Terraria hands-on: a tour of Minecraft XBLA's first real com

[Branhelm 9]

I'm so excited for this. My pc sucks and I've been hoping for this for a while now. When I first heard it was coming to console freaked out. Did you happen to get any info on release dates?

[Bezza89 58]

OXM is coincidence land, or magic word generator land where you say something and there's important news or features created mere hours later. I tire of sticking battlefront 3 into every conversation but one day it will happen. Anyway, any word on when this will drop?

[fracturedrich 30]

With this and state of decay,xbla is on the up and up.

[thesabby001 16]

Gamespot have gameplay showing the new features and they said it will be released in February-March video name: Terraria Breaks New Ground on Xbox Live Arcade ...

[LinkToon1 16]

I think on xbox.com it says 27th March?

[SkinnerChinner 26]

Minecraft never really grabbed my attention, but I've been watching this with a keen interest for some time.

[Alaric14 31]

Having built up a strong apathy towards anything that even attempts to do Minecraft-related activities and retro graphics, as far as I'm concerned Terraria has got its work cut out to stand up and be counted as new and interesting. Watching this space for more.

[CunningSmile 52]

Thanks for changing your avatar Alaric, that one's so much less terrifying than the clown

[Alaric14 31]

Thanks for changing your avatar Alaric, that one's so much less terrifying than the clown

It's based off an old design I had for a children's cuddly toy. Glad you approve.

[FishyGinger 50]

Thanks for changing your avatar Alaric, that one's so much less terrifying than the clown

It's based off an old design I had for a children's cuddly toy. Glad you approve.

More like an experiment in getting 2 year olds to have heart attacks.

[Sandbwoy 9]

This looks like the type of game I could get addicted to

[Crisco 14]

I thought Minecraft was one of the most boring games ever created. As far as I can tell (and have been told) the only goals the player has is "I dunno... Build stuff." Great for creative people who like to mess about with things but I prefer games where there's a point in playing. Plus it seems like the graphics are purposefully bad. I've got no problem with retro, just with games that are less than they could be. [/Rant]

However this looks like it could be fun. Looks like it was made to be fun (rather than a tutorial on building and architecture). I'll play the demo and hope that it's more like a new, original idea and less like Minecraft.