Don’t miss Root Beer Tapper, it’s out today you know. Here’s some bits and pieces while we get our house in order.

• Age rating organization ESRB have approved Super Ghouls n’ Ghosts for Xbox 360, which most likely means that the 16-bit Capcom classic is due for Live Arcade pretty soon.
• Is Jetpac: Refueled the upcoming Rare release for Live Arcade? Xbox 360 Fanboy seems to think so.
• Worms developer on downloadable content and more, over at Gamertag Radio, or transcript at Xboxic.
• The digest for games magazine PTD 302 is available for download.

There might be some craziness here at Live Arcade Review the coming days. We’re gonna update Wordpress and try some stuff out. Once we’ve got that out of the way, we’ll get back to our regular pace of news, and a hightened one for reviewing the Live Arcade games. Thanks for bearing with us.

If the Official Xbox Magazine’s March issue is to be believed, the upcoming Worms game for Live Arcade have been chopped down, possibly to leave room for downloadable content. While the concept isn’t new, it sure is a bit worrying. I came across this reading about the “evolving” demo disc that is said to come with Official Xbox Magazine in 2007, so it’s a sidenote really.

Also worth noting - some new Xbox Live Arcade reviews in the March 2007 issue were for unreleased XBLA games, including Worms getting 7.5, with the slightly worrying comment: “Was it purposely truncated to allow downloadable content?”, since it’s missing stalwart weapons including the Holy Hand Grenade, Root Beer Tapper getting 6.0 with “good time-killer”, and the Big Huge Games-developed Catan being “A truly unique Live experience”, and getting 8.0.

Fingers crossed… If your curious about the new demo disc, by all means check out the GameSetWatch post, although there aren’t that many hard facts yet.

Well, we kinda guessed that…

Firstly, Microsoft included Worms in an announcement of ten new XBLA titles, along with 3 shots - this has been greeted with a mixture of interest and relief; but people still want to know WHEN the title will be out - and it’s on the horizon now.

That’s from Team17 studio director Martyn Brown. Let’s hope the horizon isn’t so far away, shall we?

It would seem that we’re not getting a Live Arcade release today, which is sad of course. Actually, it kind of sucks, to me Microsofts is neglecting their Live Arcade game commitment. There are so many indie developers out there with great ideas, so it shouldn’t be hard to make sure that there’s new quality content each week. Why not just let up some smaller games for 400 points or something?

Anyway, I think Microsoft sense that they need to provide value each Wednesday, so they’re trying to get out of this fix by listing ten upcoming Live Arcade games in a press release.

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Scoopmeister DaKing240 claims to have received word that Worms won’t be released for at least a month. Bummer. He also lets us know that there are two new additions to PartnerNet - Car and Crashes - but no real info.