{"id":1012,"date":"2011-01-06T17:08:35","date_gmt":"2011-01-07T00:08:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/?p=1012"},"modified":"2011-01-06T17:08:35","modified_gmt":"2011-01-07T00:08:35","slug":"xbox-live-arcade-games-for-the-holidays-recap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/xbox-live-arcade-games-for-the-holidays-recap\/","title":{"rendered":"Xbox Live Arcade Games For The Holidays Recap"},"content":{"rendered":"

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For the last three weeks Microsoft has been running their “Games for the Holidays” on Xbox Live Arcade. The three games they released during this time were A World of Keflings<\/strong><\/a>, Raskulls<\/strong><\/a> and ilomilo<\/strong><\/a>. I really enjoyed all three and have reviews up for them on XBLA Ratings<\/a>.\u00a0 Just hit the links if you are interested. The thing that I really enjoyed is how they tied all three games together even though they are all from different developers.\u00a0 In Keflings you can build a house for ilo and milo as well one for the Raskulls.\u00a0 Once you build it they come and live in your Kefling’s world.\u00a0 You can kick them around like and of the other Keflings. Then, in Raskulls you get Doug the Kefling and ilo as playable characters for multiplayer.\u00a0 Finally in ilomilo you get Kefling and Raskulls costumes to wear.\u00a0 None of these play a huge role in the games but it is really cool how they tie in together. Sure games in the past have costumes or characters you can unlock that are from other games, but this is the first one I know of that actually checks to see if you have achievements in it first.\u00a0 Hopefully more developers can start doing little stuff like this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For the last three weeks Microsoft has been running their “Games for the Holidays” on Xbox Live Arcade. The three games they released during this time were A World of Keflings, Raskulls and ilomilo. I really enjoyed all three and have reviews up for them on XBLA Ratings.\u00a0 Just hit the links if you are […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[29],"tags":[192,193,191,5,30],"class_list":["post-1012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-xbox-live-arcade","tag-a-world-of-keflings","tag-ilomilo","tag-raskulls","tag-video-game","tag-xbla"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1012\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}