Let's face it, the food service industry does something to people. The pure inanity of it all will drive ordinary people to lash out at the innocent and do obscene things to their food. And, in rare cases, it can send someone on a blood-fueled spree of undead vengeance. At least, that's the general understanding we have of The Dishwashwer: Dead Samurai. Gamescore Blog has announced that the XBLA game is "coming soon" (that's the news in this post, lest the first few sentences threw you off). Also announced was a new mode called "Phantom Guitar," which allows a second player to plug in either a Rock Band or Guitar Hero guitar and play as, ahem, a phantom guitar which can aid the Dishwasher by damaging and killing enemies.

There is no specific date announced for the game, though the article does use the phrase "in the months to come," so we're hopeful that the game will release before the year is out.

This is an XNA game, and as XNA marketplace bundles with NXE next month, I'm reckoning this'll be a launch game for the new service. Also 'Phantom Guitar' mode looks crazy awesome!

I'm pretty sure The Dishwasher became a full XBLA titles, and not an XNA one

XNA has some extreme potential. I cannot wait.

what this person says is correct. I played it during the XNA games beta, it has achievos, so it's a full xbla title.

Indeed. I want to get my hands on a full version of Jelly Car. That game was so simple and full of awesome. Culture was pretty good as well.