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As reported yesterday, Trials Evolution was set to arrive on XBLA at an undisclosed date in April.  Thanks to a marketplace listing, the release date for the title appears to be …
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We don’t get many leap years but we’re getting one this XBLA Wednesday, filled with shooting. First-person shooting that is, with Nexuiz. With multiplayer action with over 100 mutators …
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Dark Energy Digital, the developer behind Hydrophobia, may be going under, says GamesIndustry.Biz. The site is reporting that studio employees were informed last week that the Manchester, England …
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For nearly two years, little information has been released on Biart Company and 505 Games’ Deep Black: Episode I, originally announced in July 2010. That kind of lag time might …
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Easily the most anticipated game amongst the XBLA and XBLA Fans community is Trials Evolution. The sequel to one of the biggest selling XBLA games, Trials HD, is hitting …
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Quantum Conundrum, the upcoming puzzler from Airtight Games under Portal creator Kim Swift’s helm is looking like a mighty fine logic-based puzzle game. Set in your uncles’s mansion, you …
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We got the teaser last week but now we have full confirmation that Jet Set Radio is the next Dreamcast game coming to XBLA in HD glory this summer. …
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Grasshopper Manufacture has released five new screenshots of their upcoming Kinect enabled baseball/horror hybrid Diabolical Pitch. For those unfamiliar Diabolical Pitch gives players control over a baseball player in an amusement park overrun by horrors. To fend off the game’s enemies, you’ll be throwing baseballs utilizing Kinect’s motion sensor. Think of it as a quasi-light gun game. One that has you throwing fastballs at guys wearing tiger masks. The madness can be kicked up a notch by playing the game with a friend in multiplayer mode, which allows you to combine forces and utilize different abilities and power ups. To take a look at the rest of the screenshots that Suda 51’s gang has tossed our way, click the link below.

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Diabolical Pitch will be the next game to feature Avatar awards. To see more XBLA-based Avatar awards, check out this link. If you want the latest Avatar award related …
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Nexuiz was developed by Illfonic and published by THQ. It was released on February 29, 2012 for 800 MSP. A copy was provided for review purposes.

Arena shooters are something of a lost art. To find a newly developed one is like finding money on the sidewalk: no matter how much is there you’re just happy to see it. But sometimes they miss the mark. The controls can be tight, the maps can be solid, the graphics can even be impressive, yet you turn delete the game from your drive and go back to one of your old staples.

Nexuiz is one of those. It’ll seem really enticing by its screenshots, but in the end there’s not much to keep you playing.

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