Death By Cube, Vandal Hearts on XBLA tomorrow; Mass Effect DLC discounted @ Gaming Target

Written by John Scalzo on January 19, 2010

News: Blood splattered cubes in a twin stick shooter. Brilliant!

Microsoft has announced that Death By Cube and Vandal Hearts: Flames of Judgment will be added to the Xbox Live Arcade tomorrow.

Vandal Hearts: Flames of Judgment is a prequel to Konami PSone RPG Vandal Hearts and will be available for 1200 Microsoft Points ($15). On the other hand, Death By Cube is a twin stick shooter from Square Enix that serves as something of a spiritual brother to Geometry Wars. Except this time, all of the enemies are cube-shaped and they explode in a shower of blood. Oh yeah!

The company has also revealed that the downloadable expansions to Mass Effect will be this week's Xbox Live Deal of the Week. Normally priced at 400 Microsoft Points ($5), the Bring Down the Sky and Pinnacle Station packs can be downloaded from now until Sunday, January 24 for 240 Microsoft Points ($3).

A rather timely Deal of the Week considering Mass Effect 2 is going to be released next week.

More information on Death By Cube and Vandal Hearts: Flame of Judgment can be found right here:

Death By Cube
Developer: Premium Agency
Publisher: Square Enix
Death By Cube is an exhilarating action game in which you must take out endless hordes of enemies. Leo is a robot, one who awakes to find that he has lost his memory. All he knows is that he must reboot the heroine robot, so he sets forth on a mission hoping to regain his memory. To his surprise, he finds the world is now filled with battalions of enemy robots, drenched in bright red oil, and shooting bullets every direction.

Vandal Hearts: Flames of Judgment
Developer: Hijinx Studios
Publisher: Konami
Konami's legendary tactical role-playing game (RPG) series returns with Vandal Hearts: Flames of Judgment on Xbox Live Arcade! On the continent of Sostegaria, two rival kingdoms stand on the brink of war. Caught in the tide of battle is young orphan Tobias Martin. Driven to defend his homeland, and to avenge those already fallen, Tobias enlists with his comrades to fight for peace. But all is not what it seems, and they face a threat far deadlierЧand closerЧthan they know.