Video games with Christmas themes are in short supply, writes Kombo.com.
In fact the site can only come up with one, Christmas Nights Into Dreams for the Sega Saturn (see video).
The Kombo article discounts games in the Nightmare Before Christmas series as "not produced with gamers in mind."
Via: What They Play
DorthLous: Anybody tried Hiversaire? Thoughts?05/22/2013 - 5:48pm
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E. Zachary Knight: New Humble Bundle Weekly Sale. Alan Wake: https://www.humblebundle.com/weekly No Linux or Mac support. :(05/22/2013 - 1:46pm
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E. Zachary Knight: Microsoft talks about the lack of backward compatability. You're backwards. http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/192801/If_youre_backwards_compatible_youre_really_backwards.php05/22/2013 - 1:39pm
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E. Zachary Knight: That is absolutely nuts there. As bad an experience XBox Indie Games was, the problems weren't with the self published side of things. Forcing a publisher onto independent studios is not going to help.05/22/2013 - 10:43am
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MaskedPixelante: http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2013-05-22-microsoft-wont-let-indies-self-publish-on-xbox-one And the hits just keep on coming.05/22/2013 - 9:20am
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E. Zachary Knight: AE: You beat me to it. That's what I get for taking the night off.05/22/2013 - 7:40am
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E. Zachary Knight: To continue the confused and convoluted messaging system present in EA, They are making Wii U games: http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/192753/EA_is_working_on_Wii_U_games_after_all.php05/22/2013 - 7:33am
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Imautobot: I gotta admit, I seriously believed Microsoft was going to "Bring It" with this new console. But they failed, and I think that failure might be Epic.05/22/2013 - 7:27am
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Andrew Eisen: Well, the Xbox One reveal certainly had an interesting affect on the big 3's stock prices. https://twitter.com/AndrewEisen/status/33705126448977100805/21/2013 - 10:45pm
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PHX Corp: http://kotaku.com/so-the-xbox-one-reveal-screwed-up-a-lot-of-peoples-kin-509179256 So The Xbox One Reveal Screwed With Some People's Kinects05/21/2013 - 10:36pm
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Zen: On a funny side note...both of my boys have already voted NOT to get the Xbox One as soon as they found out Minecraft won't transfer lol. Some people have priorities damnit! ;)05/21/2013 - 9:27pm
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Andrew Eisen: Here's the full quote on EA making Wii U games according to Neogaf: http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=56112105/21/2013 - 8:19pm
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Andrew Eisen: Xbox One may not be always on but that doesn't mean you can use it without an internet connection. http://kotaku.com/xbox-one-does-require-internet-connection-cant-play-o-50916410905/21/2013 - 7:39pm
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Andrew Eisen: Polygon says EA's CFO says it is developing games for Wii U but doesn't provide that quote. http://www.polygon.com/2013/5/21/4351844/ea-developing-wii-u-games05/21/2013 - 7:11pm
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Andrew Eisen: Well, I was right. Both Sony and Microsoft's consoles will be out by the year's end and both will be significantly more powerful than the current gen.05/21/2013 - 5:06pm
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james_fudge: thnx05/21/2013 - 4:47pm
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Zen: Just to let ya know...you called it the "Xbox 260" in the backwards compatibility article lol.05/21/2013 - 4:26pm
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Zen: @PHX Awesome, I will hit those up after class tonight. Going back to college finally! :) My kids have had a blast telling ME to do my homework now lol.05/21/2013 - 4:19pm
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PHX Corp: @Zen I sent you a friend request on both PSN and XBL, just a heads up05/21/2013 - 4:16pm
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Zen: I noticed it with the football players when EA showed off Madden as well.05/21/2013 - 4:11pm
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Comments
Re: Christmas-themed Games in Short Supply
There's the 'Christmas Carol' episode of American McGee's Grimm
Re: Christmas-themed Games in Short Supply
Didn't Planescape Torment have signicent graphical differnces if played on chirstmas?
Re: Christmas-themed Games in Short Supply
But at least there are April Fools games. I like the one by Blizzard for their console game.
Re: Christmas-themed Games in Short Supply
Donkey Kong Country 3 had a code for Christmas themed... stuff, I don't remember. Something changed into Christmas shapes. But I do remember a jazzy Christmas-y music remix during the bonus stages.
Re: Christmas-themed Games in Short Supply
I remember the original Nights into Dreams had a Christmas mode if your Saturn's date was set to December 25. Seems silly that they released a Christmas focused edition of that game. I wonder if setting the Saturn date to Dec 25 in Christmas Nights made it extra-christmasy.
Re: Christmas-themed Games in Short Supply
Aw c'mon you guys remember Jazz Jackrabbit, right? Epic published TWO holiday installations for that game.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jazz_Jackrabbit_(video_game)
... and as I recall Ian Bogost wrote about this late year:
http://kotaku.com/336357/where-are-the-christmas-games
Re: Christmas-themed Games in Short Supply
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas_Lemmings
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Re: Christmas-themed Games in Short Supply
I think the fewer Xmas games the better.
Re: Christmas-themed Games in Short Supply
There are lots of Flash based Christmas games, but there are not many mainstream Christmas games out there AFAIK.