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@lifelower tipped us earlier that we’ll hear more information on a new XBLA title called Ghetto Golf. Details on the release are pretty scarce but on the developer’s website, …
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What we are playing is a weekly column that appears each weekend. Various staff members let the world know what games had them hooked the past week and which ones …
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While Brian Provinciano is currently promoting Retro City Rampage at MineCon in Las Vegas, a new trailer appeared on their Twitter that should satisfy your explosive XBLA side. …
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Over the summer, we reported that a new studio Blossom Minds would be working on its first XBLA title and we’ve got the first screenshot of our hero on …
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As today marked the official release of Minecraft for PC, a brand new trailer premiered today for its upcoming trip to XBLA. In the trailer, we see Notch and the rest of Mojang coding away when the XBLA version arrives at their offices. After they excitedly run to the couch, the entire office ride through mines, kill animals for food and watch out for creepers. The game so far looks exactly like what we’ve come to love about Minecraft right down to the great blocky graphics and menu scheme. Keep an eye and a pickaxe ready for this one when it hits in 2012. Catch some new screenshots after the break!
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It’s been a long time coming but we finally have more details on the update/release of Iron Brigade formerly known as Trenched. Eurogamer broke the news that we would …
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Too many new releases. . .
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Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet: Shadow Hunters was developed by FuelCell and Gagne Int’l and published by Microsoft. It was released October 12, 2011 for 400 MSP. A copy was provided for review purposes.

We loved Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet when it came out in August this year. Of the few criticisms we had, one the staff all agreed on was that it was over too quickly. The game had a really great self-contained campaign with a fun multiplayer mode but it could have had more. But now we have more in the form of DLC entitled Shadow Hunters.

The DLC continues right when the story left off as you leave the Shadow Planet and find out more planets have been infected with the Shadow monsters. Now it’s up to you and three co-op buddies to solve the mystery and destroy the rest of the creatures. Does it combine the best elements of campaign and multiplayer or does it feel forced?

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War of the Worlds was developed by Other Ocean Interactive and published by Paramount Digital Entertainment. It was released October 12, 2011 for 800 MSP. A copy was provided for review purposes.

You don’t see many book adaptations on Xbox Live Arcade if any at all. But Other Ocean Interactive decided to make a platformer based off one of the most famous novels and radio broadcasts ever with The War of the Worlds. Based off of the H.G. Wells book, you play as Arthur who’s coming home in early 50’s London when the alien apocalypse happens. As you rush through the chaotic streets of pedestrians running for their lives, you must race to find your wife and brother to make sure they’re safe.

The game is a rotoscope animated platformer similar to games like Out of This World or the original Prince of Persia. You must carefully run and jump off platformers at the right time in order to achieve the jump. Coincidentally enough, making precise jumps and movements is actually harder than the aliens themselves and sets us up for what we’ll have to deal with for the entire game.

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From our title screen reveal to the first screenshot, all eyes are on the XBLA trip for Alan Wake rumored to be called Alan Wake’s Night Springs. Spike has …
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