Xbox Live's Major Nelson has revealed that the sidescrolling, brawler/shooter/knife-in-the-facer XBLA title Shank is this week's Xbox Live Deal of the Week.

Starting today, Shank is available for 800MS Points ($10), a savings of 33% off its original price of 1200MS Points ($15). Like all other Xbox Live weekly deals, the offer is only available to Xbox Live Gold members. Read more »

Electronic Arts has released Shank and DeathSpank, previously only available on the PS3 and Xbox 360, on the PC.

Both were released through the EA Partners publishing program. Shank was developed by Klei Entertainment and DeathSpank was created by Hothead Games.The games are now available through Steam and support Steamworks features like Achievements, Steam Cloud, and Leaderboards. Like the console versions, both titles support local-only co-op. Read more »

Shacknews receives a slew of new screenshots and trailers for upcoming games everyday. The most anticipated titles receive their own post, because we know you're eager to see that content. For the rest, we have the Daily Filter, a place to feature all of the media we add to our enormous database on a daily basis.

Today's Filter includes media for Red Dead Redemption, Shank, Lucha Libre AAA Heroes of the Ring, DC Universe Online, Mythos, WRC: FIA World Rally Championship 2010, Emergency 2012, Fighters Uncaged, Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions, Super Scribblenauts, Naruto Shippuden: Naruto vs. Sasuke, Just Dance 2, and Naruto Shippuden: Dragon Blade Chronicles. Read more »

PC gamers left out when Hothead's humorous action RPG Deathspank debuted on the Xbox 360 and PS3 earlier this year, your calls have been heard. Today the developer revealed the first game in the series will arrive for the PC on October 26 for $14.99.

Pre-ordering the game on Steam will get 10% knocked off that price, bringing it down to $13.49. Or, if you're in a bargaining sort of mood, there's the cleverly named 'Shank and Spank' bundle--which pairs DeathSpank with Klei Entertainment's Shank. Steam pre-orders for the bundle brings the combined price down 15% ($25.48 total). A Mac OSX version of Deathspank is also in the works but no release date for it was provided. Read more »

Forecasting & Analyzing Digital Entertainment (FADE) is reporting that Microsoft's Xbox Live Arcade enjoyed its best month to date in August, built on the strength of the Summer of Arcade promotion.

According to the report, Microsoft brought in $17.5 million in August 2010 over $16.5 million in August 2009, which was the second year of the Summer of Arcade promotion. The report presents a top 10 list of games sold, ranked by revenue generated, and includes the total number of copies purchased. Note that some titles were not included in the Summer of Arcade promotion or were released before August. Read more »

With Metroid Other M and Halo: Reach to open get Whatcha' Been Playing? you know you're in for a big show, and that's only the beginning. Garnett, Brian and Jeff also work Shank and Elemental into the conversation. Cannata-ford includes a game Garnett declares as one of the most pure fun plays he's had all year. The Warning begins with your stories of how gaming figures in your circles and later hits on whether trailers give up too much of the games they seek to promote. And in the Front Page, Brian brings the word on Torchlight's console plans, Gamescom awards, and more.

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Klei Entertainment's recently released Shank is having a bit of a cutscene issue on older-model Xbox 360 consoles, reports the game's official site.

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Xbox Live's Major Nelson has released the Live Marketplace content schedule for the remainder of August.

Although the dates and prices have previously been reported, it's a good reminder that Shank and Dead Rising 2: Case Zero are launching this month alongside the Xbox 360 version of Scott Pilgrim vs. The World. Hopefully you've still got a few Microsoft Space Dollars saved up after the pricey 2010 Summer of Arcade promotion. Read more »

Shacknews receives a slew of new screenshots and trailers for upcoming games everyday. The most anticipated titles receive their own post, because we know you're eager to see that content. For the rest, we have the Daily Filter, a place to feature all of the media we add to our enormous database on a daily basis.

Today's Daily Filter features the "launch" trailer for Scott Pilgrim vs. The World, a dev diary with an insane amount of hoodies for Assassin's Creed Brotherhood, a "combo" trailer for the upcoming downloadable title Shank, a trailer featuring the upcoming DLC "The Golems of Amgarrak" for Dragon Age: Origins, a video for Naughty Bear announcing upcoming (and free) DLC, and additional videos for Star Wars: Clone Wars Adventures, the newest EverQuest 2 expansion Destiny of Velious, the PSN-exclusive Top Gun and Tales of Cosmos. Read more »

[Update: 4:35pm] According to the official Shank website, the PC version of Shank is still in development and will arrive in Fall 2010. As for the game's newly revealed co-op "mission," the blog mentions that Shank actually includes a "local co-op campaign." The co-op will be separate from the original game and tell the backstory of Shank.

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Klei Enteratinment's exceedingly awesome side-scrolling stabber-shooter Shank has long carried a summer release, and with that window approaching, the developer has gotten a bit more specific as to when the downloadable tale of stylish revenge--coming to PC, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360--will be exacted.

"Late summer," Klei co-founder and Shank co-creator Jamie Cheng told us when asked about its release window during E3 2010. "We're just finishing up the game now. I can't really give a more firm date [as that depends on testing and certification.]" Read more »

With E3 set to kick off next week, early trailers are always welcome. As you go into the weekend, watch this awesome trailer for Klei Entertainment and EA Partner's Shank.

The game, set in a "stylized, modern-Western setting... tells a classic betrayal story directed through a sophisticated cinematic lens, with addictive action gameplay found in classic 2D side-scrolling games." The story is being written by Marianne Krawczyk, who wrote the God of War games. Read more »

The story of Klei Entertainment's stylish side-scrolling action game Shank is being written by Marianne Krawczyk--a video game veteran who wrote God of War, God of War II, God of War: Chains of Olypmus and God of War III--the developer announced today.

"Krawczyk is lending her expertise in crafting rich, well-developed characters for Shank's tale of revenge," read the press release, with Read more »

Shank developer Klei Entertainment has released a new trailer for its downloadable side-scrolling brawler, following the recent news that EA Partners will be publishing it.

Shank's PC, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 release is scheduled for this summer.

Having helped distribute such externally-developed retail titles as Rock Band and Left 4 Dead, Electronic Arts' publishing division EA Partners is now expanding to the digital download market with Klei's Shank and Hothead's action-RPG DeathSpank.