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Enjoying 17-BIT’s samurai-themed real-time strategy title Skulls of the Shogun? If you’ve picked it up, odds are you are – the game currently sits on a kushy 80 rating on Metacritic, with many reviews lauding the game’s handsome cel-shaded graphics and deep strategy elements (we quite liked it as well). Now, fans can enjoy a bit of Shogun on the go – the game’s soundtrack is available digitally.
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After a slight delay, Darkstalkers Resurrection is coming to XBLA on March 13, according to a Polygon report. The game presents two entries in Capcom’s cartoony horror fighter series, Night Warriors: Darkstalkers’ Revenge and Darkstalkers 3, in one hi-def package.
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Publisher 505 Games aims to release its long-awaited Terraria on consoles next month, according to Joystiq.
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Zen Studios’ tower-defense title CastleStorm is set to release on XBLA in April after a year of development, Joystiq reports. The game is a 2-D physics-based defense puzzler (think Angry Birds) with tower defense elements – Knights defend castles from raiding Vikings, who attack with ranged weapons. Online multiplayer and castle editing will also be available.
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The world is full of creatures big and small – but not all of them are nice or helpful. Luckily, Kalypso Digital Media and Enigma Software have provided this …
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Some may have noticed a few new entries pop up in the achievement list for Ubisoft’s beat-em-up Scott Pilgrim vs. The World: The Game, which may point to the impending release of long-awaited and much-anticipated DLC for the popular title. Four achievements worth a total of 50 gamerscore have been added to the game and appear to be from the “Online Multiplayer and Wallace” pack.

A screenshot of the achievements, courtesy of @lifelower, outlines what you’ll need to do to nab that gamerscore:

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Looking forward to 505 Games‘ upcoming world-building platformer Terraria? If so, you’re in luck, as GameSpot recently unveiled over 17 minutes of …
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Call it a case of the student surpassing the teacher – Minecraft: Xbox 360 Edition sold more copies in 2012 than its older, beefier PC counterpart, developer Mojang announced last week. According to a post over at EuroGamer, the XBLA edition of the world-building adventure goliath sold 5,002,370 copies last year, compared to 4,177,843 sold on PC; not bad, considering the game’s been out for less than a year on XBLA.
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That Telltale Games plans to follow-up the wildly successful Walking Dead adventure game with a second season is no secret. What form that will take has been a bit less clear; primary among the questions still to be answered is whether it will be a direct sequel to the first season or if it would follow an entirely new cast of characters.
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At this point, it’s safe to call Minecraft a legitimate phenomenon – especially the Xbox 360 Edition, where it’s one of the best-selling games in XBLA history and spent …
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