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In addition to all the great new releases coming to Xbox Live Arcade this month Xbox Live’s Major Nelson also posted some great little upcoming deals for …
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Xbox Live’s Major Nelson announced the remaining releases for the month of March today via his blog.  March 16 brings Full House Poker to the marketplace, an …
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The over-the-top vertical shooter Seisou Kouki Strania rains down destruction on its enemies March 30. Developed by G.Rev the game will retail for 800MSP. Little is known about the …
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This week’s Trials HD custom track comes to us from KatamariUK and is entitled Time Crisis.   The title fits the gameplay to a T — objects move to closer …
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Freshman developer Sprial Game Studios emerge on to the digital download scene with footage from ORION: Prelude. The game was born as a Half-Life 2 modification, but after a Kickstarter event the team was able to procure over 18,000 US dollars in donations, allowing them to take it from mod to stand-alone title.

From what’s been revealed so far two factions fight for their lives in a future filled with dinosaurs.  While this wouldn’t be a major blockbuster movie it sure sounds like an interesting premise for a video game.  No release date has been set, but the game’s progress can be tracked via the developer’s website.  We’ll also be following the game and posting any updates here at XBLAFans.  Check out an additional trailer after the jump.

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Vanguard Entertainment and Electronic Arts have released the debut trailer for their upcoming shooter Gatling Gears. Designed as a twin-stick shooter, the game features cooperative gameplay, lots of explosions …
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Some franchises will never have enough depth to be full retail titles on current consoles.  Pac-Man will never be a 10+ hour action adventure, Burger Time will never be an MMORPG, and Tetris will always be a simple puzzle game at its core. The Rampage franchise is one of those; as addictive as the gameplay may be it’s still very simple on so many levels.  There are no adventure quests, there’s no need to “level up”, and it will never need big name Hollywood voice actors.  But that doesn’t mean the franchise needs to be buried six feet under.  Xbox Live Arcade has become a hotbed for smaller-scale titles.  Whether the game is a trip back in time in the form of a remake a new IP it provides the perfect platform for smaller scale, smaller price games.  That’s where Rampage Total Destruction comes in.

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Perfect Dark was ported to the Xbox 360 by 4J Studios.  It was originally developed by Rare and published by Microsoft Game Studios.  It was released March 17, 2010 for 800MSP.

When Perfect Dark was released over a decade ago on the Nintendo 64 it was the definitive shooter for its day.  It started with everything that was great from GoldenEye 007 and took it beyond the limits a movie adaptation is forced to have.  Rare offered everything from co and counter operative gameplay to multiplayer challenges with bots.  The game received rave reviews from critics at the time.

Players first learned about the Xbox Live Arcade port in April 2009 via a single leaked screenshot of a developer’s dashboard which showed the icon of Joanna Dark behind the developer’s avatar.  The leak was confirmed in June of that same year by none other than Xbox Live’s Major Nelson.  But like so many games from yesteryear consumers had doubts as to whether the game truly lived up to their memories.

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The Behemoth announced their new character,the Pink Knight for Castle Crashers for PSN last month.  Sales from the Pink Knight DLC go towards breast cancer research.  While …
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Indie developer Fun Hazard have just released on-rails, twin stick, cooperative shooter The Sugar Killerz on Xbox Live Indie Games. It retails for 400MSP and features four player cooperative with …
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