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Zeit² is a sidescrolling Shoot ‘em Up developed by Brightside Games and published by Ubisoft. It’s available on the XBLA for 800 microsoft points.

XBLA games are frequently prone to being viewed as “casual” because of their price point, and as such it’s easy to assume any XBLA title will have a casual playing style to it; Zeit² does not. The game has a tutorial where they explain how the game works and how to play, along with supplementary tips throughout the Arcade experience, but the handholding quickly ends and Zeit² shows itself to be a top shelf challenge worthy of any sidescrolling shoot ‘em up lover.

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If you’re a Bomber-man (or woman), you’ll recall that Bomberman LIVE was notorious for lots of inexpensive DLC that tossed in some new costume pieces to collect and fun maps to play on. Well, it seems Hudson is keeping the fuse ticking with Bomberman Battlefest, as they’ve now put out their second Bomb-Up pack for Bomberman Battlefest! Read More

Recently, the Castle Crasher‘s leaderboards hit the 2,000,000 gamers mark, and to celebrate The Behemoth is holding a Tournament of Champions! Sounds knightly doesn’t it? But of course, ruthless competition is worth nothing without prizes- shiny prizes, especially if they have functional uses as well, right? If you agree, you’ll be glad to know the reward for first place in the tournament is a gold plated Xbox! It works too and boy is it shiny. Read More

Runic Games just announced Torchlight will be coming to XBLA, and instead of leaving the air full of questions and concerns, they quickly followed up with a load of information regarding the upcoming release. Read More

Time bending shoot ’em up  Zeit² is heading to XBLA next week, Wednesday January 12th. Zeit² will allow you to play cooperatively …with yourself. Coming from indie developer Brightside …
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We’ve had a Summer of Arcade and a Game Feast now it’s time for a House Party, the next promotional event Microsoft is having for Xbox Live Arcade. Beginning on February 16th with the release of Hard Corps: Uprising the promotion will include some fairly big name titles. Aside from the aforementioned Hard Corps the House Party will also include Beyond Good & Evil HD, Torchlight, Bejeweled Blitz Live and Full House Poker. A trailer has been released for Beyond Good & Evil HD in which you can see the newly revamped visuals, it certainly doesn’t look like a game that came out in 2003. Check it out below. Read More

Capcom has just announced at CES2011 that (among other things) the sequel to their XBLA hit, Bionic Commando Rearmed, will be dropping on February 2nd for the measly 1200 msp ($15). Featuring more levels, more abilities and more mustache, how could one refuse? Full synopsis, new screenshots and trailer after the jump.

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Huge thanks to the entire team of writers who worked on this article: Andrew Crews, Cameron Titus, John Carson, Todd Schlickbernd, Tyler Cameron and Xeserox

We’ve spent the past week searching the internet and hounding our industry contacts in an effort to compile the ultimate 2011 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.
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Runic Games has just announced that their PC powerhouse dungeon crawl RPG Torchlight is joining the Xbox Live Arcade House Party lineup. The game has been completely revamped (e.g. …
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ilomilo was developed by SouthEnd Interactive and published by Microsoft.  It was secretly released on XBLA last week and is scheduled for an official release on January 5th.  It will be a part of the “Games for the Holidays” promotion starting on December 22nd.  If you want to get the game early, you can read how to get it in the XBLA Fans preview post. Read More