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Halo: Spartan Assault drops tomorrow on Xbox 360
343 Industries and Vanguard Entertainment's twin-stick shooter spinoff Halo: Spartan Assault will launch as a downloadable game for the Xbox 360 tomorrow, following up on previous releases for the Xbox One, Windows 8, and Windows Phone. Played from an overhead perspective, Spartan Assault features an array of missions that players can tackle alone or with friends in an online co-op mode. The Xbox 360 version of Spartan Assault is bundled with the "Operation Hydra" expansion, which adds new weapons and an additional five levels on top of the game's 25 campaign missions. The Xbox 360 version of Halo: Spartan Assault will be priced at $14.99 when it hits the Xbox Live Marketplace tomorrow. Players who purchased the Windows 8 or Windows Phone versions of the game before December 15 last year can get the Xbox 360 edition at a discounted rate of $4.99.
Gatling Gears out on XBLA and PSN this May
Though the trailer for Vanguard's twin stick shooter Gatling Gears is too brief to contain much visual meat, there's one announcement that makes it worth viewing. As revealed in the video (posted just after the jump!), the game's due out on XBLA May 11, and PSN May 18.
Gatling Gears has, like, so many missiles
Giant bosses, bright explosions, and mech battles from an isometric perspective -- the newest trailer for digital title Gatling Gears is rife with all three. Also, big bolded letters.
Gatling Gears deploys fresh screens for combat
EA isn't prepared to reveal much on the upcoming Vanguard Entertainment game, Gatling Gears, but thankfully saw fit to provide us a sneak peak through a pair of new screens. Check 'em out in our gallery below -- it follows the art style of Greed Corp. just, you know, with less hexagons.
Gatling Gears, a Greed Corp followup from EA Partners and Guerrilla co-founders
Well, that didn't take long. Less than two months after announcing their new studio, Vanguard Entertainment, Guerrilla Games cofounders Martin de Ronde and Michiel Mol have announced their first project, Gatling Gears, to be published by EA Partners. A followup to this year's downloadable Greed Corp, Gatling Gears is "set within the same Mistbound universe featuring signature elements like collapsing land, walker units and warring factions, but now with twin-stick shooter controls and a new hero, Max Brawley." Vanguard was formed by combining the duo's Karami studio with Greed Corp-developer W!Games. And like Greed Corp, Gatling Gears will be coming to three platforms: Xbox Live Arcade, PlayStation Network, and PC. With a Spring 2011 release planned, it shouldn't be long until we hear more about this particular Gears (the other one got delayed, remember?). In the meantime, you'll have to take what you can get: the postage stamp-sized image above that we nicked from Vanguard's humble website.
Guerrilla co-founders form Vanguard Entertainment
The original co-founders of Killzone developer Guerrilla Games, Martin de Ronde (pictured above) and Michiel Mol, have founded a new studio named Vanguard Entertainment. The new company combines the duo's current online dev house, Karami, with Greed Corp developer W!Games and will focus on taking "the fundamental mechanics of the fast growing market of PC online games and applying them to products for consoles and other premium platforms." That idea's got promise, especially coming from experienced industry pros like de Ronde and Mol. However, we think it goes without saying that if we ever log into Xbox Live and there's 30 Mafia Wars requests waiting for us, we're going to quit playing video games forever. [Image credit: Gamedev.net]
