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This Week: Diner Dash, Gyromancer, Peggle Nights DLC and discounted 3-on-3 NHL Hockey

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Diner Dash®, the number one PC time-management game has landed onto Xbox LIVE®! Guide Flo, a former office-worker turned restaurateur, as she builds up her diner empire. Go online and face players in head to head matches to see who's the best Flo. Join up with a friend or another player online for a Team Dash game where your team takes on six other players to see whose diner is the best in town.

“Diner Dash” drops the beat on November 18th at 9 a.m. GMT (2:00 a.m. PDT).

Published by Hudson Entertainment and developed by Backbone Entertainment, “Diner Dash” will be available for 800 Microsoft Points everywhere except Korea and is rated E for Everyone by the ESRB. For more details on “Diner Dash” you can visit: http://www.xbox.com/games/d/dinerdashxboxlivearcade/ or http://www.xblarcade.com/node/2373

PopCap Games and Square Enix to release puzzle-RPG Gyromancer next week

Square Enix Ltd., the publisher of Square Enix® interactive entertainment products in Europe and other PAL territories, announces the upcoming launch of Gyromancer™ for Xbox LIVE® Arcade for the Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system from Microsoft on Wednesday, November 18th.

Gyromancer is a new puzzle-RPG developed in collaboration between Square Enix and PopCap. With a blend of puzzle elements from the PopCap Games puzzle hit Bejeweled Twist™ and the RPG mastery of Square Enix, Gyromancer is an all-new experience that defines the puzzle-RPG genre.

Preserve your world or destroy it in Greed Corp

W!Games are proud to reveal that their fresh and innovative turn-based strategy game, Greed Corp, will be released on Xbox LIVE® Arcade for Xbox 360 for the Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system from Microsoft in early 2010.

The first in a series of games based in the rich Mistbound universe, Greed Corp is set in a world of feudal warfare and environmental destruction through industrial consumption. As one of four warring factions your aim is territorial domination, but at what cost? Can you find the delicate balance between harvesting the land for resources and preserving it to stay alive? Will you defend your territory or sacrifice it to keep it out of enemy hands?

This Week: 0D Beat Drop, Encleverment Experiment and NBA Unrivaled

The fusion of "rhythm" and "puzzle" creates a completely new kind of game in 0D Beat Drop! Drop pieces along with the beat, and go for the win with explosive chains. In addition to the single player mode with over 100 stages, online play includes options such as playing against a single player, playing with four players total, or having a team battle! The unique "Beat-O-Matic" function analyzes your own songs and lets you use them in the game. Feel the rhythm of the beat!

“0D Beat Drop” drops the beat on November 11th at 9 a.m. GMT (2:00 a.m. PDT).

Published by ArcSystemWorks and developed by Cyclone Zero, “0D Beat Drop” will be available for 800 Microsoft Points everywhere and is rated E for Everyone by the ESRB. For more details on “0D Beat Drop” you can visit: http://www.xbox.com/games/0/0dbeatdropxbla/

Ready to challenge your brain on XBLA with Encleverment Experiment?

Blitz Arcade announced today plans to launch its Xbox™ LIVE® Arcade game Encleverment Experiment™– a clever Avatar supported game for gamers who think they are clever – next week. To mark this announcement, the first trailer for the game was released today along with screenshots. Keep reading…

Encleverment Experiment invites players ages five and older to join brilliant and eccentric Professor Ivor Question in his funky lab. Gamers enjoy a variety of fun and fast-paced challenges testing memory, reflexes, and dexterity. Response time and accuracy are rewarded with Noodles, the in-game currency. The game’s challenge is to accumulate Noodles, but out-braining your friends is fun, too.

The game features two main game styles: Take-a-Test Mode for single players and Game Show Mode for 1-4 players.

OneBigGame announces first not-for-profit game Chime for Xbox LIVE Arcade this Winter

OneBigGame, the non-profit publisher of videogames formed in 2007, is proud to introduce the first game to be published under its label. Chime, created pro bono by music game specialists Zoë Mode, is a unique block puzzle game fused with music creation elements and contributions from a number of famous musicians. Chime will be released this winter on Xbox LIVE® Arcade.

