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YOU are the ninja! The worldwide gaming phenomenon Fruit Ninja has now arrived for Kinect and Halfbrick could not be prouder to bring you the first ever Xbox Live Arcade Kinect title! Your arms are now blades, and the epic battle against the world’s most delicious produce is just beginning. Fruit Ninja Kinect is our evolution of the slice-em-up genre, where we worked tirelessly to utilise next-gen power for the juiciest combat ever!

With Classic, Zen and the frenetic Arcade Mode, Fruit Ninja Kinect includes all the action you know and love with precision control -- along with special features exclusive to Kinect. With Party Mode, four players can turn a normal night into a fierce tournament -- and the new Challenge system will reveal the true masters among your friends.

The whole team at Halfbrick is incredibly excited to bring you this next step in the Fruit Ninja franchise, and it is available for download on Xbox Live Arcade right now for 800 Microsoft Points as part of the offical Summer of Arcade promotion!

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Get ready to strap on your ninja gear because Fruit Ninja Kinect is on the way to Xbox Live Arcade! With an announcement and hands-on demonstrations with media last week at E3, Fruit Ninja Kinect is already one of the most anticipated downloadable games of 2011.

FNK brings all of the action that millions of fans worldwide have been playing for over a year and takes it to the next generation using full Kinect support for slicing the world’s most perfectly delicious produce! Classic, Zen and Arcade modes are all available with online leaderboards and challenges, along with two brand new multiplayer modes exclusive to FNK.

Battle Mode pits two players head to head in a juicy melee where they must slice fruit of their own color -- but the white fruit are up for grabs and can be sliced by any player! Team Arcade is cooperative madness, featuring more fruit on-screen than any other Fruit Ninja game before.

FNK is officially part of Xbox Live’s Summer of Arcade promotion, so you can expect to see more news and announcements over the coming weeks leading up to release. Head over to the official page at Xbox.com to see all the media and marketplace content, and check out what some players had to say about their experience with the game at E3:]

NEW YORK TIMES
“I ran into this game by accident, and it provided the most fun I had in three minutes all week.”

DESTRUCTOID
“Fruit Ninja Kinect is surprisingly precise. In fact, it may be the most responsive Kinect game I’ve played to date, mirroring my actions one-to-one at a shocking smooth clip.”

CNN
“Conquering the Apple Store apparently wasn’t enough for these ninjas.”

GamePro
“I haven’t played many Kinect games that I really liked, but Fruit Ninja’s formula works incredibly will when paired up with the device, and plays like a natural party game.”

Today we can officially announce the release of the first downloadable content for our XBLA game Raskulls! Featuring a new Grand Prix and four extra characters, you can download it today for just 160 Microsoft Points – which also adds three new Achievements for 50 extra Gamerscore!

The extra Grand Prix, known as the Shiny Stone Cup, features four race levels and includes the new “Castle” environment! You can play these level both online and offline, using any of the previous characters or one of the new four:

KITTEN – A descendant from the legendary half-cat, half-skull and half-awesome Raskulls of the Faraway Mountains, Kitten is a cute yet deadly addition to the cast. Why deadly? Ask Little Billy Bobskull, the crippled boy in the Extensive Bite n’ Scratch ward at Raskulls General.

VIKING – One of King’s past rivals, Viking likes to pillage, loot and drink with the best of them. On the other hand, he’s big into haberdashery. Fine men’s suit craftsmanship does not a nice Raskull make.

SPACEMAN – Spaceman, I always wanted you to go | into space, man.

BARNEY – A Pirat minion of Captain J. Turncoat, Barney has the tendency to lose his pants and ice-cream money. As a mindless thug, he’s sub-par. As a potential hat rack or paperweight, he’s not bad at all.

Download Raskulls Reinforcements!

Raskulls is an exclusive member of the awesome Games for the Holidays promotion starting next week, December 22nd with the release of World of Keflings (followed by Raskulls on the 29th and ilomilo on January 5th). As part of this promotion, players can unlock exclusive content within each game by purchasing the other titles and unlocking an Achievement. To celebrate, we’ve teamed up with Microsoft and created this awesome trailer to show off how it all works. Enjoy!