Developer: Iron Galaxy Studios
Publisher: Microsoft
Genre: Puzzle-action
Players: 1
Console: Xbox 360
ESRB Rating: E (Everyone)
Price: 800 Microsoft Points
In one of the latest Xbox Live Arcade games for Microsoft Kinect, the player takes control of a ballista and fires a variety of different projectiles at the Goblin hordes that have taken over the kingdom. Taking no half measures the goblins make it clear they are there to stay by erecting elaborate walls, towers and castles to hide behind. Being the newest apprentice in a medieval wrecking company, it is your job to destroy as much of the green skins’ structures as possible, guiding the projectiles with your arms as they are being hurled from your siege weapon.
It is often easy to see gaming’s successes, they are well covered in the media, receive accolades and high review scores alike and their achievements are spread throughout the gaming community. It may be more beneficial, therefore, to focus on some of the industry’s more vexing occurrences so that one may avoid such pitfalls and the subsequent loss of their pocketbook contents. Consider then my top five most disappointing developments in gaming of the past year; they are either games that failed to deliver on the promise and potential of the franchise, or video game fads that were lauded to change the industry but perhaps only did so for the worse. Let us know your thoughts on my picks as they are by no means fact, but rest merely in the domain of personal perception. 