Chime introduces a creative twist on both music and block puzzle games. The game will task players with covering a number of different grids with irregular shapes, each connected to a sound effect from the different music tracks, to form rectangular blocks, called quads. As gamers slowly cover the grid, they will be building up the song playing in the background in a unique way. Working their way to 100 percent coverage, players will unlock the song in full. Easy to get into but hard to master, Chime will hook fans with its addictive game mechanics and cool music tracks by Moby and Paul Hartnoll (Orbital), among other yet unannounced artists.

Diner Dash dishing out fun on Xbox LIVE Arcade in November

Hudson Entertainment is preparing to serve up a piping hot helping of Diner Dash® on November 18th for Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system from Microsoft.  A new version of Diner Dash, the award-winning casual game franchise created by PlayFirst that has sold over five million units, is coming to Xbox LIVE® Arcade for the first time.

“Diner Dash will feature the classic gameplay that fans have come to adore along with updated HD graphics,” said Sabine Duvall, vice president of product development at Hudson Entertainment. “With a brand-new 8-person multiplayer mode, a whole new group of players are going to enjoy Diner Dash.

This Week: Wallace and Gromit's Grand Adventures Episodes Two, Three and Four

Wallace and Gromit's Grand Adventures

Fans have been waiting for the rest of the Xbox LIVE Arcade releases of Wallace & Gromit’s Grand Adventures –for nearly 6 months now, since the first episode was released on the service. This week, Telltale Games and Xbox LIVE Arcade are releasing the remaining three epsiodes all at once - The Last Resort, Muzzled! and The Bogey Man. All three will be available this Wednesday, November 4th for 800 Microsoft Points each.

Episode 2 - The Last Resort: When unrelenting rain ruins their holiday plans, Wallace & Gromit bring the beach to 62 West Wallaby with a makeshift resort - in their basement. Keeping customers satisfied is tricky business, especially when one of them is clocked on the head by an unknown assailant. Whodunnit? Find out... with a little help from Wallace's latest invention, the Deduct-o-matic!

Episode 3 – Muzzled: Monty Muzzle, a newcomer in town, is holding a grand fundraiser to rebuild the local dog shelter. Gromit soon realizes that Muzzle's intentions aren't exactly charitable and he must foil the huckster's plot to save the town's investment and rescue his canine friends.

Episode 4 - The Bogey Man: Wallace has been admitted to Prickly Thicket, the oldest country club in Lancashire. Wallace and his faithful caddie Gromit get wrapped up in a decades-old club dispute that threatens to destroy their peaceful West Wallaby lifestyle, and the duo must fight to save the neighborhood they hold dear!

“Wallace & Gromit’s Grand Adventures” continues on November 4th at 9 a.m. GMT (2:00 a.m. PDT).

Fret Nice lets you rock out with the first XBLA game for guitar controllers

Fret Nice is a unique platform game with a distinct art style, a lot of great music and support for all guitars controllers out there. Fret Nice is the first platform game ever to be played with a guitar controller. The game will be available from Xbox LIVE Arcade sometime in early 2010.

“We felt sorry for gamers who bought a guitar only to be used for pure music games, so we made a platform game for them! Fret Nice is the perfect blend of two worlds.” says Pieces Interactive CEO Johan Hellberg.

Pieces Interactive is an up-and-coming Swedish developer that has quickly garnered attention to their titles. Their unique style and innovative game mechanics, blended with great music has become a signature trademark. In fact, at E3 this past Summer, Tecmo Inc (the creators of such hits as Dead or Alive, Ninja Gaiden and Tecmo Bowl) announced that they would be publishing Fret Nice from developers Pieces Interactive.

Fire up Splosion Man to get red-hot new prizes!

Tiwsted Pixel Games' Splosion Man and Heartland Quality Omaha Steaks Sweepstakes Twisted Pixel Games has announced three new reasons to play Splosion Man on Xbox LIVE® Arcade during the next few weeks: free avatar awards, free meats, and improved online multiplayer. CEO Michael Wilford said “we’re excited because this is the biggest update to an existing game, with a lot of chances for players to score some free new stuff.”

Avatar Awards: Now that the Xbox Dashboard fully supports awarding players with avatar accessories from within a game, a title update has been released early this morning to enable Splosion Man’s awardable functionality, making it the first game to provide this feature to players free of charge. Players who have already performed the achievement will be awarded their accessories at the main menu, while new players will get to see a preview of what their avatar looks like wearing the accessory. Players can win two male and two female accessories for free by playing through Splosion Man.

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