Bastion, SuperGiantGames’ premiere game is about to hit Xbox Live Arcade next week. We had the opportunity to speak to creative director Greg Kasavin on the heels of the gaming madness under one roof that is called E3 2011, where Bastion scored numerous awards from a ridiculous number of publications.
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Get ready! It has been announced that David Jaffe, known for Twisted Metal and God of War, among other games, will be cutting the starting ribbon as the keynote speaker in this year’s PAX Prime.

Panels this year will dive deep into gamer culture, with discussions about the best and worst of gaming with some of the bigger names in the business, so the press release promises.

In terms of exhibitors, you can look forward to seeing 2K Games, Activision, Bioware, Capcom, NCsoft and Turbine, as well as special appearances by trading card companies like Wizards of the Coast and Privateer Press. Halo Fest is touted to be a huge event based on Microsoft’s gigantic franchise, which will take place on third floor annex of the Washington State Conference Center, all during PAX Prime.

Geek related music is also having a spot at PAX, featuring some names I frankly haven’t heard of but maybe that’s another more reason for me to turn in my geek club card. Featured artists include:

Jonathan Coulton

MC Frontalot

Metroid Metal

Minibosses

Paul and Storm

And showing off their instruments for the first time in PAX this year, Supercommuter and The Video Game Orchestra!

Does this all sound awesome? I certainly think it does!

Do you want to go? I don’t think so! Unfortunately, all tickets are sold out. Unless you guaranteed yours ahead of time, you’ll have to wait ’til next year!

PAX Prime 2011 will take place in Seattle, from August 26th to the 28th, in the Seattle Convention Center.

Pinball! Captain America! Fantastic Four! Do you like any of these things? You’re in luck!

Zen Studios has graciously given us a few copies of their newest DLCs for Pinball FX2, Marvel Pinball Captain America and Fantastic Four! We’re giving them away through Twitter. All you have to do to enter is to tweet the following:

Want to win a copy of Marvel Pinball from @Zen_Studios? All you need to do is RT to win! #TheDailyDLGiveaway

We’ll pick winners randomly! Make sure you are following @TheDailyDL so we can DM you your prize if you win.

Zen Studios has been doing a bang up job with Pinball FX 2. What started out as a pretty good pinball simulator is now one of the most active Xbox Live Arcade and PlayStation Network games, thanks to a continuous stream of excellent DLC. Marvel Pinball continues on, this time through the trenches of WW2 with good ol’ Cappy America.
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Microsoft’s Larry Hrub, a.k.a Major Nelson has just revealed the official list of games that will be released during the Summer of Arcade promotion set to start next month on Xbox Live Arcade.

July 20th will be the day we’ll all be able to jump into the colorful world of Bastion, for 1200 MSP. If you’re into the good kind of dust, you know, the one where silicon comes from, you’ll be able to go with From Dust on July 27th. August opens up with the aptly named Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet, for 1200 MSP on the 3rd, followed by Fruit Ninja Kinect on August 10th, in which you massacre helpless fruits while flailing your arms like an insane person, all for 800 MSP. Closing the promotion, Toy Soldiers: Cold War will relive your childhood Rambo fantasies without the need of any steroids on August 17th, for 1200 MSP.

And if you buy all five games, you’ll get Crimson Alliance along with three downloadable characters, for free. Unless you’re like me and live in one of the three countries that Microsoft expressively excludes from the promotion – Brazil, South Africa or Japan. In that case, you get nada. Nani-mo. Fokol.

Indie developer SuperGiantGames has just announced over their Twitter account (@SupergiantGames) that Bastion will be released on Xbox Live Arcade on July 20th, for 1200 MSP. It will be the first title in this year’s Summer of Arcade promotion, along with From Dust and Toy Soldiers: Cold War, to name a few of my most eagerly awaited games in that program.

SuperGiantGames has garnered quite a reputation after securing a publishing deal with Warner Bros Interactive shortly before this year’s E3. Bastion had a small booth at the show but attracted a lot of attention regardless, with its mix of Diablo gameplay with a beautiful and colorful pastel painting.

The developer was formed early last year by ex EALA devs Amir Rao, Gavin Simon and Darren Korb, who were later joined by former 2K producer Greg Kasavin, programmer Andrew Wang, artist Jenn Zee and Logan Cunningham, who provides the voice for Bastion’s storyteller and narrator.

You can finally stop trying to come up with half-ass excuses for PvP fights in Magicka when playing co-op with your friends. Arrowhead, the developer of the hit sorcerer magic combo game that swept the gaming world earlier this year has finally released the most awaited content patch yet!

Your copy of Magicka can now be updated via Steam to include a player vs. player game mode that includes two new PvP maps as well as a new robe type for your mage and three PvP modes to pick out from, along with a balance patch and a few tweaks to gameplay.

The best part about this news: the PvP update is completely free. BANENERS!

Steam has also included a few new paid DLC packs along with the PvP update, for your deathray-your-foes-pleasuring in the form of Final Frontier, The Watch Tower, Party Robes and Frozen Lake, the first priced at $2.99 and the rest at $1.99.