PAX East is this Friday and while passes for that day are remaining slim, if you’re going to the event you might want to check out this mega booth of awesome indie games, some including great XBLA games. Skulls of the Shogun, Super T.I.M.E. Force and Joe Danger: The Movie are all making appearances with Vessel, Charlie Murder and Runner2: Future Legend of Rhythm Alien making a stop too. There’s a total count of 16 developers from Capybara to Hello Games to Ska Studios, you’ll be able to see them all! We’ll be taking a look at a good sum of these titles here when XBLA Fans hits PAX East this weekend. Be sure to hear more impressions from all of us on the exciting new indie games to come out on XBLA.
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Dying with style in new Trials Evolution video
Trials Evolution now has a release date, a price point, 400 gamerscore and a trailer. What it doesn’t have is a montage (montage!). Lucky for us IGN have put together this nifty sequence showcasing some new in-game footage alongside some comedy montage music…we’re assuming. Either way it’s a pretty cool watch. The video has been tagged as containing some mild spoilers though, so you have been warned. Trials Evolution skids onto XBLA April 18 for 1200 MSP as part of Microsoft’s Arcade Next promotion.
Source: IGN
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Charlie Murder’s first trailer merges punk and brawler
After The Dishwasher series, James Silva and gang at Ska Studios have been hard at work on the XBLIG-turned XBLA game Charlie Murder. We finally have our first trailer of the game in action and it looks like Punk goes Beat ‘Em Up Volume Blood. You see bars and shows with lots of murder and mayhem from the band, beating up hordes of people with any type of items they have on hand from pool cues to swords and just for kicks, flamethrowers.
The plot of the game involves the fictitious band against their rivals, Gore Quaffer who’ve unleashed an army on the band. While it may look like a simple brawler, the description of the trailer indicates there will be RPG elements and you’ll see some rhythm-based sections where you play a show and must tap the corresponding buttons. The game will be at PAX East in playable form and XBLA Fans will be all over the punk-rock action. No release date has been said but expect the game “someday”, hopefully sooner rather than later.
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Anomaly Warzone Earth striking April 6 for 800 MSP
Continuing with the new tradition this year of Friday releases after South Park: Tenorman’s Revenge but before Fez, Microsoft is publishing 11 bit Studios’ upcoming Anomaly Warzone Earth. It’ll be released on April 6 for 800 MSP in case you want to get in on all the reverse-tower defense action. 11 bit also provided us with a inside-look at the process of finding the right controller for game. You’ll see hilarious attempts at the control until finally getting it perfect with the Xbox 360 controller. If you want to find out more about the game, we’ll have an interview going up just before the release and also a podcast interview with the developer. Be sure to check this one out next Friday.
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Awesomenauts awesomely arriving on May 2
Update: Joystiq updated their post to unveil an awesome price of $10 which translates to 800 MSP. No more awesome jokes after this one, promise.
If there’s one game a lot of the staff are excited for here at XBLA Fans, it’s Ronimo’s Awesomenauts. The upcoming MOBA game in 2D with amazing 80′s style presentation finally has a release date of May 2. Even while the Arcade Next promotion continues with Fable Heroes on the same day. You’ll just have two multiplayer games to play on the same day! Don’t forget to meet the Awesomenauts above in a trailer. No price was announced for the game but we’ll let you know if it’s awesomely priced or not (we’ll stop with the “awesome” jokes).
Source: Joystiq
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Team 17 announce Worms Revolution
Team 17′s mystery announcement has finally been revealed as a…Worms game! But this one is brand new and developed from the ground up with a new engine. The game will have new features plus some of your returning favorite weapons such as Super Sheep and The Holy Hand Grenade. The game is scheduled to hit XBLA sometime in Q3 2012 which’ll be between April and June with no price announced currently. Check out the short trailer above and stay tuned for more news on this upcoming new addition to the Worms franchise.
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The Pinball Arcade coming April 4 for 800 MSP
We had been expecting The Pinball Arcade to release this past Wednesday but after a last minute delay it’s now set to release next week, April 4 for 800 MSP.
To celebrate the launch date, Farsight Studios have released a trailer showing the four tables that will be part of the game at launch. Above you’ll see some gameplay from the Tales of the Arabian Nights, Ripley’s Believe it or Not!, Black Hole and Theatre of Magic tables.
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Trials Evolution shifts into gear with another trailer
Hot on the trail blazed by the massive Arcade Next promotion announcement, Trials Evolution has another exhilarating trailer showing off the new wild skill trials. The name is quite telling, as in the video you see a rider in a UFO, trying to fly with skiis, and even a dude with some sort of strange ball-carrying apparatus attached to the bike. At this point, Trials Evolution may as well just be pandora’s box on a bike, and we’re just fine with that. We’ve talked about the awesome Limbo-themed level, but we’re excited to see what else players will make in homage to other XBLA games.
Trials Evolution will be launching April 18 to kick off the Arcade Next promotion with a 1200 MSP price point and includes 60 solo missions, 10 wild skill challenges, full online and offline multiplayer and an amazing track editor.
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Wrecked launch trailer takes revenge and revisits first place
– March 28, 2012Posted in: Videos
According to the above launch trailer, 505 Games and Supersonic Software’s Wrecked: Revenge Revisited is all about finishing first. While that may initially sound like an extreme variance from the norm, it turns out this sort of thing is very common in racing games. Who knew?
Supersonic previously developed Mashed and Micro Machines V4. The studio’s combat-racing game debuted today, March 28, on XBLA for 1200 MSP.
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Alien Spidy spins up a new trailer
Publishers Kalypso Media have released a new video that proves that alien spiders are cuter than your average bathtub beastie. The latest trailer for upcoming physics based platformer Alien Spidy, shows off a visually stunning 2D/3D world for you to swing through. The story will focus on the adventures of Spidy, who has crashed his UFO on Earth whilst trying to rescue his friend Virgi who disappeared during an exploration mission.
The game promises to combine fast paced platforming with challenging puzzles, while you collect parts for your UFO and battle bosses over 3 unique environments and 70 diverse levels. It’s being developed by Madrid based developers Enigma Software and is scheduled to release sometime Summer 2012.
