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Check Out Trials Evolution’s Customisation Options

9:30AM February 3, 2012 | Pierre Bienaimé

This trailer for Trials Evolution twists the Darwinian motto into “Survival of the fastest”, and truly it does seem that it will be a more sophisticated beast. More »


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Gravity-Defying Xbox Live Shooter Hybrid Is Back And Better Than Ever

5:00AM February 1, 2012 | Mike Fahey

After making a big splash during its first showing at the 2011 Game Developers Conference, 5th Cell’s dizzying cover-centric 3D shooter Hybrid was dragged back behind closed doors in May in order to make sure it was the “highest quality title possible”. Let’s see what changed the past eight months have wrought. More »


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Holy Shit, Fez Might Actually Be Out Soon!

5:00PM January 31, 2012 | Luke Plunkett

‘s Fez, a world-shifting indie platformer that’s been coming to Xbox Live Arcade longer than some of you have been alive, might actually be out soon. Why? It’s been rated by the ESRB. More »


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Xbox Live Arcade Game Leaks Onto Torrent Sites

1:00PM January 31, 2012 | Luke Plunkett

PC games leak all the time. Even console games eventually turn up on torrent sites once their discs are pressed. But an Xbox Live Arcade game getting out, and one which isn’t that close to release, that’s a little stranger. More »


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DoDonPachi Maximum To Shoot Up Xbox Live And Windows Phones

11:30PM January 24, 2012 | Brian Ashcraft

The shooter Cave was teasing is DoDonPachi: Maximum. It’s slated for Xbox Live and Windows Phone 7. [Cave via WPCentral]


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Doom Is Back Up On Xbox Live

1:30PM January 19, 2012 | Owen Good

Doom, one of the progenitors of the first-person shooter genre, has returned to the Xbox Live Marketplace after a mysterious three-month hiatus. The classic PC title is available for 400 Microsoft Points ($5). More »


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Colourful Platformer ScaryGirl Arrives On XBLA

7:30AM January 19, 2012 | Kirk Hamilton

ScaryGirl, a few-years-old flash platformer based on Nathan Jurevicius’s graphic novel, has been released on Xbox Live Arcade, with a PSN release scheduled for next week and a “coming soon” release date for PC. More »


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This Might Be The Reason Behind The Xbox Live ‘Hacks’

1:00PM January 16, 2012 | Luke Plunkett

Ever since the first wave of “FIFA Hacks” surfaced last year, a lot of people have been complaining that their Xbox Live accounts had been “hacked”. Microsoft has continually denied any such breach of security, but you know, there have been too many cases for too long now for this to be nothing. More »


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Warp Turns A House Party Into A Cute Adventure Puzzler

12:20PM January 12, 2012 | Luke Plunkett

Puzzle games over the past few years have focused around physics, and around playing with those physics to accomplish goals. Warp features a cute little alien who dies from one bullet and teleports a couple feet at a time. Yes, this is a video game, not an upcoming kids cartoon. More »


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Hey Nexuiz, Aren’t You A Little Pretty For An XBLA Shooter?

12:30PM January 11, 2012 | James Pikover

Quake mod Nexuiz (pronounced “nexus”) is so heavily modified that it’s practically it’s own game. It has been for years, since 2005, with a modified Quake Engine, completely overhauled weapons, but the same fast-paced gameplay. Someone at THQ must have been fond of the PC mod, because not only is it making a big comeback, it’s coming back stacked. More »