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Thanks again to all that entered our X’09 Canada contest, but the lucky amongst you must rise to the surface like dumplings in a boiling pot. DaCanadian is our ‘Splosion Man winner and Aznboi90 has earned himself a Shadow Complex code. You two should keep an eye on your inbox, codes are inbound. The rest of you, check back frequently; we have contests going on all the time so there will be plenty more chances to win. Thanks to Jakenbear and JadeLIVE for the codes and the opportunity to meet so many community folk at X’09 this year.

X’09 comes once a year and is Canada’s largest Xbox gaming showcase. It’s the one venue most major publishers choose to showcase their best and brightest coming in the holiday season to the Xbox 360. Activision, Ubisoft, EA, and more were present at the event to give some hands-on time to some of this year’s most anticipated titles. The following is a recount of GeneralGames.ca’s first hands-on experience with many of these games.

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This week sees the release of Shadow Complex for the Xbox Live Arcade developed by Chair Entertainment with help from Epic Games (since it uses the Unreal Engine 3 after all. It’s been highly anticipated for a while now and is part of the much-promoted Xbox Live “Summer of Arcade” avalanche of top tier releases. Its been a relatively dry year for game releases, with downloadable games generally being the most interesting things out there as most retail titles have been waiting for Q4 or have been delayed until 2010. With such a lack of fresh meat, there’s lots of room for a game like Shadow Complex to strut it’s stuff. We’ve already seen the multi-player-only Battlefield 1943 gain huge sales in this industry climate. Now its Shadow Complex’s turn to attempt the same with a purely single player experience.

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Shadow Complex has been surrounded by much mystery since it’s unveil at E3 earlier this year. The action platformer in the vein of Castlevania and Metroid has quickly become one of the most anticipated titles to be released this summer as part of Microsoft’s Summer of Arcade promotion. With the game coming out this Wednesday on the Xbox Live Arcade a few organizations, including GeneralGames.ca have been provided access to the game for review purposes. While our review will be holding for completion for now, we’d like to share a small tidbit we found in the game’s credits. It turns out that Shadow Complex may hold more mystery still.

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