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Posted by Erin Marcon On Wednesday 1 September 2010ADD COMMENTS

Dark Energy Digital’s offices are flooded yet again. No wonder we’re still waiting for Hydrophobia…

Microsoft’s Major Nelson has gazed into his crystal ball. Instead of sneaking a peak at the lotto numbers, he’s unveiled the Xbox Live Arcade line-up for the next two months, or at least a large proportion thereof. Let’s take a look.

Wednesday 8 September: Hmmm. A tough choice first up. PopCap’s diabolically addictive tower defence game Plants vs Zombies or budget Wii port Dance! It’s Your Stage? Thank goodness we have a week to think about it.

Wednesday 15 September: Sonic Adventure becomes the latest Dreamcast title to grace the service. SEGA’s fast paced 3D platformer was originally issued in 1999 and is considered by some critics to be the last great Sonic game.

Wednesday 29 September: Not a dream! Not a hoax! It appears that Dark Energy Digital’s perennially delayed undersea action game Hydrophobia is finally set to surface. We’ll believe it when we see it.

Wednesday 6 October: Drawing inspiration from various eras of American and Japanese comic books, Comic Jumper is the latest platformer from talented ‘Splosion Man developer Twisted Pixel.

Wednesday 13 October: Zen Studios’ Pinball FX would be a lot more fun if we could work out what the hell was going on. Perhaps the creatively named Pinball FX 2 will help us make sense of it all.

Wednesday 20 October: Indie darling Super Meat Boy finally gets its moment in the sun, which is probably isn’t all that hygienic. Who wants to play as a chunk of meat? Wow, a surprising number of you. That’s kind of disturbing.

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