Trials HD Wins Xbox Live Arcade Community-Voted Awards

The Xbox Live community has voted RedLynx and Microsoft's physics-based stunt biking game Trials HD as "Best Overall Arcade Game" of 2009. The game beat out popular titles such as Battlefield 1943 and Shadow Complex, Microsoft said Tuesday. Helsinki, Finland-based RedLynx released Trials HD in August last year, and in a little over a month, the game sold 300,000 units. Trials HD also won the XBLA innovation award. The series originally appeared on PC. Microsoft said that players cast over 1 million votes to help determine XBLA's best games in the third annual Xbox Live Arcade Awards, which extend beyond the overall "best game," as voted by the XBL audience: -Best Overall Arcade Game: Trials HD (Microsoft) -Best Original Game: Splosion Man (Xbox LIVE Arcade) -Best Family Game: Hasbro Family Game Night (Electronic Arts) -Best Co-Operative Multiplayer: Battlefield 1943 (Electronic Arts) -Best Competitive Multiplayer: Battlefield 1943 (Electronic Arts) -Best Solo Game: Shadow Complex (Chair Entertainment/Microsoft Corp.) -Best Innovation: Trials HD (Microsoft) -Best Graphics: Shadow Complex (Chair Entertainment/Microsoft Corp.) -Best Classic/Remake: Banjo-Tooie (Microsoft Game Studios) Microsoft also reminded users that today the company released a system update that will enable Xbox 360s to support USB flash drives for storage. The company additionally revealed a number of full downloadable retail-derived games for Xbox Live's Games On Demand service in April, including Halo 3 and Tomb Raider: Legend, along with European releases of Fallout 3, Devil May Cry 4 and Saints Row.