Microsoft has announced that this Wednesday's regularly-scheduled Xbox Live Arcade update will see PomPom Games'
Mutant Storm Empire, a 16-level sci-fi shooter with offline co-op and multiplayer Live support for two players.
Microsoft also confirmed several XBLA titles expected "in the coming weeks," including Metanet Software's
N+, which
won the Audience Choice Award in the 2005 Independent Games Festival,
originally announced for XBLA early this year.
Also on the slate are two
previously-announced THQ games, free-fall alien destruction title
Screwjumper and the cartoon-themed
SpongeBob SquarePants: Underpants Slam, both expected for November release.
Other titles soon to hit XBLA include Activision's
Shrek-n-Roll puzzler, Sierra Online's
Switchball, Chair Entertainment's action shooter
Undertow, and InterServ's
Word Puzzle, a word-search game based on the pen-and-paper original.