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Originally Posted by wraggster

Looking for some more variety in game modes? DICE has upped the number of official servers for Battlefield 3 on consoles – four-fold. Quick matches will still drop you into the first available ranked server, rented or not, but if you input "DICE" when searching, it should list all the available DICE servers.

You'll find these newly-added DICE servers available on Xbox 360

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Originally Posted by wraggster

Spelunker HD – the PSN game from Tozai Games about an extraordinarily fragile cave explorer, not the XBLA game Spelunky that was partially inspired by Spelunker – will get new DLC almost two years after release, along with a free update.

The update, due August 28, adjusts the camera in online multiplayer, and gives you ten new "Championship Mode" stages for free! Seven more Championship Mode packs

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Originally Posted by wraggster

Happy Wars, an adorable multiplayer action combat game, just got even easier to try out. Microsoft announced that it will release ToyLogic's game as XBLA's first for-real free-to-play game. When Happy Wars launches this "autumn," it'll be a free download for Xbox Live Gold users, supported by the purchase of "lavishly rendered items" to customize your character.

Microsoft has made moves toward free-to-play on XBLA before, but never quite closed the deal. Crimson

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Originally Posted by wraggster

Cave's newest arcade shoot-em-up, DoDonPachi Saidaioujou, is coming to Japanese Xbox 360s next spring, the company announced today. Saidaioujouhit the country's arcades back in April.
The shmup specialists only just released 2011's Akai Katana on Western shores, so it may be a while before Saidaiojou's brand of vertical bullet-hell reaches us. In the meantime, we can look ahead to the game's dress-up shtick.

Your ship's abilities and the game's difficulty depend on which outfit

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Originally Posted by wraggster

When we woke up this morning, we weren't expecting to round out our day with the visceral image of man-sized teddy bears hanging by nooses from a ceiling. This latest trailer for Naughty Bear: Panic in Paradise shows off the eponymous bear's new combo-based combat system, range-based enemy AI, and Naughty's ability to pick up bears and stick their tongues into the spinning blade of a rotary lawnmower.

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