In an interesting turn of events, an unlicensed port of XBLA title Charlie Murder from Ska Games has turned up on a Russian Forum. Turns out, it’s coming from the same person who just last year ported the awesome title The Dishwasher: Vampire Smile. Hacker Barabus claims it won't be released to the public this time.
Hardcore Gamer: They brought multiple games to XBLA, some of which went on to become cult classics. These were Charlie Murder and The Dishwasher: Vampire Smile. Each title features hand-drawn, punk-inspired visuals and are tremendously gory.
Ethan Lee from the flibitijibibo Patreon page writes:
"Today I’m (in)formally announcing that I’ve been working on Steam versions of Ska Studios’ Charlie Murder and The Dishwasher: Vampire Smile! The Steam versions will be available for Linux, macOS and Windows on day 1, and will include all the features of the Xbox 360 versions including online multiplayer, achievements and leaderboards. They will also be the debut titles for FNA.Steamworks, a new reimplementation of the XNA4 Xbox Live features for FNA (which all versions of the game will be using)."
Yeah, the gameplay evolution is quite evident. Still, I loved Ska Studios' earlier work, so I'm really happy that they are releasing both CM and The Dishwasher: VS on PC.
Console Monster writes: "Today I had the opportunity to sit down with James Silva and Michelle Juett Silva, the folks behind the Dishwasher and Charlie Murder games. They took a bit of time to answer some questions about their latest title 'Salt and Sanctuary' and give some insight on the development process over at SkaStudios."
"Happy as an elephant" - what a great line. Interesting story this.
Of course he's going to release it to the public. His ass will be sued by Ska.
I love Ska Studios. They're an amazing developer. In fact, Dishwasher: Vampire Smile is one of my favorite 360 games, even better than a lot of Microsoft's first-party stuff.
That's awesome.
People should be able to do what ever they want with the games they buy for personal use.
I'm currently playing GTA3 on my PC with imported xbox assets.
The xbox version had a greatly increased lighting, effects, polygon count and textures over the playstation and PC versions.
Modders for the win!