XBL Indie Games Uprising returns this summer, taking submissions

Following the "commercial and critical success" of last year's Xbox Live Indie Games Winter Uprising promotion, a new Uprising event has been announced for this summer. The clearly named Indie Games Summer Uprising is scheduled to kick off on August 22 and run through September 12, with two games planned to release each week.

This time XBLIG developers are being called upon to submit their games ahead of time for consideration. Starting July 4, voting will begin to decide the final list of featured titles. There's already and impressive list of candidates, with over two dozen games submitted. You'd best hurry if you'd like your project considered: Submissions will only be accepted until June 24.

We've included trailers for some of our favorite submissions after the... (Continue Reading...)

Mass Effect 3's trip into space gets a trailer, useful purpose







So, remember how EA and Bioware are launching six copies of Mass Effect 3 into (near) space? Well, they're still doing that, and now there's a trailer about it that you can watch.

The trailer itself is not particularly informative, but the press release delivered with said trailer actually contained some cool information about the event. Specifically, students from the High Altitude Balloon Club at Texas A&M University will be assisting with each of the six launch sites around the world.

Once the event is complete, EA will be donating all of the equipment used during the publicity stunt to A&M's Aerospace Engineering department, which will then take the gear to Alaska and use it study the aurora borealis. We're glad to hear this advertising campaign will... (Continue Reading...)


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