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This Week On Live Arcade: R-Type Dimensions

5:30AM Mike Fahey | This Wednesday on Xbox Live Arcade, shoot-em up fans get a healthy dose of redone retro goodness with R-Type Dimensions, repackaging and repolishing the first two games in the R-Type series. More »

R-Type Dimensions Screens A Force To Be Reckoned With

3:00AM Michael McWhertor | Who knew that the Xbox 360 would become *the* place to get one’s shmup fix? With R-Type Dimensions coming to the Xbox 360, recreating R-Type and R-Type II in Xbox Live Arcade form, Microsoft has secured nearly every important shmupping franchise, already having nabbed Ikaruga, DoDonPachi, Raiden IV and 1942. OK, that’s not every important franchise, but it’s a pretty good collection and it has Cave on its side. More »

R-Type Coming To Xbox Live Arcade

5:40AM Michael McWhertor | The Bydo empire must be destroyed. Again. The Australian Office of Film and Literature Classification has rated a new title in the series, named R-Type Dimensions, for an upcoming Xbox Live Arcade release. The surprise announcement, dug up by GamerBytes, shows that Microsoft will publish, but that developer Tozai will handle all the coding wizardry. Unfortunately, there’s little else in the way of concrete info for R-Type Dimensions, such as whether it will be a totally new entry in the series or a HD remake of a previous entry. Whatever the outcome, we don’t care. It’s R-Type! ‘R-Type Dimensions’ Coming to Xbox Live Arcade! [GamerBytes] More »