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Earlier this month, 505 Games released a brief “Hit List” video for it’s new Naughty Bear title, Panic in Paradise, depicting just a half-minute of the titular fluffy psychopath marking off the first entry in a 10-entry kill list. The second, viewable above, was released last week.

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As we reported early last week, Double Fine Productions unveiled its sequel to Double Fine Happy Action Theater via a nearly 40-minute livestream over at GiantBomb on Friday. Like the game that came before it, the sequel will focus on Kinect-based mini-games that put the player(s) in wild and crazy situations (say, for example, turning yourself into a fire-breathing dragon and demolishing a city).
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Sega has announced it will bring nine titles to the Penny Arcade Expo (better known as PAX Prime) later this month – one of which has yet to be announced. All nine titles will be playable at the festival. Hit the jump for the games we know will be there, some of which include forthcoming XBLA titles.

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Development studio Double Fine will unveil a sequel to its February Kinect title Happy Action Theater on Friday, if a tweet from Giantbomb co-founder Ryan Davis Monday afternoon is to be believed. Davis had this to say:

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Fret not, XBLAers – Avatar items listed for sale by actual currency this week don’t indicate a move away from MSP, according to a statement put out by Microsoft today. The appearance of dollars and cents (or Euros or yen or what have you) in the Marketplace was a simple glitch, the company says.

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It’s no secret that 505 Games is putting together a new Naughty Bear title, Panic in Paradise, for later this year, but now the developer has given fans of cuddly carnage a better idea of when they can expect to step back into the shoes of the cutest psychopath in video games – it will hit XBLA and PSN in October.

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If one were to wonder what SouthEnd’s follow-up to 2010’s cute-as-a-button ilomilo would be, their  first guess might not have been a colorful side-scrolling beat-em-up in the same vein as Golden Axe or Castle Crashers. That’s just what the developer is serving up, however, as it’s just announced it will release Sacred Citadel on XBLA, PSN and PC in 2013.

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Since it first hit XBLA in 2008, Castle Crashers has consistently been one of the better-selling titles on the service and arguably resurrected the side-scrolling brawler for a new generation single-handedly. The game’s also held a steady place on the XBLA leaderboards, and currently approaches the three million milestone.

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The long-awaited third chapter Penny Arcade’s XBLA RPG series, On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness, finally hit XBLIG to generally positive reviews June 29. Now, just a little over a month out from the game’s release, news has begun to trickle out about the game’s first DLC pack.
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In the real world, Playdead’s Limbo first appeared on XBLA to near-universal acclaim in July of 2010, and released on other platforms a year later. Somewhere, however, in some alternate universe, it was PlayStation 3 owners who got the yearlong jump on everyone else.

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