Everyone's favorite french indie developer Load Inc has been working hard to bring customers what they want. When Mad Tracks was first announce, it was not going to include any online multiplayer component. After many complaints, Load Inc decided to add the feature.

Over in the xboxic forums, Denis Bourdain, VP Business Dev at Load Inc, has stated that "we had a pretty good first overall review from the test team at Microsoft." and when pressed about the multiplayer component, he said: " Multiplayer is done and it's great, thanks."

Also at xboxic, are 5 new screenshots of the multiplayer menu interface.

With the game being so close to complete, here's hoping that we see a 2006 release.

ILoveXBLA noticed recently that the XBLA wiki page has been updated to include yet another upcoming title; Eternity's Child. While all that's known about this title so far is that it's based off the works of Luke Bernard, and that it's scheduled for release in Spring 2007, the artwork on the official page is certainly intriguing.

For those of you who speak french there's an interview with Luke Bernard here. For those who don't, there is always babelfish.

We'll post more as soon as the info becomes available.

Godfree and Pink Sage over at Gamertag Radio have done a great job of reporting a tonne of info from Digital Life in NYC. Along with their podcast with tonnes of impressions and info, Godfree has posted 3 new videos on YouTube (it's a bit of a shaky cam, but it'll certainly do).

They are:

• Assult Heroes
  
• Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3
• Small Arms

With the slowdown of info lately, it's great to hear, and see, these games. You can check out the Gamertag Radio podcast here.

It seems like we'll be seeing more Id titles in the future for the XBLA service. According to an e-mail received by Firing Squad, id's CEO Todd Hollenshead had the following to say

Considering how DOOM topped this weeks top 10 XBLA titles, I'd say chances are pretty good. The second bit that he brings up is that of when the title got announced; What would you prefer, a specific in advance release date, or to be surprised?

Continuing along with their XBLA Wednesdays promotion, Microsoft and Namco have released the 1982 classic Dig Dug. Weighing in at just under 12MB it's the smallest XBLA title that I can remember, and those of you who like to pinch their MS points, will be happy with the 400 point price.

Thanks to Morgon and the whole MyGamercard.net team, XBLArcade.com now has a Gamer Score Leaderboard. I've taken the liberty of adding all the members of XBLArcade.com who have set up there gamertag as part of their profile. If you would like to be added or removed from this list, just let me know.

You can check out the leaderboard here.

It was known for quite some time that the live arcade service would be the latest battle ground for two of the biggest fighting franchises to duke it out.

Capcom launched first in August with Street Fighter II which came out to mixed reviews. It seems that everyone complained about something, if it wasn't the 360's D-pad, it was the lag, if it wasn't the 4:3 aspect ratio, it was people using the hundred hand slap. The good news for Capcom though, was that it sold like crazy, quickly becoming one of the fastest selling XBLA games to date.

According to Gamespot, Midway will be launching Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 this November. Will they learn from the mistakes of their foe and have spotless online multiplayer? It's certainly far to early to tell. From the screenshots I've seen, they seem to have gone with the wide screen aspect ration which should quite a few detractors (although how this will change the game dynamic is yet to be seen).

I for one bought SFII and will happily buy UMK3 and if it weren't for the fact that I regularly get my butt handed to me by people who have barely ever played the game, I'd challenge you all :)

You can check out Gamespot's story here.

Well the first of many gesture based games for XBLA will be available tomorrow as part of Microsoft's XBLA Wednesdays. The info for the release was just posted on Major Nelson's blog, and does state what everyone already knew, that it'll be free.

While it may be a disappointment for those who don't have the camera, it's good to at least see something come out.

You can check out the post here.

Kotaku has been busy pouring over the 3D realms forums and has found a few interesting quotes from their staff:

Looking through the thread, the most promising quote to me is this one:

It seems to me that if it's just up to MS to give it the OK, then they'd better get on it as I'm sure that Sony, trying to get their own system up and running would be only too happy to see this happen.

You can check the thread here, and the kotaku article here.

Achieve360Points.com has put up the list of Achievements that we can expect for both Dig Dug and TotemBall. While it is still unknown when we will actually see these games, I'm sure the Achievement Whores out there will be happy for the information.

You can check them out here: Dig Dug and TotemBall