Giana Sisters: Dream Runners, Velocity 2X and the Kinect Bundle which includes Squid Hero and Boom Ball are all out now on Xbox One. The Kinect Bundle costs $14.99 and includes two games totaling to 1.5 GB roughly. Velocity 2X is costs $19.99 and comes in at 2.2 GB. Lastly, Giana Sisters: Dream Runners costs only $9.99 and also comes in at around 2.17 GB. All of these titles are a blast to play so be sure to check them out.
Kinect Bundle: Squid Hero and Boom Ball
Get up and play! This double fun bundle for all ages contains two active Kinect games from Virtual Air Guitar Company that are easy to learn but challenge your accuracy and dexterity with active, responsive and satisfying gameplay. Squid Hero takes 1 or 2 players on a cheery and colorful arcade adventure, where you’ll smash ice cubes to save the world from a new ice age. In Boom Ball, you get to hit balls, smash bricks and solve puzzles across 55 inventive levels.
Velocity 2X
Become a certified badass. Abducted by a race of hostile aliens, Lieutenant Kai Tana must use her quick reflexes and the teleporting power of the Quarp Jet to free her fellow prisoners and find a way home. Swapping back and forth between top-down vertical shoot ’em up and side-scrolling action platformer, Velocity 2X blends two unique styles of fast-paced, frenetic gameplay into one incredible experience.
Core Features:
• High-energy Adventure: Players must pilot the Quarp Jet through dangerous territory, using a variety of weapons and teleporting technology. Then dock your ship and advance through side-scrolling missions to defeat the evil alien race from within!
• Speed Runner’s Dream: Use Speed Boost pads, on-foot teledash and cybernetic sprints to make it through the game faster!
• Over 50 Dynamic Levels: Using the Quarp technology, navigate Lieutenant Tana through hours of gameplay that increases in speed and difficulty as you advance.
• High Re-playability: Compete against your friends to see who can have the top score! Ranked leaderboards let speed runners compete for fastest time, highest completion percentage and highest overall score!
• Neon Future: Take players to the stars with colorfully bold visual effects and a pulsing electronic soundtrack co-created by award-winning game composer Joris de Man.
New Features:
• Daily Challenge: Come back daily for exclusive new maps, complete with their own leaderboards!
• Dual Core and Critical Urgency Packs Included: 16 additional mind-melting levels to master advanced techniques!
Giana Sisters: Dream Runners
Run and jump, dash and smash, daze and teleport, morph and cannon…oh you get the idea. Mess with your opponents! The game pits up to four players or computer-controlled opponents against each other in local and online competition, speed-running for the finish in an effort to push each other off the screen with the help of boosters and power-ups. Switch the level layout on the fly as you rush through dreamgates. Collect gems to fill your speed booster and use your power-ups to knock out the other players and claim victory!
Key Features:
• Competitive pick-up-and-play platforming game
• Supports a party of up to four simultaneous local and online players
• Be faster than your opponents, push them off the screen and win!
• Use your arsenal of boosters and power-ups to blast your opponents off track
• Four unlockable bonus characters
• Nine levels to race
• Dual soundtrack by Chris Huelsbeck along with Swedish heavy metal legend Machinae Supremacy
Asher is a games journalist, former News Writer (Gaming) at Windows Central. They contributed 1110 articles to ICXM between 2015–2017, focused on opinion pieces, game reviews, Windows and PC, and Xbox news: wrote over 1,100 ICXM pieces on Xbox news, hardware reviews, and platform commentary before joining Future plc’s Windows Central in 2017.