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A few weeks back Sega and Arkedo took the veil off Hell Yeah! Wrath of the Dead Rabbit, the violence filled platformer formerly known as Project Hell Yeah. At the time of its announcement, only a stylized teaser for the game was released, leaving us to use our imaginations to picture what the game would look and play like. Today, Sega released the first screenshots of the game in action, giving us our first legitimate look at the game. You’ve never seen the rabbit prince of hell getting revenge for the leak of explicit rubber ducky photos like this before! Read on for the gallery of screenshots and expect Hell Yeah! Wrath of the Dead Rabbit to hit Xbox Live Arcade sometime later this year.

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Sega recently announced their Vintage Collection for PlayStation Network and WiiWare. Sadly the Xbox 360 wasn’t in the original announcement, however a marketplace listing reveals that a slightly different collection will be coming to our platform of choice. Sega Vintage Collection: Monster World is a combination of three classic Wonder Boy titles: Wonder Boy in Monster Land, Wonder Boy in Monster World, and Monster World IV, the latter of which will be making its debut appearance outside of Japan. The listing shows a release date of April 25, 2012, however these dates are sometimes placeholders, so we can’t confirm that as an actual release. Thanks to @lifelower for the initial tip that got the ball rolling. Hit the jump for the official description and a slew of screenshots.

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Virtua Fighter 5 was first released in 2006. Since then it’s seen multiple iterations. The newest of those is Final Showdown, which could be defined as the ultimate version of the game. When Final Showdown released in the arcades in 2010 it featured new animations and character costumes. Also included were two new fighters, Taka-Arashi who hasn’t been playable since VF3, and Jean Kujo, a character introduced in Virtua Fighter 5 R. As far as XBLA fighting games go, this looks to be the definitive version of the game. Sega had this to say on the matter.

“Virtua Fighter 5: Final Showdown is the definitive version of the Virtua Fighter 5 series, incorporating all of the enhancements the arcade team has rolled out since 2007[.]”

“Final Showdown makes significant improvements to the fighting mechanics and adds new single player and online modes while maintaining the series’ classic balance and precision.”

Virtua Fighter 5: Final Showdown is slated for release sometime later this year. Until then whet your appetite on the above trailer (courtesy of GameSpot) and additional screenshots after the jump.

Source: CVG

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Telltale Games have revealed that their upcoming episodic adventure game adaptation of The Walking Dead is just about ready. The game is expected to be submitted for approval on Xbox Live Arcade this week, a process which is thought to take around six weeks. In an interview with Digital Trends, Telltale Games CEO Dan Connors expressed his desire to get the game out as soon as possible to capitalize on the TV show’s popularity. With the second season of The Walking Dead set to end on March 18 in the US, an April or May release at the latest is hoped.

We recently spotted a marketplace listing for The Walking Dead showing a release date of April 25. While this may only be a place holder date, it does tie in with Telltale’s expected release window and is also exactly 6 weeks today so you never know! The listing also shows off some new screenshots which you can check out here after the jump. Read More

Every day goes by that we add another racing game to XBLA and this time, it’s Jeremy McGrath’s with Jeremy McGrath’s Offroad. 2XL Games are behind the helm and there’ll be plenty of different types of trucks to race in from Rally to Pro Buggie to Pro Lite. There’ll also be online multiplayer for up to eight players and an entire Career Mode about Jeremy’s rise to win the Pro2 championship. Here’s a quote from Jeremy McGrath himself on the game and check out the screenshots after the jump.

“It’s great to see something that started as an idea turn into a killer video game thanks to the guys at 2XL Games! I am sure my fans from both moto and offroad are going to love it.”

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MMA or Mixed Martial Arts is a big deal with a huge fan base and it looks like XBLA will be stepping into some sort of octagon very shortly with Bellator: MMA Onslaught for XBLA. The game is developed by Kung Fu Factory who are also working on the upcoming Girl Fight, perhaps not to take sides on either gender by developing two fighting games. Dan Yang from 345 Games had this to say about the game.

“It was imperative that we create a mixed martial arts game accessible to all types of players not just the hard core MMA fan. Fortunately, with ‘Bellator: MMA Onslaught,’ the player doesn’t need a doctorate in gaming or MMA to enjoy the non-stop action and excitement of the game.”

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Defenders of Ardania got its official XBLA release date announcement today and it’s sooner than you might think. The next generation tower defence game is set to buddy up with 4-player co-op shooter Shoot Many Robots for a March 14 release. The game is set in the fantasy world of Majesty and players can take control over both the defending and the attacking sides. Tower Offence game anyone?

There are 3 different playable races to choose from, each with their own distinguishable locations, towers, and units. It’s being developed by Most Wanted Entertainment who promise the game to be innovative with its RTS element, taking the popular genre to a new level. Multiplayer is of the online variety with 2-4 player competitive and co-operative gameplay modes on offer. The game will be priced at 1200 MSP on release and you can check out some lush new screenshots after the jump.

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We got a first hand look at Wrench from the upcoming fighter Girl Fight and now a Marketplace listing has fallen in our hands. There’s also up to 20 new screenshots of the game in action that sprawls over a series of locations with ladies in military attire, knight armor, and some of them still forgot to bring shirts to the fight. Nevertheless, check out the jump for the screenshots and Marketplace description before this gets delisted. We’re still looking at a spring release and the listing does bring a rumor of a March 19 release date but this unconfirmed at this date.
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When Mojang’s Minecraft launches on XBLA, supposedly later this month, it will do so sans Kinect functionality, according to statements made at Microsoft’s Spring Showcase event. However, 4J Studios — the team responsible for the Xbox port of the popular world-building PC title — has plans to eventually patch support for Microsoft’s motion controller in at some point after the launch.

Roger Carpenter, lead producer of the XBLA version, told Eurogamer that there is good reason for the delay. They were afraid that if they crammed Kinect controls in on day one, there was a chance they would “for want of a better phrase, mess it up,” Carpenter explained. “Minecraft’s so dear to so many people that we had to nail it on a controller, and on Xbox.”

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Valve has unveiled a fresh batch of Counter-Strike: Global Offensive screenshots that capture in stunning high-definition a few of the many awesome-macho-military-man poses you can pull when CS:GO launches this summer on XBLA. Stare with primal rage down the ironsights of a shotgun, take a moment to gaze pensively into the camera whilst clutching a grenade and, er, squat in the corner? Of course, that release date heralds from the mouth of Valve and so translates to a tentative pre-2020 release. Pew pew pew!

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