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Indie Game Winter Uprising Featured on Xbox LIVE Dashboard

Wednesday, December 29, 2010
By: Matthew Doucette

The Indie Game Winter Uprising (IGWU), of which Decimation X3 is a proud member of, is now featured on the Xbox LIVE dashboard! The feature started yesterday, on December 28th, 2010, and should run an entire week. For the record, it is outside of the regular Xbox LIVE Indie Game (XBLIG) dashboard. It will be interesting to see what affect this has on the games' sales as well as XBLIG's popularity as a whole. (It appears to be on the U.S. dashboard only.)

Thanks to Seeson Mahathavorn of 360junkies.com for the screen captures! Check out their reviews of Decimation X3 and Score Rush here:

A video showcasing of the IGWU spotlight.

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About the Author: I am Matthew Doucette of Xona Games, an award-winning indie game studio that I founded with my twin brother. We make intensified arcade-style retro games. Our business, our games, our technology, and we as competitive gamers have won prestigious awards and received worldwide press. Our business has won $190,000 in contests. Our games have ranked from #1 in Canada to #1 in Japan, have become #1 best sellers in multiple countries, have won game contests, and have held 3 of the top 5 rated spots in Japan of all Xbox LIVE indie games. Our game engines have been awarded for technical excellence. And we, the developers, have placed #1 in competitive gaming competitions -- relating to the games we make. Read about our story, our awards, our games, and view our blog.