Backbone's HD-enhanced port of the original Tron arcade game will join the Natsume's 2D shooter Omega Five on Xbox Live Arcade this Wednesday, January 9.

Announced for Xbox Live Arcade last May, Tron's four mini-games have been enhanced with two person online co-op and versus. Read more »

Natsume's Omega Five will be available for download through the Xbox 360's online Xbox Live Arcade next Wednesday, January 9. Publisher Hudson Soft announced the date today.

Selling for 800 Microsoft Points ($10), the wacky 2D arcade shooter features multiple characters and weapons, including a samurai and his magical attack dog. To learn more, check our Carlos Bergfeld's hands-on preview.

Known mostly in the U.S. for its American publishing activities associated with Marvelous Interactive's Harvest Moon series, Tokyo-based Natsume has a pretty impressive creative legacy as well. Though internal development at the studio has diminished in recent years, it will soon return with a vengeance only hardcore gamers can truly appreciate.

That is, the distinctly Japanese vengeance of a laser-toting thong-wearing whore-bride, a four-armed goo-shooting alien, and an attack-dog-equipped flying samurai in the studio's upcoming horizontal shoot-em-up Omega Five (X360). Read more »