Our latest coverage:  Gameplay Reviews previews Duality ZF.  Some highlights:

Shoot’em up fans get ready! Duality ZF looks like it’s shaping up to be the best shump this gen.

Duality ZF supports up to four players, and not only that, utilizing the dual sticks [...], each player can control two ships at a time. Add in that this isn’t a slow paced shump but furious bullet hell shooter, and you’ve got a pretty exhilarating experience.

The typical problem with a shump is that it has too much going on making it imposible for players to keep track of everything on the screen at once, but, in the case of this game, that isn’t an issue thanks to the artwork. The crisp, colorful art style makes it easy to see what’s going on. From the footage, you can see that they’ve avoided the typical problem of not being able to tell what’s a projectile.

With 96 [scoreboards], you can bet Duality ZF will become the ‘go to’ game for score chasing with your friends.

Duality ZF is launching on [Xbox LIVE Community Games] this summer, and with its price tag of 400 MS points, this could be the best deal on the Xbox Marketplace.

Duality ZF is our upcoming Xbox 360 2D shooter video game.  It will be released into Xbox LIVE Community Games in the summer of 2009.  Price: 400 Microsoft Points.  Subscribe to our social networks for notification.

Also See:

• Duality ZF (official site)
• Duality ZF April 2009 Trailer (video)
• New Duality ZF Screenshots
• Duality ZF FAQ Answers

External Links:

• Duality ZF on Xbox Forums (xbox.com)
• Xona Games (YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, Vimeo)
• Xbox LIVE Community Games (xbox.com, Xbox Forums)
• Imphenzia Music (creator of the Duality ZF soundtrack)
• Gameplay Reviews

About the Author:  I am Matthew Doucette of Xona Games, an award-winning, team-of-two indie studio concentrating on "intense retro" games (Xbox LIVE, PSN, WiiWare, and Windows PC). We've released Decimation X (XBLIG), a 1-4 player shmup, #1 best selling and #1 top rated XBLIG in Japan. We're working on Duality ZF (XBLA), a groundbreaking 1-4 player shmup, which placed #1 in Canada and #5 in the world in Microsoft's Dream Build Play 2010 contest. It features dual play, the ability to control two fighters at once, and a massively upgradable 32-stage spread/laser weapon system. 4 player dual play allows up to eight fighters at once.  Many of these features are never before seen shoot'em up firsts. Both games feature beautiful electronic Imphenzia soundtracks.  Help spread the word with our official dualityzf.com and decimationx.com websites.

P.S. Watch out for Score Rush (official website scorerush.com), another 1-4 player shmup. Coming soon to XBLIG.

*Shmup also known as: shoot'em up, 2D shooter, scrolling shooter, space shooter, spaceship shooter, retro shooter, etc.