Poker Smash: poker meets Puzzle Fighter

It's always nice to watch new media for Xbox Live Arcade games come out of nowhere. Cruising over at GameTrailers, we uncovered a video for Poker Smash, from Void Star Creations. The game takes standard puzzle game mechanics (match tiles of the same type) and throws in a little bit of poker flavor. As in most puzzle games, the object is to match up tiles of a similar color. The twist is that each tile is in fact a poker card, and players can also create poker hands instead of merely matching colored tiles together. We don't know many more specifics other than that, though it appears online multiplayer may not be included, as the official site lists "split screen head to head" only. Poker Smash is currently slated to hit XBLA before the year is out.