Viral gaming is here...

Small Arms was released last week over Xbox Live Arcade and rapidly jumped up into the top 5 of the most downloaded arcade games. Its a great game in the same vein as Super Smash Brothers Melee only more violent and with guns. One thing it does which is fairly new is it introduces a virulant achievement. The day the game launched several of the developers went online to play the game. Everytime they played with someone they "infected" those people with an achievement called "Six Degrees of Small Arms". Then those people would infect the next group they played with and so on.

Its a cool concept and it must have spread like wildfire because I got infected the first game I played online. No gamer points for it though. Check out Small Arms, its the second best $10 you will spend on the Arcade this year.

http://www.xbox.com/en-US/games/s/smallarmslivearcadexbox360/default.htm