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Team Meat’s manic and mercilessly tenderized hero, Super Meat Boy, is set to make his debut on Xbox Live Arcade on October 20. The developer announced the date via Twitter, and indicated that the well-done platformer would be part of “Game Feast,” a new promotion from Microsoft Game Studios that should be detailed later today.

With Super Meat Boy making up the main course, Game Feast might just be burger, better and more badass than the recently concluded Summer of Arcade. See the full poster after the break.

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Xbox Live’s ‘Game Feast’ serves up Super Meat Boy on Oct. 20 originally appeared on Joystiq on Tue, 31 Aug 2010 05:38:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Bloomberg guesstimates that Microsoft’s Xbox Live service “probably” surpassed $1 billion this past fiscal year. The financial outlet came to that conclusion using fancy mathematicals after Microsoft claimed that half of Xbox Live’s 25 million users paid the annual fee, and Xbox COO Dennis Durkin stated “in an email” that product sales on the service surpassed subscription revenue. Now, we all know there are ways around the $50 annual Xbox Live fee, but let’s surmise Bloomberg is right with its estimate of $600 million in revenue. That would mean the service generated $1.2 billion in sales last year.

Contacted for comment, Microsoft’s official statement read: “We do not have any more details to share. Microsoft does not break out Xbox LIVE earnings.” At the end of the company’s third quarter, it did say that Xbox Live was a major contributor to revenue for the division that houses the Xbox. The company will officially announce the results of its fiscal year, which ended June 30, on July 22.

Bloomberg: Xbox Live sales ‘probably’ topped $1 billion originally appeared on Joystiq on Wed, 07 Jul 2010 20:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Director of Programming for Xbox Live Larry Hryb, or rather Major Nelson as he’s known to gamers at large, has posted some upcoming Xbox Live Marketplace content on his blog. Most of it includes some deals of the week, and the arrival of Red Faction: Guerrilla and Need for Speed: Undercover on Xbox Live Games on Demand, but more importantly was the mention of Earthworm Jim HD . We knew it was coming , once gamers made their choice , but when and for how much has been somewhat of a dizzy, foggy conundrum.

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Xboxic reports: “Things on Wheels, currently available now on the Xbox LIVE Arcade has not one, but two downloadable content packs planned for release in the near future.”

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The charmingly monochromatic Limbo is not making its way to the PC or PlayStation Network after all. Following yesterday’s ESRB ratings discovery which suggested the platformer would appear on Xbox Live Arcade as well as PSN and PC, developer Playdead’s Dino Patti has clarified : “We are only launching the title on XBLA.” “You won’t see a PS3 or PC version this time around, sorry.” The CEO’s “not sure where the mistake was made” but says the studio has asked the ESRB to correct it and remove the PC/PSN ratings. The release date remains a vague ‘ summer 2010 ‘.

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Xbox Live Arcade has grown by 11% in April with three of the service’s prominent indie games making the top of the list.

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The end of Playdead Games’ recent trailer for Limbo , an eerily intriguing platformer, was as generic as it gets.  There was no release date, no ESRB rating, and no platforms listed to look forward to being scared of the dark on, just the title splashed across the screen. Of course, the video was put out before the ESRB released final rating

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The long-rumored Duke Nukem: Manhattan Project is indeed coming to Xbox Live Arcade, Microsoft has confirmed.

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EA’s shot over a fresh trailer for this Summer’s DeathSpank , the latest from Monkey Island creator Ron Gilbert. The clip is a minute and a half-long and goes over the basic story of the role-playing arcade game, due out on both Xbox Live Arcade and PlayStation Network

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A new Virtual-On game for the Xbox 360 has been revealed by Japanese games magazine Famitsu, titled Virtual-On Force ; and while the franchise’s previous entry, Oratorio Tangram , was released on Xbox Live Arcade, Virtual-On Force will receive a proper retail disc release. The magazine reports that the game will feature online Xbox Live play, two vs two “Leadership Org Battles”, and even four player split-screen.

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