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[UPDATE]: Beta is now live for download, however, the servers will not go up until 2 PM EST (11 AM PST).

With the much-anticipated Hybrid beta finally on its …
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While everyone knows what strategy games are, and role playing games, and massively multiplayer online games somehow the multiplayer online battle arena genre remains confusing and mysterious. Perhaps this is because, despite being a combination of strategy, RPG and MMO (aka SRPGMMO, but nobody liked that acronym) being something everyone can understand, it in no way adds up to MOBA. However, like every other genre, MOBA is branching out, growing and adding elements from other beloved genres, so before things get out of hand let us explain what MOBA is.

Okay, so what is it?

The Multiplayer Online Battle Arena genre is a micro-MMORPG experience with strategical elements surrounding it, hence the combination of the three. MOBA combines some of the key features of each genre, and bakes a peculiarly delicious cake. First and foremost, however, MOBA games are team-oriented, with one team competing against one other team. Each team has a core (or something like one) which they must protect. If their core is destroyed, they lose. Read More

Welcome to our gigantic Fez completion guide! This guide will take you from no achievements to 12, zero g to 200g and we’ll take you there… delicately. Thanks to community member MRX93 for helping us ever so slightly here and there. Without further ado… we have to explain some things.

[Editors Note: We highly recommend not using this guide until you can’t go any further on your own. Fez is about exploring and getting lost. Polytron put it best when they said “play like the internet doesn’t exist”. That being said, we know many people will become frustrated and want help. This guide is written for them.  Please use  it only as an emergency cheat-sheet.]

There are two ways to complete Fez. Complete it like you’re playing it, and to complete it for the sake of completion. We here at XBLA Fans are aware of this and have set up our guide in accordance with the different types of Fez players.

We have taken great care to separate anything and everything that would be considered a spoiler. Our policy follows that any puzzle that requires knowledge acquired outside of the area to which the puzzle belongs (barring basic knowledge and specific sections) will be posted in the SPOILER ZONE. Each area has one, and each zone is marked very clearly in text and with pictures. Each picture hints at what the spoiler covers. Once you’re done with many areas and have accrued much knowledge you’ll want to come back and check each spoiler tag to see if you can now complete that puzzle. Read More

Abilities Breakdown [springboard type=”youtube” id=”uuANt_OoID4″ player=”xbla001″ width=”640″ height=”360″ ] Special 1: Time Warp – Yuri’s Time Warp, as it is now, is strange. By default it’s a relatively short aura …
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Abilities Breakdown [springboard type=”youtube” id=”P_VdG6XSXQM” player=”xbla001″ width=”640″ height=”360″ ] Special 1: Heal bot – Voltar’s heal bot is many things, but first and foremost it’s a useful. This ability places …
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Abilities Breakdown [springboard type=”youtube” id=”wBaLNZqM4RA” player=”xbla001″ width=”640″ height=”360″ ] Special 1: Explode – Clunk is a little on the unstable side, and like most unstable robots he tends to explode. …
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Abilities Breakdown [springboard type=”youtube” id=”0QAY7rNoMfk” player=”xbla001″ width=”640″ height=”400″ ] Special 1: Clone – Leon’s clone is one of the strangest abilities in the game, and one of the most useful. …
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Abilities Breakdown [springboard type=”youtube” id=”1N0rXx-W7qo” player=”xbla001″ width=”640″ height=”400″ ] Special 1: Whirlpool – Whirlpool deals constant damage to anyone next to Froggy G for as long as Whirlwind lasts. Without …
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Abilities Breakdown [springboard type=”youtube” id=”um-ZhlEHa80″ player=”xbla001″ width=”480″ height=”400″ ] Special 1: Holo-bull – Lonestar’s holo-bull runs in a straight line (even if used in the air) and knocks back enemies. While …
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Awesomenauts is a MOBA game, first and foremost, and a 2D Brawler second. However, while we can explain strategy, tactics, and even all the way down to how to control …
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