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Hello and welcome, fans of old school gaming, to XBLA Fans’ Super Meat Boy Bandage Guide. Getting all the bandages in Super Meat Boy will unlock some secret characters and serve as undeniable proof of your platforming prowess. This guide will help you find whatever bandages you’ve missed, or tell you how to get that one you can’t seem to reach.

Need help on a different world? Check out our other guides:

Super Meat Boy Bandage Guide: World One

Super Meat Boy Bandage Guide: World Two

Super Meat Boy Bandage Guide: World Three

Super Meat Boy Bandage Guide: World Four

Super Meat Boy Bandage Guide: World Five

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Konami have announced that Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D’s Decade Duels will be coming to Xbox Live Arcade this week, Wednesday November 3rd. Click below to find out more about the game that just loves d’s. Read More

It’s time to give little Fluffy some Microsoft Points and let him loose on your 360 because this weeks Xbox Live Deal of the week has a pet theme. What does that mean? Click through to find out. Read More

That’s right, B&M videogame chain Gamestop is moving into a new frontier, online distribution. What does this mean for us, the gamer? What does it mean for game developers? And what about Microsoft?! Well, read on to find out.

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That’s right, in a few hours you will be the new owner of a 2010 Fall Update 360 Dashboard! Want to know what you are getting with this great deal? Well come on down and read our bullet-points!

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Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz and Star Trek star Simon Pegg named as the voice talent for upcoming EA’s Bright Light title.

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Dream Chronicles was developed by KatGames and published by Hudson Soft for XBLA on October 20th, 2010. Retails for 800 Microsoft Points. The publisher provided a copy of the game for reviewing purposes.

You’d be forgiven for having not heard of Dream Chronicles, a port of a 2007 PC game released with little fanfair on the same day as Super Meat Boy and Costume Quest. Dream Chronicles is a hidden object game for the most part with some puzzle and adventure elements thrown in for good measure, with a style very reminiscent of Myst and similar games.

You play as Faye an occupant of the Village of Wish which has had a spell cast over it causing all humans to fall asleep. Faye’s husband (Fidget who we discover is actually a fairy) managed to awaken Faye before being captured by the Fairy Queen of Dreams, Lilith. It is Lilith who is responsible for Wish’s current slumber. You must find your way to Fidget but Lilith uses her magic to slow you down at every opportunity. Read More

The following article is based around an email interview conducted by our team with Jake Kazdal, CEO of Haunted Temple Studios. For the uninitiated, Haunted Temple Studios is currently developing Skulls of the Shogun for Xbox Live Arcade for Spring 2011 release.

Skulls of the Shogun is a turn based strategy title. Players take on the role of a Samurai General who was betrayed by one of his closest allies and slain in the moment of his greatest victory. Awakened in the afterlife, he finds the same opponent has betrayed him again in death. As a result, he begins a rampage trashing the laws of the Samurai afterlife as he seeks revenge.

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Trials HD developer Red Lynx has released a somewhat spooky (it is almost Halloween afterall) video showcasing some of the secrets hidden within it’s XBLA title. Alot of the secrets will be new to many and the video notes there are more still to find. It ends with the chilling revelation that there are Squirrels hidden in the darkest corners of the game. Frightening indeed. Click below to see the video for yourself. Read More

Scribblenauts developer 5th Cell have been teasing an announcement this week, well the teasing is over! Their next game will be a post-apocalyptic third person shooter called Hybrid. Click through for more info and the teaser trailer. Read More