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Space Giraffe and Street Trace: NYC will be tomorrow's Live Arcade offerings at 400 (GBP 3.40 / EUR 4.80) and 800 (GBP 6.80 / EUR 9.60) points respectively.

Confirmation spilled from Microsoft bigwig Larry Hryb, who oversees the online service and regularly updates his "Major Nelson" blog with all the latest news regarding it.

Space Giraffe is the highly awaited wacky arcade shooter from industry veteran Jeff Minter and development team Llamasoft. You'll control a spaceship-type vehicle fans dubbed a giraffe, and try to master 100 levels of psychedelic mayhem so you can boast the highest score around.

It's similar to Minter's old gem Tempest 2000, but he insists this is much more than a simple update.

Street Trace: NYC, on the other hand, is a street racing game based on hover-boards - as made famous by Marty McFly and Biff. The aim is to win using any dirty tricks you can think of. Your weapons and board are upgradeable, and you'll be able to race across numerous single-player modes before challenging three of your friends in split-screen, or up to seven others on Live.

We'll be bringing you our thoughts on both as soon as humanly possible.

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- Release date 21/08/2007
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Dreddnaught #1 5 years ago

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How can 400 points be a typo ?

Minter must have some fat fingers...
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Xnoybis Verified Senior Software Engineer, Holition #2 5 years ago

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Looking forward to space giraffe despite the bad reviews. I still fire up my Jaguar every xmas for a bit of tempest 2000.
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Flub #3 5 years ago

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It's not a typo. It is 400 points.
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chub #4 5 years ago

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800 was the typo.
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DaM #5 5 years ago

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Lets hope so, I have 400 points left, saved for it!
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Flub #6 5 years ago

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Chub. The article here says

"It's similar to Minter's old gem Tempest 2000, but he insists this is much more than a simple update. We'd previously heard it would sell for 400 points, but Hryb insists this was a typo on Minter's blog"

Meaning Eurogamer thinks it's going to be 800 points.
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aldo_14 #7 5 years ago

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Haven't Minter and MS been fighting / bickering over whether it's to be sold for 400 or 800 (respectively) points?
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GazLiddon #8 5 years ago

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No bickering or fighting, just a minor slip up when SG was announced. It's definitely 400 points. We had this from our man at Microsoft yesterday

"Yes, that was a mistake. I have notified all parties that the game is meant to be 400 pts. All of the XBLA billing offers etc. are already in place at the correct price point.

Mark"

Same price as a pint of Stella in Iceland and half the cost of Ancipital on the C64

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Veldaban #9 5 years ago

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Well, according to the MN entry:

"Edit: According to Jeff's blog...Space Giraffe is 400 points and corrected a typo."

Sounds to me like MN doesn't know one way or the other, he's just reporting what he reads. And the "typo correction" is completely irrelevant to the discussion, he just mentioned he corrected some random typo, nothing to do with the price.
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Dreddnaught #10 5 years ago

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Enough of this Space Giraffe-ism, nobody's commented on HOVERBOARDS !!!!!
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bluebird #11 5 years ago

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Really can't wait! Tempest 2000 is in my top 3 of best games ever...
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speedjack #12 5 years ago

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Space Giraffe and Bioshock.... IN THE SAME WEEK ?!!!

/faints
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Eighthours #13 5 years ago

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And SWOS next week. Good times, fellas.
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Slim #14 5 years ago

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Best week ever? Eat Electric Death!
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Dr_Dave #15 5 years ago

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Eat Electric Death!
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Shanucore #16 5 years ago

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I want to have a go at Space Giraffe, but it'll have to wait a while. BIOSHOCK. NOW.
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quantumsheep #17 5 years ago

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\o/

Finally! =D
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lennon #18 5 years ago

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"And SWOS next week. Good times, fellas." - Is that confirmed Eighthours? Last I heard someone involved with the game had said it was being put back till September.
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Bertie Verified Senior Staff Writer, Eurogamer.net #19 5 years ago

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Oh alright, I give in - it's 400 points!

Will be in stocks until Thursday morning. Request rotten tomatoes instead of frozen ones.
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Dreddnaught #20 5 years ago

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"3) Street Trace is the utterly dreadful"

But it's HOVERBOARDS !!!!
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Salvia #21 5 years ago

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"2) there has only been ONE bad review... contrasts with several stupidly-positive reviews, like this one -"

But that review sounds like fanboy rantings...
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