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Remember all those great cartoons you watched as a kid in the 80’s (or 90’s to a certain extent)? Ronimo Games certainly do and they’ve produced a theme song for their upcoming XBLA game Awesomenauts that could be taken straight from one of those cartoons.

Awesomenauts is a multiplayer online battle arena game, we’re still not entirely sure what that means. We know it’ll involve lots of shooting, nostalgia and online multiplayer. Thankfully we have some new details thanks to the guys over at Gamergeddon. Check them out after the jump. Read More

The Serious Sam franchise has always been about out of this world, bullet spraying shooters. Until recently those were always 3D, but Mommy’s Best Games aims to change that. …
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It was outed a while back but UTV Ignition has now confirmed the existence of Mercury Hg and it’ll be coming to XBLA this Summer. The Mercury series …
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Atari has announced a new action RPG for XBLA, Gamma World: Alpha Mutation. It’s being developed by Bedlam who are behind the recent D&D Daggerdale. The game …
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Have you always wanted to talk with your friends in a virtual environment using Avatars? Well in July, you’ll begin to with the use of Avatar Kinect. It lets …
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Supergiant Games along with WB Interactive are set to bring you Bastion during this years Summer of Arcade and it keeps looking more wonderful with each passing image and video. In the E3 trailer, we get a sense of how the action is played in this action/RPG romp and how incredibly detailed the art is. Check out the video above and after the break for some screenshots and virtual box art.
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At E3, a survival horror game was shown for XBLA that goes by the name of Amy from VectorCell and Lexis Numerique. You play as Lana who wakes up in Silver City in the year 2034 after a comet attack that caused a virus outbreak, spawning strange creatures. You meet up with an autistic girl named Amy who has mysterious powers and work together in order to escape the virus threat. Unfortunately, Lana is also infected which you will have to keep up to date with on the color-coded meter on your back by healing yourself or by being around Amy to keep from getting too infected. You’ll go through more infected areas and change form from woman to monster which will help around areas with lots of monsters but too much and it’ll be game over. Amy is shaping up to be an interesting XBLA title combining arcade action with survival horror elements, check out some screenshots after the break.
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In the Blog section of the Skullgirls official site, lead clean-up artist Richard Suh goes into detail how to make the animation cleaner. A clean-up artist takes …
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At the Microsoft E3 Press Conference on Monday, they showed off some new features for the upcoming Dashboard update. The screenshots look very similar to how Windows 7 on phones looks and what to expect from the upcoming Windows 8. It showcases all the new upcoming features like Live TV, Bing search, and a lot of squares and rectangles. Keep a lookout for the update later this fall.
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Blacklight: Tango Down was developed by Zombie Studios and published by Ignition Entertainment and released on July 7, 2010 for 1200 MSP.

XBLA and the multiplayer FPS genre have a delicate relationship. Content, replayability, a large player base and something fun and interesting to weld it all together keeps a multiplayer FPS at the top of everyone’s mind and the front of everyone’s games played list. Retail FPS titles usually provide these flavors, as such XBLA titles have to ace them out in one of those categories to make the purchase worthwhile.

Blacklight: Tango Down provides a decent slew of game modes both solo and team oriented, 12 multiplayer maps, a robust customization system, and a an interesting mechanic that highlights enemies and points of interest at the expense of combat functionality. Last but not least Blacklight features a cooperative mode called Black Ops. A now-traditional FPS progression system is also in place to dole out unlocks at a steady pace.

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