Super Meat Boy XBLA patch near completion, includes 20 new levels
by
James Ransom-Wiley 
(14 hours ago)
Team Meat is wrapping up the
Super Meat Boy patch that addresses the
auto-save glitch and, in fact, "all known bugs" in the Xbox Live Arcade game. The free title update will also include 20 new levels and a new music track, Team Meat
tweets, and it's
expected to be completed this week and "hopefully will be up soon" (pending Microsoft's approval). Also, if for some
really stupid reason you haven't picked up the game yet -- those few bugs be damned -- the
launch sale is still "going for another week" (
from yesterday).
In other Meat Boy news: The Steam release for PC is still being targeted for the last week of November (with the Mac version coming "
after" that). Over the past few days, Team Meat has peppered the
@SuperMeatBoy feed with irresistible morsels plucked from the Steam game: 30-plus achievements, "most rejected by MS for their difficulty"?
Check! Level editor?
You betcha.
Mr. Minecraft and five additional "exclusive" characters that'll make you
change your pants?
Uh-huh -- and that's not even counting the returning
warp zone unlockables. Yeah but, how about a launch sale for this Steam version?
No doubt.
Okay, that does it! We're buying
Super Meat Boy ... again. Yes, "buy em both!"
agrees Team Meat. "2 almost identical games for 1/3rd the price of
Fallout New Vegas! So worth it .... (no seriously it's worth it)."
[Pictured: "Mr. Minecraft" unlock screen character art (PC version); source:
Twitpic]
