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It’s that time of year again — SPIKE TV’s annual Video Game Awards. This year marks the tenth anniversary of the tribute show, showcasing the big names …
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Taking advantage of its one week’s head start, Harmonix’s Rock Band Blitz more than doubled the sales of its closest XBLA rival for the month of September, according to …
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• Minecraft has reached yet another sales milestone on XBLA. As announced on 4J Studio’s Twitter, a whopping 4 million units have been sold to date.
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The ever-growing trend of releasing great video game music continues. Three games (well, their developers, composers and publishers) are itching contribute songs to your MP3 playlist. First up is …
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It’s hard to keep track of all those XBLA release dates, they often seem to spring upon you, seemingly out of nowhere, at the last minute not to mention those promised games you were looking forward to that just seem to disappear into the ether without explanation. Now with XBLA Fans new monthly update keeping track, you can start organising your MSP more effectively and schedule in some serious controller time and sick days well in advance.

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PAX Prime kicks off in Seattle this weekend and we’re happy to hear that a number Xbox Live Arcade will be on display. Over at the Microsoft booth, alongside big hitters like Halo 4 and Gears of War: Judgement, visitors can check out upcoming XBLA titles State of Decay, Happy Wars, the as yet unannounced Crash Course 2 and upcoming multiplayer racer Avatar Motocross Madness. Microsoft will also have all the winners of this year’s Dream Build Play competition. The Indie Megabooth will also be worth a visit as they’ll be demoing a number of indie games, including some hotly anticipated XBLA games such as Charlie Murder, Mark of the Ninja and Super Time Force.  XBLA Fans will be attending the event which runs August 31 to September 2, so be sure to pop back for all the news. Hit the jump for a list of games confirmed as playable at the Megabooth.

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This week there’s a whole lot of game talk, including a good portion about Dust and sadly a fair bit about The Expendables 2. I stumble through the news in Perry’s absence and then we fire through the Community Corner.

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Trapdoor Inc. has published and developed two games this year with the House Party title Warp and the immensely popular Fez. They haven’t formally announced what they’ll be doing …
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Every year, E3 seems more hectic than the last. We spent five hectic days getting our eyes and hands on every XBLA game possible and we’ve picked out eighteen games that stood out from the crowd. Here is the run-down on the very best XBLA titles from E3 2012. Read More

Todd returns from E3 this week, so once we get the new releases out of the way it’s pretty much all Todd all the time. He tells us about some of the games he saw last week, a list of which you can find below. So if you were interested by the XBLA games being shown off last week, odds are we talk about them this week.

Please subscribe, rate and review the podcast on iTunes. We appreciate it! Check us out on twitter (@XBLAFans) where you can win codes for games, give us feedback or just ask a question. We are also now on Stitcher, so you can stream the show on your smartphone, give it a go!

Big thanks to Chris Green for the awesome theme music, be sure to check out his site BlurredEdge and why not follow him on twitter too @BlurredEdge.

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