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.

The people who run the Independent Games Festival have announced the entries for the 9th iteration of the show. While many of the games are completely unknown to the general public, this is not due to the quality of the game but rather due to the lack of marketing budget. So next time you get sick of Tony Hawk 52 or Madden 78 check out this list for some great games.

Another thing to note that three upcoming XBLA games are on the list; Load Inc's Mad Tracks, Naked Sky's RoboBlitz, and The Behemoth's Crashers.

You can check out the list here.

Load Inc., the Paris based company behind the highly anticipated Mad Tracks, has announced via press release that they will be attending CGDC in Leipzig. At the European developers conference, they will be representing Mad Tracks, as well as a previously unannounced racing title also bound for XBLA titled ToW.

Also announced were the expected release time frames for both titles. Mad Tracks is hoping for Q1 2007, while ToW is slated for Q3 2007. With no current driving genre games currently released, it's good to see that Load Inc. is looking to rectify that.

After months of playing coy, Denis Bourdain revealed recently to Xboxic, that Mad Tracks will indeed have online multiplayer.

When Load Inc. first announced Mad Tracks was coming to XBLA, many people were extremely happy that Microsoft had finally found something to fill the Revolt/Micro Machines hole in their lineup. Later, it was revealed, that due to time and money concerns, the game would be released without an online multiplayer component. Today's news comes after a fair bit of backlash that Load Inc. received about it's lacking.

As with almost everything it seems these days, with the good comes some bad. In order to code the PC's net code from the ground up, the game has been pushed back "several months" from it's estimated mid-September date.

Thanks Hexx and Audie for the heads up.

Curry, over at Xboxic.com has posted a relatively in depth preview of Mad Tracks from his trip to the Load Inc offices. The more I find out about this game the more I think it's the perfect game for a Friday night with a case of beer and a bunch of friends.

Check it out here.

Denis Bourdain, VP Business Dev of Load Inc., has "gone public". Denis has been to several different Xbox 360 forums/message boards, inviting questions, comments, concerns, and etc.. for the upcoming Xbox Live Arcade game "Mad Tracks". Some interesting information regarding the game has come of this, including:

- The game will not be play-able over Xbox Live, but will support 4 - Player Split Screen.
- There will be a handful of mini - games, including Pool and Foos Ball.
- 12 different 'power - ups', similar to Re-Volt.
- 48 different Leaderboards
- 2 Game Modes: Arcade & Championship

.. and much more.

He's been shedding some light onto the revised release date, an estimated price, and throwing out an achievement or two to tease the achievement junkies.

You can also check out our interview with him here.
Head on over to the Xboxic Forums, to 'chit-chat' with Denis.

TeamXBox has posted a new slew of screenshots of Mad Tracks which you can check out here. While they reiterate that there is going to be 15 Levels (5 races, 10 mini-games), they leave out the fact that there will be the two DLC packs also with 15 Levels each that Denis Bourdain mentioned in our interview with him.

Denis Bourdain, VP Business Dev at Load Inc, see picture bellow, took some time out of his busy schedule to answer a few quesitons about the upcoming Mad Tracks. He answers questions about pricing, DLC, and a release time frame (just an estimate of course, this is XBLA after all :) )

Read it all after the break

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

Add another one to the list of games that have been quietly anounced for release in Spring 2006. This time it’s a bunch of ex-UBI employees (the company name is load inc.) and the game is Mad Tracks.
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