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Spelunky debuted in 2008 with pixels aplenty promising prominently prospecting-prioritized gameplay for the PC. Well now it’s coming to XBLA and bringing it’s intuitive cavern adventure awesomeness with it. …
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Next Thursday marks the first ever Section 8: Prejudice Clan Tournament. Both Xbox 360 and PC player will be able to register for the tournament, but registration won’t start until …
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Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet is slated as the last game to be released for Microsoft’s Summer of Arcade and is being shown much love. It was on display here recently at E3 for people to play and have questioned answered. Many people took advantage of this situation, quickly taking a liking to it, which is clear through all the positive feedback it has received. Even our own John Laster went hands on and had some really good things to say about it in his Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet Preview.
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Very recently news broke on The Gunstringer’s shift to retail distribution and little was known why Twisted Pixel suddenly changed their focus. A recent blog post on their home …
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Those looking to submit a game for Microsoft’s Dream.Build.Play competition have just hours left. According to the official rules any submissions must be received by 1:59:59PM (CT). If you’re …
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XBLA tie-ins are a great way to give game players a bite-sized and concentrated taste of a retail game. Dead Rising: Case Zero and Dead Rising: Case West have …
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The Adventures of Shuggy looks to be this year’s Super Meat Boy — perhaps not in difficulty, but more in raw, addictive, 2D side-scrolling fun. It’s got a sort …
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Acclaimed movie and television star Sir Patrick Stewart, famous for his role as Captain Jean-Luc Picard in Star Trek: The Next Generation, now has a major role in the upcoming War of the Worlds game. His part is as the narrator, narrating the adventures of an average man trying to save his family from an alien invasion in 1953 London. The story will parallel the 1953 movie adaptation, but will follow different characters, locations, and a whole new story arc.

The game will be a 2D side-scrolling action-adventure, requiring players to use their wits to outsmart tripods, drones, and other alien menaces while crossing a devistaded landscape, but there will be a hint mechanism if you get stuck. The game will try and capture the fear and isolation of the original H.G. Wells novel by making players think fast or suffer an instant death. Today’s news came with some new screenshots, giving a glimpse in the game’s action. War of the Worlds will be released later this year. Check out the additional art and screenshots after the jump.

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The Awesomenauts developer Ronimo Games has confirmed that the six characters featured in the trailer make up the final roster. From left to right, top to bottom it’s Yuri, …
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Several details on the upcoming Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike Online Edition release have come forth from Capcom’s Seth Killian. In an interview with Destructoid, Seth talked on some of the training modes, nifty online features and other superficial (and yet awesome) details that will give SFIII‘s return to glory a little something EX-tra for the fans. The video can be found after the jump, but here’s a quick list of the features mentioned in the interview:

• As you play, challenges show up that can be achieved for currency used in the game’s vault unlock system. There are hundreds of them and they get more and more difficult as you progress.
• The menu features redrawn portraits of each of the characters. While which character is random, your most-played character has greater favor with the gods of randomness.
• Several settings to customize your fighting experience including standard or widescreen, filters that change the game’s look from new to old or more like the arcade and more.
• Different chip sets including the re-balanced version as well as the initial version complete with unblockables.
• Trials to learn the mechanics of the game or a specific character ranging from easy to hard; parry one fireball or parry all of Chun-li’s super as Diago did that famous Evo.
• GGPO online network coding, tournament modes, spectating, pre-game button remapping and Youtube match uploads give SFIII Online Edition a robust showing on the XBLA. Read More