Costing 80 Microsoft Points ($1), Zombies and Pterodactyls 20XX is a multiplayer shooter with jetpacks and "blades, guns, grenades and other instruments of mayhem, all in a world where rainbows are deadly weapons and Africanized bees are used as ammunition."

And the zombies and pterodactyls? Apparently, ZP2KX is "outrageous war propaganda" created at the behest of the Pterodactyl King to encourage players to sign up for the peterodactyls' "real-world human versus zombie 'death matches.'" It's obvious, really.

The Indie Games Winter Uprising is a promotion cooked up by a group of indie developers who say they're "fighting back against mediocrity and lameness" on XBLIG "in the best way we know how--by releasing amazing games!" Fourteen games by veterans and newcomers alike are due to arrive in the first week of December.