Rumor: Risk coming to XBLA

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matt247 on 08 July 2009

http://gamervision.com/gamer/coop/news/article/risk_coming_to_xbox_live_/?utm_campaign=coop/news/article/risk_coming_to_xbox_live_&utm_medium=SocialMedia&utm_source=n4g

Now that the Family Game Night series has thoroughly rocked the pants off of board game fans worldwide, EA and Hasbro are ready to take their domination over the genre one step further. During an event earlier today in NYC, EA PR mentioned that Risk for Xbox Live Arcade is "on the horizon." If you're not jumping for joy right now, it means you've either never played Risk or you suck at it.

If there has ever been a game that needed to be attached to a service as popular as Xbox Live it's Risk. Getting people to commit to a several hour session is an impossible task these days, but the ability to play an online version of the classic game of world domination would be wonderful. Being able to save games? It would be the last game anyone would ever need to buy.

It would likely be its own release, not attached to the Family Game Night Brand because of its size. While we're pretty sure this is coming (based on the reactions of other people "in the know" when we brought it up) it's still unconfirmed, and technically in rumor territory. Even so, it might be time to start practicing evil cackles for use online - half of the fun of playing Risk is role-playing it, after all. Anyone else unnecessarily excited about this possibility?

I wonder if they'll put the Halo Wars themed Risk on XBLA too.

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yo_john117 on 08 July 2009

Ooh i hope so! I absolutly love Risk. If they made a Halo version that would be even more awesome!

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dsister44 on 08 July 2009

That would be cool, I hope they do a good job with it

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LordMatrix on 08 July 2009

That would rock RISK is my all time favorite board game. I even have the PC RISK game and played that to death in the 90's.

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CaptDS9E on 08 July 2009

The more board games the better

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Strategyking92 on 08 July 2009

Oh wow, online play would be heaven..
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sinha on 09 July 2009

Risk is okay but it's too simple, I would have preferred Axis & Allies or Diplomacy.

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