Ms. Splosion Man may have just hit XBLA today but Twisted Pixel isn’t done with the game just yet as they have revealed that they will be supporting the title with free weekly DLC challenge maps. These challenge maps will feature weekly leaderboards and marketing director Jay Stuckwisch also promised prizes to be given out “from time to time” to the top players of the week.

Ms. Splosion Man’s official site also launched today and the game’s soundtrack will be available for download free of charge soon.

A recent entry on the Korean ratings board has outed Limbo for the PSN.  Limbo was previously released on XBLA during last years summer of arcade event and has since gone on to win the “Technical Excellence” and “Excellence in Visual Art” awards at the 2010 Independent Games Festival.

As a fan of the game I would highly suggest checking it out once it becomes available on the PS3.

It looks like the upcoming installment in the long-running Tribes franchise (check here for our previous coverage) will be free-to-play. In order to make the game financially feasible, developer Hi-Rez is taking a hint from League of Legends and will make the players buy their loadouts. So if you want to play as a fast, nimble character, you’ll have to buy a loadout for that. Want to defend your flag with heavy weaponry? Buy a heavy loadout featuring heavy weaponry.

Hi-Rez plans to release new loadouts in regular intervals, mixing different equipment like armor, weapons, grenades, etc. , just like Riot does with Champions in League of Legends. To be honest, I’m not sure if this is such a good idea. Will the game be able to stay balanced when not everyone has access to the same loadouts? Will players actually want to own several different loadouts, or just buy the one that suits their playstyle? This announcement sure stirs up some questions, but I guess we’ll see how it all works out when Tribes: Ascend releases later this year.

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.

French gaming magazine NoFrag recently had a chance to sit down with Todd Harris, director of Hi-Rez Studios, and ask him a couple questions about their upcoming game Tribes: Ascend.

Originally developed by Dynamix, Hi-Rez Studios aquired the rights to the Tribes franchise in October 2010 and have since then been working on the next two installments, the second being being an MMO called Tribes: Universe. Hit the jump for a summary. read the entry »

There’s no doubt that PopCap sells their games like gold and not the least of which are the Bejeweled games. As simple as they are, they can also be very addicting to both casual and core gamers. Well, PopCap has announced that they are bringing Bejeweled 3 to top consoles in five versions according to the press release.

It was first released back in December and is already out for PC and Mac, but the third game will arrive simultaneously on Xbox 360, Xbox Live Arcade, Playstation 3, Playstation Network, and the Nintendo DS some time later this year in the fourth quarter across North America and Europe.

“Critics agree that Bejeweled 3 raised the standard for match-3 games to new heights,” said Ed Allard, studio head at PopCap games. “This holiday, we’re bringing that experience to Playstation 3, PSN, Xbox 360, Xbox Live, and Nintendo DS gamers with adaptations that look great and play even better on each platform.”

I still remember playing through Sonic Adventure back when it came out on the Dreamcast. Firing it up again on the 360 re-introduced me to some characters, like Big the Cat and Amy, who I had all but forgotten about. But have my memories betrayed me? Were Sonic’s eyes too green on the Dreamcast? Were his legs too long? Are my jokes too old? I’d better write a multi-paragraphed review so people can read it and find out.

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Gameplay of the re-vamped TMNT-Turtles in Time has been leaked onto the internet.  The game was discovered earlier this week and should be coming out for XBLA, and possibly PSN, and Wii.  I’m a Ninja turtles nut so I’m a bit excited!

Via: Destructoid / ScrewAttack