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Galaga Legions which looks sexy as hell:

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I think Galaga Legions is going to get more playtime out of me than all the recent XBLA games combined.

I love how crunchy and visceral they made it.

any word on if they touched up Duke Nukem at all?

Just one game then, and now that I read that I do remember seeing that.

Just looked at my global GW2-Sequence ranking and noticed who was 5 spots above me world-wide.

I can't be havin that, looks like I'll have to put some time in, last I checked my score was good enough to be in the hundreds

Pre-order Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts and get a code for the original Banjo-Kazooie on XBLA. Source. Only valid at "participating retailers." Still not a bad deal considering the game is only $40 SRP.

I have mine on preorder at Newegg for about $38. I doubt they'll get the code though, so I may have to cancel it.

Woot! Now how do I find out who is a participating retailer?

Who knows. Kind of a lame announcement when you don't know where to pre-order it. November isn't exactly around the corner. They could have held the announcement a few weeks until the details were worked out so they could provide more information on the deal.

Confirmed. Pixy is the #1 player worldwide in BC:Rearmed. Wow. That's pretty cool in the geekiest way I can imagine.

And guess who put in a score of over 81 million in my 2nd game of sequence of the night? That's right, me.

Per OXM : "The Arcade rebirth brings a wealth of new features to the table, including eight-player online oc-op and Dukematch, recordable and uploadable user gameplay clips, Vision-camera support for multiplayer lobbies and - get this- Tivo. Yes, when you die, you can rewind as far back in the level as you like, be it five seconds or five minutes. No need to save your game anymore!"

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And for my monthly OXM XBLA review round-up :

Braid : 9.0
Good: Challenging fulfilling concepts and exceptional puzzles. Bad : Boss battles out of place and some puzzles need to be reset.

Castle Crashers : 8.5
Good : Exciting 4 player coop in beautiful funky world Bad : Repetitive combat and poorly balanced solo difficulty

Geometry Wars Evolved 2 : 9.0
Good : New modes are unique, fun in solo and multiplayer. Awesome visuals. Bad: No online play.

Zombie Wranglers : 6.0
Good : 4 player vs and coop. Good graphical style -comedy and zombies. Bad :Gameplay, environment get repetitive fast.

Bionic Commando Rearmed : 7.0
Good : Swing mechanic is still unique, Gorgeous look Bad : Too difficult, anything less than perfect = death

Age of Booty : 8.0
Good : Simple, addictive real-time strategy with a great theme. Robust local and online multiplayer. Bad : Ally AI can be irritating.

Galaga day.

This one's for Pixy:

I played the Galaga demo before I left for work. Got to level 4 of adventure mode before it faded out (5 minutes?). Didn't really struggle at all with it and wonder if it goes beyond 5 levels (as the achievements max out there).

Not sure if this will have the replayability of Pac-Man:CE, but I have only got a small taste. I did like it, but I'm a Galaga freak.

Nice Sequence score L&O . That's an awsome gametype, I plan on playing it more soon.

Holy shitballs man

Loving me some Galaga Legions so far. Very challenging to say the least and while I believe there are only 5 areas the demo is only Area 1 and within the Area is about 5 levels. So basically the demo if one is able to clear it would just be the 1st achievement of cleared Area 1. So far only have gotten 2 achievements of Clear Area 1 and then beat a level without deploying satellites. Was very close to the clear an area without dying but alas did not. While I think I would say I enjoy Pac Man C.E. more this is definitely a lot of fun and will not be as easy to get all the achievements but then again Pac Man has always been easy for me

I tried Galaga for just a moment this morning. It's pretty cool. The satellites are a cool feature that really mixes up the gameplay, or rather will once I figure out how to configure them correctly. Lots of stuff on screen at once; I kept losing track of my ship. Still, nice game overall and seems like a winner to me in my brief experience.

Yeah, I'm not sure what happened but I didn't die until at least the 10th or 11th frame. And then that was only once for another few levels. I think when I started the last line of levels I had 5 lives still, ensuring I'd get the Game Over achievement. I was watching the "next up" scores and before I knew it, Pixy was there challenging me. I think I could've beat him, but I panicked once I reached 80 million and still had 2 levels to go. Then I shit the bed. And in true nerd fashion, I ran to the computer to post - but the forum was down.

Galaga Legions is super awesome! The Pac-Man CE team did it again.

Galaga Legions eats the souls of babies.

Did someone say sequence :P

Yeah, it'll take some practice to get those patterns down - at least they give you some warning as to how they're going to approach.

For the Bionic Commando Rearmed fans out there, the soundtrack is available on iTunes and via www.sumthingdigital.com. I picked it up today and it's fantastic. One of the best video game soundtracks in recent memory IMO.