Today's Xbox LIVE Arcade includes Defense Grid: The Awakening, available for 800 Microsoft Points ($10). It's a tower defense game where you defend your resources, or "cores," from waves of alien invasions by managing and upgrading various towers. The demo (queue it up on your Xbox 360 here) includes a playable tutorial on how to use your resources through 4 different scenarios. The challenge ramps up throughout the demo. It should give you a good sampling on what to expect from the game, and will leave you wanting more. Defense Grid: The Awakening was previously released for the PC for $19.99. The game comes from independent game developer Hidden Path Entertainment and uses Emergent’s Gamebryo engine (used on games such as Oblivion, Warhammer Online, Civilization IV).

“We built Defense Grid: The Awakening with the Xbox LIVE Arcade audience in mind from the very beginning. Its unique spin on tower defense gameplay is a perfect fit, as it appeals to gamers of all skill levels, but has enough challenge modes to keep those hard-core Xbox 360 users engaged for hours” said Jeff Pobst, co-founder and CEO of Hidden Path Entertainment.

Features of the Xbox LIVE Arcade version of Defense Grid: The Awakening, as noted by Hidden Path Entertainment:

- New Borderlands mission pack, which has four new advanced levels and 12 challenge modes.
- A unique combination of fixed and open maps that encourage different strategies every time you play.
- 24 total unique maps to strategically position your towers on and prevent alien enemies from stealing your power cores.
- 100 unlockable challenge modes to extend your gameplay.
- 10 different tower types, including Infernos, Teslas, Cannons and more. Each tower can also be upgraded twice for devastating power.
- All towers with unique tradeoffs that affect ideal placement, such as line-of-sight attack or ballistic trajectory fire; a large area of effect or damage over time; and minimum and maximum ranges.
- 15 different types of enemies, each with unique capabilities and strategies
- 10 hours of story and campaign play
- Custom soundtracks and loads of achievements

Check out the demo from Xbox LIVE Arcade or purchase it here.

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