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E3 may be over but there’s still plenty to talk about and this week we even have people who were there, which certainly helps. If you missed last weeks episode (it was a bit late going up) be sure to check it out here.

John Laster is back in the hosting chair this week and since he was lucky enough to see pretty much every XBLA game being shown at E3 he tells us about all of um. There’s really not much else to say about this weeks podcast, so get listening!

If you want to know even more about what John, Stephen and Kaitlyn saw be sure to keep an eye on our previews section. Be sure to subscribe to us on iTunes and hey if you like the show why not give us a review?

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Various events far too boring to describe led to a very delayed podcast this week. But that shouldn’t stop you from listening because this hour and 30 minute long podcast is well worth it. Unsurpringly it’s all about E3 which just finished up in LA.

Andrew takes up the hosting chair again since John was at E3 itself checking out all the cool new stuff. He’s joined by Ross Adams, John Carson and Damon Fillman. While none of us in the podcast were at E3 we all watched the Microsoft conference and we go through it point by point.

Those who watched will note that there was absolutely no XBLA related stuff at that conference, but don’t worry we hit all the latest XBLA news first. That includes the announcement of the Summer of Arcade line-up so get listening!

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Remember all those great cartoons you watched as a kid in the 80’s (or 90’s to a certain extent)? Ronimo Games certainly do and they’ve produced a theme song for their upcoming XBLA game Awesomenauts that could be taken straight from one of those cartoons.

Awesomenauts is a multiplayer online battle arena game, we’re still not entirely sure what that means. We know it’ll involve lots of shooting, nostalgia and online multiplayer. Thankfully we have some new details thanks to the guys over at Gamergeddon. Check them out after the jump. Read More

It was outed a while back but UTV Ignition has now confirmed the existence of Mercury Hg and it’ll be coming to XBLA this Summer. The Mercury series …
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Atari has announced a new action RPG for XBLA, Gamma World: Alpha Mutation. It’s being developed by Bedlam who are behind the recent D&D Daggerdale. The game …
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The recently announced Metal Gear Solid HD and Zone of the Enders HD Collections will apparently be released on XBLA in addition to the planned retail release. We have …
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John Laster is out this week so Andrew Crews takes his place in the hosting chair. He’s joined by Ross Adams, Jonathan Cole and John Drawdy to talk about a ton of XBLA news that has come out over the past week. We’ve got new release dates, pricing, game announcements and a few pretty cool trailers. No one played much or any of last weeks release, Daggerdale, but we played a few other things so we talk about them a little.

Due to some technical issues we had to use the backup recording for this weeks show so apologies if the audio is a bit worse than usual.

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WayForward has made a name for themselves recently making solid 2D action platformers with very impressive 2D visuals. So it really shouldn’t come as any surprise that the first …
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Hot on the heels of announcing a release date and price, Marvelous Entertainment has detailed some of the changes we’ll see to the XBLA release of Half-Minute Hero. Rather Half-Minute Hero: Super Mega Neo Climax to give the game its full name.

The most notable change to the game is a brand new high def visual style. Gamepro got a early peak at the game and describe the graphics as “more in line with the flat, construction paper stylings of South Park”. Quite the change from the original PSP games 8-bit inspired visuals. For those not too enamoured with the new style there’s no need to fret as the option to play using the retro graphics will be available.

You can see more of the new visuals for yourself in the screenshot gallery after the jump.

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Trenched, the third of Double Fine Production’s downloadable titles, finally has a release date. We’ll all be able to take up arms in our walking trenches on June 22. The announcement comes by way of the above video which also shows the games opening cutscene and sets up some of the backstory.

While you wait try out the game next month, check out the dev diary after the break to hear some of the guys behind Trenched talk about how the game came about. Read More