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The above image speaks for itself, Ska Studios have finally revealed the release date for The Dishwasher sequel Vampire Smile. Players can get the game …
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The House Party rages on for another week as Torchlight hits the Xbox Live Marketplace today. You can pick up the Diablo-esque dungeon crawler for 1200 Microsoft …
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Alot of news came out of GDC this week so it’s a slightly longer show as the guys try to hit some of the bigger stories and announcements. Double Fine revealed their next XBLA game and the guys are pretty excited by the prospect, 5th Cell finally showed off Hybrid and it has peaked some interest and the guys talk about some other trailers and sneak peeks that came out of GDC.

Beyond Good & Evil was the XBLA release last week, all three of our hosts tried it and have varying things to say about their time with the game.

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Moonshot games, a studio formed by a group of ex-Bungie employees, have announced their first game. Fallen Frontier is a 2D side scrolling shooter that will feature …
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The two console generations previous to this one saw a rather large amount of Star Wars related video games. With this generation however, due to various changes at LucasArts, we have been limited to LEGO Star Wars, Clone Wars and Force Unleashed games. Back in the PlayStation 1 era when Star Wars games were much more prevalent we saw the release of Star Wars Episode I: Jedi Power Battles.

The Episode I in the title would suggest this was planned as a series which would follow the prequel films as they were released. Perhaps that was the plan but aside from a Dreamcast port and a GBA version (sans Episode I title) of the PS1 game a sequel was never made.

Jedi Power Battles was essentially a side-scrolling brawler akin to Streets of Rage or Final Fight. Changing the protagonists to Jedi and the enemies from street thugs to droids and various other space menaces makes all the difference. Power Battles was good mindless fun, playing alone or with a friend one could quickly go from level to level tearing down droids and battling bosses. It wasn’t ground breaking by any means but it was a fairly well executed take on the genre with a Star Wars skin.

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The folks over at GameTrailers are grabbing a load of gameplay footage from games on the show floor at GDC. One such video shows off the destructive …
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Trendy Entertainment have been showing off Dungeon Defenders, their upcoming tower defense-esque game, at GDC. Our friends over at GameTrailers have put up a video showing off …
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5th Cell have released a new trailer for their upcoming XBLA shooter, Hybrid. They are currently showing the game off at GDC, where Joystiq got their hands …
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Some technical difficulties threatened to stop the XBLAFanCast after one episode but thankfully we recovered and can happily bring you Episode 2!

Andrew shares his thoughts on the closure of MyGamerCard.net and the guys are excited to see what former Bizarre studios employees do over at the newly formed Lucid games.

Is Bejeweled Blitz Live really worth paying for on XBLA? We debate that very fact before moving onto the surprise Friday release of Days of Thunder. A welcome surprise? Maybe not. John went to Robot Entertainment to check out their new game Orcs Must Die!, he tells us a bit about his experience with the game.

We’re now on iTunes! So please subscribe, rate and review us there. As before if you have any feedback or general comments then feel free to get in touch. You can either post something in the comments below or shoot us an email to podcast@xblafans.com.

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Twisted Pixel is currently showing off The Gunstringer at Microsoft’s Xbox Showcase event in San Francisco. At that same event it was confirmed, although we all but knew already, that Gunstringer will be an Xbox Live Arcade game. This makes it the first confirmed Kinect title for XBLA, although there are some as yet unannounced XBLA Kinect games in the works according to Microsoft.

Alongside this announcement the guys at twisted pixel have released a new batch of screenshots, check out the gallery below. Read More