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Developer SpikySnail Games celebrated its game The Splatters passing Microsoft certification by releasing a launch trailer (which can be viewed above). Also announced is the game’s release date, April …
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We had been expecting The Pinball Arcade to release this past Wednesday but after a last minute delay it’s now set to release next week, April 4 for 800 …
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Hot on the trail blazed by the massive Arcade Next promotion announcement, Trials Evolution has another exhilarating trailer showing off the new wild skill trials. The name is quite …
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Over three years later, we finally have a release date for Fez and it’s coming much sooner than the previous rumored May 2 date. It’ll be coming out on …
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We got a lot of racing and some DLC on XBLA Wednesday this week. First up, Wrecked Revenge Revisited for all you battle racing fans. You’ll race against competitors …
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Xbox 360 owners now more frequently use their consoles for viewing movies and TV shows and listening to music than they do for playing online games, Microsoft told the L.A. Times yesterday. All told, Xbox-equipped households are now devoting 84 hours monthly to all of those activities, with a smidgen over 50 percent of that time being spent taking in non-gaming media, said Xbox marketing and strategy boss, Yusuf Mehdi. The total usage figure represents a 30 percent jump from one year ago.

“What we’re seeing is that people are turning on the Xbox to play games and then keeping it on afterwards to get other types of entertainment,” Mehdi said. Entertainment features on the console falling under the broad “other” umbrella have increased drastically since the console’s November 2005 launch. Today alone Microsoft rolled out MLB.TV, Xfinity On Demand and HBO Go applications. As the Times noted, their inclusion brought the current tally of entertainment media services available on the platform up to 36.

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Angry Birds creator Rovio Entertainment returned from the money-filled vacuum of space today and used its massive gravitational pull to acquire Finnish developer Futuremark Games Studios. The studio is the gaming wing (terrible pun definitely intended) of 60-employee-strong Futuremark Corporation, which develops tools and services for PC and mobile applications.

“Futuremark will now focus on supporting gamers and industry with 3DMark, our professional grade benchmark which, in a new version to be released later this year, will allow unified gaming performance comparison across operating systems and form factors for the first time,” Jukka Mäkinen, Futuremark CEO, said of the move.

The developer is probably best known among gamers for its work on the tower-defense title Unstoppable Gorg, which is currently available on PC and iOS. An XBLA version port of the game was previously announced and is currently listed as “coming soon” on the game’s official website.

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With a licensed game it would be easy to slap a different render on the same character build and just pretend that makes them unique, especially with a property …
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This week’s Deal of the Week is aimed at those petrol-heads amongst us. As well as some offers for Forza fans, 3 XBLA games will get a 50% discount …
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As part of a push for an enhanced presence at the upcoming PAX East, Ska Studios has unleashed upon the world the first official logo for its upcoming side-scrolling …
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