Spelunky

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Two of the most hotly anticipated XBLA titles primed for release this year have been nominated for awards at the 2012 Independent Games Festival. Polytron developed Fez and Mossmouth’s XBLA version of PC-hit Spelunky have tallied five nominations between them. Congratulations are in order.

Both games have been put forward for the Seamus McNally Grand Prize as well as the Technical Excellence award, with Spelunky snatching a third nomination in the Excellence in Design category. The caliber of the competition at this year’s Independent Games Festival is particularly high with games like Atom Zombie Smasher, To the Moon and Frozen Synapse vying for bragging rights alongside the future XBLA titles, a sure-fire indication of Fez and Spelunky’s potential to be something special.

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Huge thanks to the entire team of writers who worked on this article: Christine Mitchell, Nathan Bowring, Perry Jackson, Ryan Reynolds and Todd Schlickbernd.

We’ve spent the past week searching the internet and hounding our industry contacts in an effort to compile the ultimate 2012 XBLA Game Release List. We anticipated one heck of a year for Xbox Live Arcade. So epic we couldn’t even fit everything on one page. So without further ado, check out the list:

For detailed descriptions of each of the games and videos check the links below.

XBLAFans Anticipated 2012 Releases A-B
Alan Wake’s American Nightmare
Alien Spidy
AMY
Anomaly Warzone Earth
Awesomenauts
Babel Rising
Bang Bang Racing
Battleblock Theater
Black Knight Sword
Blade Kitten: Episode 2
Bloodforge

XBLAFans Anticipated 2012 Releases C-F
Capsized
Charlie Murder
Choplifter HD
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive
Deep Black Episode 1 & 2
Defenders of Ardania
Diabolical Pitch
Dust: An Elysian Tail
Dungeon Fighter Live (unannounced title)
Fez

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We’ve spent the past week searching the internet and hounding our industry contacts in an effort to compile the ultimate 2012 XBLA Game Release List. We anticipated one heck of a year for Xbox Live Arcade. So epic we couldn’t even fit everything on one page. So without further ado, check out the list:

XBLAFans Anticipated 2012 Releases A-B
XBLAFans Anticipated 2012 Releases C-F
XBLAFans Anticipated 2012 Releases G-L
XBLAFans Anticipated 2012 Releases M-O
XBLAFans Anticipated 2012 Releases P-R
XBLAFans Anticipated XBLA Game Releases S
XBLAFans Anticipated XBLA Game Releases T-Z
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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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At Game Developers Conference 2011 panelist Andy Hull confirmed that the Xbox Live Arcade port of the PC indie hit Spelunky will have four player simultaneous gameplay.  “We’ll have …
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