Texas Hold'em Poker to be released before August 6th?
In the August issue of OXM, their calendar of events for XBox Live lists August 6th as "Texas Hold 'em Poker night on XBLA". That night happens to be a Sunday, and new content is never added to the XBox Live Marketplace on the weekend, so the game would need to be released before that weekend. Although we won't know for sure until then, this scenario seems reasonable. On last week's Major Nelson podcast, it was hinted that the game was coming along nicely but was caught up in legal issues with the sponsor. Hopefully, they will get that all cleared up so we can be playing free poker on XBox 360 in less than 6 weeks.
It might be worth mentioning that OXM previously gave a release date for Marketplace content (PDZ Map Pack 1) well in advance and they got that one right.
UPDATE: Apparently, OXM's calendar of events isn't always a reliable source for XBLA release dates. We would like to thank our readers for this tip.
Comments
BS
in the last OXM calender SF2 was announced for June 10th and UMK3 for June 15th
dont believe their lies :-(
trent82
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i never saw anyone mention those other dates before, so i won't try to explain them. but to be fair, street fighter has been delayed for technical reasons while poker has been on hold for entirely different issues. if texas hold'em is technically complete, they could have already put it through certification while waiting for the business related details to be worked out. i wouldn't be surprised if this turns out to be true, and i'm usually a pessimist when it comes to xbla release dates.
heres a picture of the calendar
http://static.flickr.com/71/163580899_fe702e4ad8_o.png