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Xbox Live Summer of Arcade Continues

Xbox owners will want to make note three more Live titles will be arriving throughout the month of August to add to your collection. The folks at Xbox want to make you aware Charlie Murder arrives this week with Flashback and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows following over the next two weeks. The first of the Summer of Arcade releases, Brothers – A Tale of Two Sons, hit last week.

Here’s the scoop on the four titles:

Following the August 7 release of Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons, Charlie Murder will be released August 14, Flashback will be released August 21 and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows will be available August 28.  For more information, visit www.xbox.com/summerofarcade, and be a part of the conversation at #summerofarcade.

Microsoft Studios has teamed up with several popular YouTube gamers to host a live streaming gameplay event showcasing each week’s new release.  

Lisa Foiles will be hosting the live shows and will also feature JesseCox, Raychul Moore and GameGrumps. Visit http://www.youtube.com/Polaris to stream the live event.

xbox_brothers-logoBrothers – A Tale of Two Sons

Guide two brothers on an epic fairy tale journey from visionary Swedish film director, Josef Fares and top-tier developer Starbreeze Studios. Control both brothers at once as you experience co-op play in single player mode, like never before. Solve puzzles, explore the varied locations and fight boss battles, controlling one brother with each thumb stick. This is one journey you will never forget.

  • Starbreeze Studios
  • 505 Games
  • Action & Adventure

xbox-charlie-murderCharlie Murder

It’s a punk rock apocalypse! Team up with your friends to lead embattled punk rock band Charlie Murder in their epic quest to save the world from rival death metalers Gore Quaffer and their legions of evil. RPG it up as you hoard insane loot to buff your character (and look excellent), earn fans to unlock powerful finishers and teamup moves, get tattoos to channel your “Anar-Chi,” and uncover mysterious relics of modern myth!

  • Ska Studios
  • Microsoft Studios
  • Fighting, Platformer

xbox_flashbackFlashback

Take on the role of Conrad B. Hart of the G.B.I. and uncover a vast and deadly alien conspiracy that threatens everything it means to be human. But before you can save the human race you must rediscover who you are, as you desperately search for the missing data files containing your memory to piece the puzzle together. 20 years after the original game’s launch, Conrad is enlisted back to active service for the triumphant return of one of the best adventure-action games ever created. It’s Flashback re-imagined by its creators.

  • VectorCell
  • Ubisoft
  • Platformer

xbox-tmnt-out-of-the-shadowsTeenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows takes you back to how it all began. Be the four Turtles Leonardo, Donatello, Michelangelo, and Raphael in the fight to save New York City from mutants, the Foot and Shredder. With seamless drop-in, drop-out co-op, along with team combo moves and relentless combat, this is the game fans have been waiting for.

  • Red Fly
  • Activision
  • Action & Adventure
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