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Giana Sisters: Twisted Dream Coming to PSN This Spring

Giana Sisters: Twisted Dream is a retro-style platformer that is being developed at the German studio Black Forest Games. The title features us the player as we accompany 2 eerily different sisters throughout a  beautiful looking world. The sisters each have their own special abilities that will allow them to assist us both in solving the worlds puzzles and taking down the fearsome bosses that await the end of each level. As the sisters transform and utilize their powers...

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Minecraft Takes the Cake on XBLA’s 2012 Earnings Report

Microsoft’s Xbox Live Arcade has doubled it’s yearly revenues from 2011 to 2012, according to analyst firm “FADE” (Forcasting & Analyzing Digital Entertainment). The numbers from 2012 have grown tremendously due to 47 Studios and Mojang’s Minecraft: Xbox 360 Edition, as well as an extremely successful Summer of Arcade promotion. The amount of great mutliplayer downloadable titles certainly didn’t hurt, either. Below is the list of the...

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Help Shape The Behemoth’s Next Game – Join the Beta!

The Behemoth, creators of the amazing four player co-op romp Castle crashers is currently creating it’s upcoming prequel to Castle Crashers: Battle Block Theater. Unfortunately, making a game isn’t all that easy. That’s why they want your help (Yes, you!) in making the game. The Behemoth sent word today that they’ll be hosting a one-week beta test of it’s upcoming Xbox Live Arcade game and that it needs 10,000 participants. Have an Xbox Live...

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Retro City Rampage Free for PS+, Coming to XBLA January 2nd

I thought I’d give you a little update on this retro-style GTA meets every NES game ever, developed by a single person…game. It’s now free on PS+ for subscribers for both the PS Vita and PS3, while supporting cross-save. Retro City Rampage will also be making it’s way to XBLA, January 2nd and is published by D3Publisher. D3Publisher is publishing the game on XBLA only, since that’s the only way you can make it onto XBLA and it will cost 1200...

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The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing Is Showing Its Teeth

We have seen a lot of screenshots and teaser trailers from The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing and now we are getting a chance to finally see what the vaunted son of Van Helsing can really do. Coming to PC and XBLA players will be thrust into the shoes of a monster-hunter who will fight from the Metropolis all the way into the Gothic Wilderness. Now we are getting a chance to see gameplay for the very first time and this top-down RPG looks to have all the goods...

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Black Knight Sword Coming To XBLA

SUDA 51 is bringing us a new game that will bring entertaining story telling to the classing old school platforming genre, and from I have seen so far Black Knight Sword looks like it has the potential to be a sneaky good title. Set in a dark fairy tale the title character is led by the Sword Fairy through a mysterious world filled with bizarre creatures and beautiful environments. The Black Knight is on a mission to discover who has trapped him within this...

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Trials Evolution Introduces Riders of Doom

With more than 200,000 user-created tracks and countless hours poured into their game the team at Redlynx is providing players with even more content to sink their teeth into. Riders of Doom is the newest expansion to Trials Evolution and brings riders into 40 new tracks set in The Big Sand Lands which is a new environment centered around the end of the world. The environment itself will crumble around the riders as the progress through each unique new track. Also available...