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What better way to celebrate the baking weather than with a selection of equally scorching Xbox Live Arcade titles? Microsoft has just announced when we'll be enjoying 2011's Summer of Arcade games, how much they'll cost and how to get our hands on a free game.
The five games, including the hotly anticipated From Dust, will be spread out over July and August. Here's the full line-up.
Bastion
(Supergiant Games/Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment)
Release Date: 20 July
Price: 1200 Microsoft Points
From Dust
(Ubisoft Montpellier/Ubisoft)
Release Date: 27 July
Price: 1200 Microsoft Points
Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet
(Fuelcell/Microsoft Studios)
Release Date: 3 August
Price: 1200 Microsoft Points
Fruit Ninja Kinect
(Halfbrick/Microsoft Studios)
Release Date: 10 August
Price: 800 Microsoft Points
Toy Soldiers: Cold War
(Signal Studios/Microsoft Studios)
Release Date: 17 August
Price: 1200 Microsoft Points
Pick up all five games and you'll be entitled to a free copy of Crimson Alliance, worth an impressive 1200MP, for your troubles. It's a four player action RPG developed by Certain Affinity, who are currently contributing to Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary.
