Gameloft treads on XBL Indie games with Tank Battles

by Richard Mitchell 

Xbox Live Arcade was once thought to be a bastion of independent game development, destined to help independent studios get there projects to the game-playing masses. While that's still true to a certain extent -- Ska Studios and Polytron say hi -- there's no denying that an increasingly large number of XBLA games are being created by major publishers and development houses. And now it seems as if Xbox Live Indie Games -- quite literally a bastion of independent game development -- might suffer the same fate.

Unstoppable mobile game publisher Gameloft (a subsidiary of Ubisoft) is officially entering the Indie Games space with Tank Battles. As the title implies, the game features tanks doing battle from a third-person perspective. If the title sounds familiar, it's because the game was already released on PSN last year as Battle Tanks. The game offers up to 4-players (locally or online) to duke it out and, truth be told, it looks pretty fun. Check out a trailer after the break.

[Via GamerBytes]

So on PSN it was called Battle Tanks and on XBLA its Tank Battles even though they're exactly the same game? ... why's that? O_o

So when people do a search the Xbox Version pops up instead of the PS3 version? who knows.

Here's the PSN version

Bring the REAL battle tanx

why would they want that? they're both made by Gameloft.

about this game i have played it a couple times with a friend its a great simple fun game

OH FUCK YEAH!!

Now THAT game deserves an HD remake.

or this one

I never played that one. Damn the no internet back then!

that looked like a lot of fun. How much will it be?