MICROSOFT DATES SUMMER XBOX LIVE ARCADE RELEASES: SPLOSION MAN, TRIALS HD, SHADOW COMPLEX

A quick note to relay Microsoft’s plans for the rest of Xbox Live Arcade’s summer: following next week’s debut of the re-made Secret of Monkey Island, July 22 will see the release of the 3D remade arcade original TMNT, Turtles in Time Re-shelled, which will then be followed by Capcom’s fighter Marvel vs. Capcom 2.

August 5th will then see the release of ‘Splosion Man, above, the 2D puzzle platformer from Twisted Pixel, the studio behind ace 3D PC/XBLA puzzle game The Maw, followed then by Trials HD, the console port of Red Lynx’s surprisingly engrossing heavily physics-laden motorbike puzzler, and finally, August 19th will be the launch date for Shadow Complex, the 2.5D Unreal Engine enabled ‘Metroidvania‘-esque platformer from Undertow devs Chair Entertainment first revealed at Microsoft’s E3 conference.