First Look: Crypt of the Serpent King

Crypt of the Serpent King, developed by RenderCode Games, is a medieval first-person hack'n'slash dungeon crawler. Explore randomly generated dungeons. Level up your character and fight goblins, orcs, skeletons, giant spiders and all sorts of underworld creatures using melee and ranged weapons. Hidden treasures await all those who dare to enter...

Features:
Explore large, randomly generated dungeons
Fight goblins, orcs, skeletons, giant spiders and all sorts of underworld creatures
Wield an array of melee and ranged weapons
Jump over lava pits and spike traps
Level up your character's abilities
Choose between 3 levels of difficulty, from casual to hardcore

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Crypt of the Serpent King releases on the Xbox Store on December 21st for $2.99

For more information on Crypt of the Serpent King, check out the official website: http://www.rendercodegames.com/

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First Look: Boom Ball 2 for Kinect

Boom Ball 2 for Kinect, developed by Virtual Air Guitar Company, is a full-body Kinect game that mixes tennis, breakout and gratuitous explosions.

Features:
- Throw balls, smash huge stacks of cubes!
- 2-player co-op - bring friends or family!
- Cubes, big bonuses and manic multiball mayhem!
- 50 brand-new levels!
- 5 beautiful locations: Tropical Paradise, Snowy Mountain, Crystal Caves, Cloud City and Space!
- Every level can be played with 1 or 2 players!

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Boom Ball 2 releases on the Xbox Store on December 21st for $9.99

For more information on Boom Ball 2, check out the official website: http://boomballgame.com/bb2

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First Look: Feist

Feist, developed by Bits and Beasts, is an beautiful, poetic, action packed game set in an enchanting and spooky atmosphere. The game tells the story a a small creature trying to survive in a mysterious hostile forest. You take role of the creature trying to survive puzzles in a 2D side-scrolling platforming adventure. Follow strange beasts through the lonely forests, hazardous mountains, dark caves, and glowing swamps. Watch out for dangerous creatures that react to your movements and decisions, and cleverly concealed traps that will test your ability to survive.

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Feist releases on the Xbox Store on December 13th for $14.99

For more information on Feist, check out the official website: https://playfeist.net/

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First Look: Bastion

Bastion, developed by Supergiant Games, is an action role-playing experience that redefines storytelling in games, with a reactive narrator who marks your every move. Explore more than 40 lush hand-painted environments as you discover the secrets of the Calamity, a surreal catastrophe that shattered the world to pieces. Wield a huge arsenal of upgradeable weapons and battle savage beasts adapted to their new habitat. Finish the main story to unlock the New Game Plus mode and continue your journey!

Features:
- Stunning hand-painted artwork in full 1080p resolution
- Critically-acclaimed original music score
- Hours of reactive narration delivers a deep story
- Action-packed combat rewards playing with finesse
- 10+ unique upgradeable weapons
- 6 powerful Bastion structures to be discovered
- 'New Game Plus' mode unlocked after finishing the story
- The Stranger’s Dream Narrative
- Score Attack Mode
- No-Sweat Mode

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Bastion releases on the Xbox Store on December 15th for $14.99

For more information on Bastion, check out the official website: https://www.supergiantgames.com/games/bastion/

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First Look: Bridge Constructor Stunts

Bridge Constructor Stunts, developed by Headup Games, is a bridge building simulation game where you build bridges and perform stunts. Build imposing ramps and loops to reach your goal in the diverse stages. But building structures alone isn't enough this time: you sit behind the wheel of the vehicles yourself and have to maneuver them skillfully to the goal. Collect stars, complete daredevil jumps, flips and spectacular stunts, leaving behind a trail of destruction across the entire level to beat the high score. But you can only do all that with perfectly constructed bridges and ramps.

Features:
- The latest instalment in the internationally successful Bridge Constructor series!
- Improved and simplified Construction Mode
- Build ramps and drive vehicles across them yourself
- Diverse level with different objectives: collect stars, score target, reach the goal…
- Delivery vans and dump trucks with cargo that wreaks havoc when coming loose, but is also useful to help you collect items
- Various building materials
- Spectacular stunts and rampages of destruction
- Replay feature

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Bridge Constructor Stunts releases on the Xbox Store on December 16th for $9.99

For more information on Bridge Constructor Stunts, check out the official website: http://www.bridgeconstructor.com/

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Announcing Our Official Beam Channel

Team XBLN would like to announce our official Beam Channel! This channel will replace our current Twitch channel in the future as we migrate away from Twitch. When the time comes, we will have another announcement on when we will move to Beam fulltime. For now you can still enjoy our stream from twitch.tv/xboxlivenetwork.

Follow us at https://beam.pro/teamxbln today!

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First Look: Wand Wars

Wand Wars, developed by Moonradish Games, is an action/arena games that has epic stages, colourful characters and quirky powerups generate competitive gameplay that is incredibly fun to participate in and spectate. Try to control a powerful magical sphere that bounces around the arena, increasing in speed and size over time.

Features:
- Local multiplayer (up to 4 players)
- 2 singleplayer modes - story mode and the trials
- 5 play modes: Arcane Arena, Team Arena, Merlinball, Hexout, Team Hexout
- Game changing arenas, powerups and spells - Unlock content with XP
- Beautiful pixel art graphics with a modern twist
- Original soundtrack full of magic and wub

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Wand Wars releases on the Xbox Store on December 6th

For more information on Wand Wars, check out the official website: http://wandwars.com/

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First Look: Furi

Furi, developed by The Game Bakers, is an action, ultra-responsive, fast-paced sword fighting and dual-stick shooting game. Fight your way free in our frenzied all-boss fighter, and discover what’s waiting behind the last gate. Furi is all about the tension of one-on-one fights against deadly adversaries. It’s an intense, ultra-responsive game with a unique mix of fast-paced sword fighting and dual-stick shooting. Each of the formidable guardians —designed by Afro Samurai creator Takashi Okazaki— has a unique and surprising combat style that requires focus and skill to defeat.

Features:
- You can slash with your sword, shoot with your gun, dodge and parry
- You can also charge the slash attack, the gun shot and the dodge
- There’s no limit to how much you can improve, it’s simple and deep
- The challenges are based on a simple formula: get warned – react – punish
- The depth comes from the differences between the guardians. It’s about how you play a few moves differently to beat a different opponent
- Default difficulty is Furi mode. Beat the game in Furi, and you’ll unlock Furier (hardcore). Beat it in Furier, you’ll unlock a Speedrun mode. There is also an easier mode(which will disable achievements)

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Furi releases on the Xbox Store on December 9th for $19.99

For more information on Furi, check out the official website: http://www.furigame.com/

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