On the game's dedicated forum, one of the members who appears to have some inside knowledge (and has made plenty of accurate guesses before) speculated that the new, mystery publisher might be none other than Microsoft Game Studios themselves.

If so, it's entirely possible that they are just sitting on the release, waiting for an okay from the courts, and will make it live as soon as the ruling goes through. This would also mean it would be much easier to stay current with future releases.

FarSight clearly has made some missteps (and the lack of a PC version is laughable, though publishing with M$ should help with this too) and I, too, am frustrated, but I think there's a good chance that in the next month or so they'll be caught up on all platforms.

Really good news on the PC front. Bobby made it sound as if having it on Steam is pretty much a done deal. Fingers crossed we'll see it soon.

The XBOX nightmare *may* soon be over. From their most recent newsletter:

As many of our fans have noticed, the Xbox 360 version of the Pinball Arcade is no longer available in the Live Arcade store. Our publisher for the 360 version recently emerged from bankruptcy and we'd been told that we would be allowed to immediately submit all of the unreleased Table Packs to our long-suffering 360 users. Unfortunately, Microsoft has elected to revoke the publisher's license agreement (which is why the Pinball Arcade is temporarily not available in the store). However, we have some very good news to share- Microsoft has just announced that indie developers (like FarSight) can now self-publish on Xbox Live Arcade instead of being required to find publishers for their games. This means we can bring the Pinball Arcade back to the 360 ourselves, and also opens the door to an Xbox One version of the Pinball Arcade in the future! Microsoft has stated that the new program will open in August- we will do everything we can to get the Pinball Arcade (and all of the new Table Packs) back on the Xbox 360 as quickly as possible.

I'll save the celebration for when I see it back in the store, but fingers crossed.

T2 will be the only table in "pack" 17, for what it's worth. That's the strategy they've taken with the previous Kickstarter tables.

Been part of Beta testing on Android. It's a pretty good recreation, but there are a lot of collision problems that I've seen (balls going through the skull, for instance.) Really hoping they get that cleaned up before release or people will be pissed.

Truth be told, it's not my favorite table. Really fun IRL, but everything's so easy on TPA compared to real tables, and T2 isn't super deep, so it get old pretty quickly IMHO.

Good chance Teed Off will be a part of the next pack after T2. There's an image of the flyer in the pictures for the Season 2 subscription on PS3.

There was a time when Farsight said that Sorcerer was one of the few games from Pinball Hall of Fame that they wouldn't be redoing for Pinball Arcade. I hope they've changed their mind, it's one of my favorites from that collection.

Regardless: They've yet to do a pack that had two previous PHOF tables, so it's probably going to be Teed Off and something new. Eight Ball Deluxe, maybe? High Speed?

The PC Beta also contains references to Ace High and Victory (both of which were in PHOF), so we'll likely see them coming soon too.

Derp. Sorcerer. Post edited.

Sorcerer, Jive Time and Strikes N' Spares were the ones they were going to leave behind, IIRC.

Big Shot is one of my most played tables. It's a great table in real life, and Farsight nailed the execution.

With time on my hands, the DMD tables definitely get a lot more attention, but if I need a quick fix on the road, I often fire up Big Shot.

Unfortunately, while self-publishing has been announced for XBone, there hasn't been any word of it on the 360. It's a shame Farsight announced that that would be an option. Maybe it still will be, maybe they're screwed, but for now all we can do is keep waiting.

FWIW, I'm in the PC Beta and it's looking very good. I've just been playing on my relatively low-power HTPC, and I've had no performance issues. I'm happy with this arrangement, but I know it won't be an option for all 360 owners.

Full cabinet support is probably a ways off. Hoping a locked portrait view comes before too long (I have a VP cabinet.)

Yep, manually rotate your display, then run the config utility and you'll see the rotated resolution as an option (For me, 1920x1080 was landscape, so after I rotated, I saw 1080x1920)

Beautiful graphics and no flipper lag from the first time I booted it up. I'm just using a two-monitor mini cab (no DMD) so if we get Active Backglasses and user-defined DMD position, I'll have all I need (though will keep my fingers crossed for real DMD support, LEDwiz support, plungers, etc etc, for all my tricked out cab friends.)

I think it really depends on your setup. No flipper cutoff problems in the tables I've tried, and the graphics run circles around even the nicest new 9.1.6 VP tables.

Make sure post-processing and anti-aliasing are turned on: Both are off by default.

As a first release, really smooth. Update coming soon intended to address some of the bigger issues:

Because the changelist for 1.19.6 is a little small, here's a peek at changes that will be released with the next stable build:
- Fix for portrait cameras cutting off the flippers.
- Rumble On/Off in table settings.
- Dual-stage flippers On/Off in table settings.
- Reverse nudge On/Off in table settings.
- Event cameras On/Off in table settings.
- Sound Options menu to adjust levels for sound effects, table music, and menu music in the Options menu.
- Fixes for various application focus issues, such as input being processed when dismissing the Steam overlay or when the application doesn't have focus.
- Camera flyby properly restores after exiting table exploration.
- Fix for controllers on high-score initials entry in portrait.

Happy to be a guinea pig for this, thank you! I was toying with the idea of just putting all the backglass images in a folder and slideshowing to the appropriate one. Yours sounds slightly more elegant.