 yards downfield for the score. Madden NFL Arcade takes everything you love about your favorite NFL stars and stadiums and brings them to life in a fun, high-scoring gridiron battle!

“Madden NFL Arcade” sacks the QB on November 25th at 9 a.m. GMT (2:00 a.m. PDT).

Published by Electronic Arts and developed by EA Tiburon, “Madden NFL Arcade” will be available for 1200 Microsoft Points everywhere and is rated E for Everyone by the ESRB. For more details on “Madden NFL Arcade” you can visit: http://www.xbox.com/games/m/maddennflarcadexbla/ or http://www.xblarcade.com/node/2429

Legions of long-time fans and a whole new generation of gamers around the world can now experience serious shooting mayhem as Majesco Europe, an innovative provider of video games for the mass market, today announced that Serious Sam: The First Encounter HD is coming to Xbox LIVE® Arcade for the Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system from Microsoft this December. Developed by Croteam, the creators of the Serious Sam franchise, and produced in partnership with Devolver Digital, Serious Sam: The First Encounter is re-tooled and re-vamped in glorious High Definition with an all-new version of the CroTech engine.

“We are really excited to update our hero and recreate Sam in stunning high definition for Xbox LIVE Arcade players,” said Roman Ribaric, CEO of Croteam. “The fans have lobbied us hard to do this, so we are stoked about bringing Sam back as big, bold and bad as he ever was.”

Electronic Arts recently announced an all-new way to experience the Madden NFL franchise with Madden NFL Arcade – a fun, pick-up-and-play, 5-on-5 football game from EA Tiburon. Madden NFL Arcade is pure adrenaline football for both casual and diehard NFL fans, featuring a unique art style that brings your favorite players to life like never before! Madden NFL Arcade will be available as a download on Xbox LIVE Arcade for 1200 Microsoft Points, just in time for the holidays.

“When you look around the office and see your whole team playing and having tons of fun with it, you know the game hit the right mark,” said marketing director Nathan Stewart. “We have diehard Madden fans who have worked on the franchise for a decade, and more casual gamers who are all playing together and enjoying it. If our productivity the past few weeks is any indication, we’ve created a game that everyone will love.”

Codeglue, a Dutch game development studio that has honed the craft of addictive gameplay, is happy to announce they have won a coveted Dutch Game Award! Codeglue’s Rocket Riot – which was released on Xbox LIVE® Arcade for the Xbox 360® to critical acclaim – walked away with the show’s Best Visual Design Award, beating out huge titles with multi-million dollar budgets such as Killzone 2 and Overlord 2.

“We are absolutely thrilled to win this award, not only because of the level of competition we were up against but also because we know that Rocket Riot is an outstanding title with a look and feel all its own,” said Peter de Jong, CEO and founder of Codeglue. “Our team is so proud and our sincere thanks go out to everyone who has supported us and our titles over the years.”

VALCON GAMES has announced that it will bring Polar Panic to Xbox LIVE Arcade for the Xbox 360 video game and entertainment system from Microsoft. Valcon Games LLC is video game publishing company that delivers unique and creative software such as the Polar Panic, the classic arcade-style game with an arctic twist.

The setting of the game may be ice cold, but the gaming action is HOT in this classic arcade-style puzzle action game. With 50 levels of single-player madness in story mode, and 50 mind-numbing puzzle levels, along with single and multiplayer survival modes, Polar Panic will heat up gaming for players during the Holiday season and beyond. Developed and designed by Eiconic Games, Polar Panic will launch for the Xbox LIVE Arcade on December 23rd, 2009.

Focus Home Interactive and Load Inc are pleased to present for the first time, and in video, the game "Things on Wheels" available soon on Xbox Live Arcade!

Things on Wheels – ToW – is a fun and fast remote-controlled car racing game that is playable in single or multiplayer (up to 4 players)!

ToW is a straight forward racing game pitting tricked out remote control (RC) cars against one another in unique, household settings. Best described as "a tribute to ReVolt,” the arcade side is reinforced by a simple pick up and play system that makes it easy to get anyone into the mix. For the racing connoisseurs out there, the state of the art car physics and control dynamics of ToW’s competitive racing will surely impress. Play locally with friends on a split-screen, or online via Xbox Live. Use in-game bonuses to vex the competition as you work your way into first place. Focused on crazy arcade style racing, ToW is the type of game that will have you screaming for more!