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This is it kids, your very last chance to win Commanders: Attack of the Genos from X3F. The giveaway ends a mere two hours from the time of this posting, so hop to it already! What's that you say? You don't know how to enter? Well shucks, it's easy! All you have to do is head over to the official giveaway post and follow the directions. See? Easy. Go get it done so all of your turn based dreams can come true.

Hey fanboys, don't forget that you still have time to win a download code for Commanders: Attack of the Genos. The giveaway ends tomorrow, but you can enter once a day, so thats (doing the math ...) two more chances to win. If you haven't already, head over to the official giveaway post and submit your entry. Don't forget to leave one tomorrow too in order to maximize your chances of winning.

Now that our Qee extravaganza has come to a close, it's time for new giveaway. This week we're giving away Commanders: Attack of the Genos, one of the only turn based strategy games on Xbox Live Arcade, and a pretty good one to boot. Not only are we giving it away, but we're giving away six copies. Even better than that we're pleased to announce that this is our first giveaway that is open to both the U.S. and Canada. That's right, you lucky northern neighbors, you can finally get in on the Fanswag action. Follow the directions below and you could be a winner.

• Let's say life is a turn based strategy game. Leave a comment telling us what you would do on your next turn. You can leave one comment per calendar day (Eastern Time).
  
• Be sure you only leave one comment per day. Posters of multiple comments during the same day will be disqualified. We'll accept entries until Friday, March 14, 12:00pm Noon, Eastern Time. You must be at least 18 years old to enter. This giveaway is open only to residents of the U.S. and Canada (excluding Quebec).
  
• On Friday, we'll pick six winners via a random drawing
• Six winners will each receive a download code for Commanders: Attack of the Genos, worth $10 each
• The complete rules can be found here.

We love Wednesdays. Before Xbox Live Arcade came along, Wednesday was just one day closer to Friday, but now, it's a reason to celebrate ... most of the time anyway. This week we've got two new games to look forward to, Commanders: Attack of Genos and Discs of Tron. Commanders helps fill out the underrepresented turn based strategy genre on XBLA, while Discs of Tron helps fill out the ... um ... Frisbee battle genre. We're particularly anxious to give Commanders a try -- we loves us some turn based strategy -- and you can expect a full report once we do. Oh, and a note to whoever currently owns the license to X-COM, get that game on XBLA, now.

Update: Oh, you might want to know that Disc of Tron costs 400 MS Points and Commanders will set you back 800 MS Points.

Having confirmed that Commanders: Attack of Genos would debut on Xbox Live Arcade alongside Discs of Tron this week, we can now bring you brand new images of the title. Having scrutinized the screens, we can say that the comparisons to Nintendo's Advance Wars series certainly seem valid. Lest you haven't played Advance Wars, that's a good thing. If the gameplay hold up to the level of the visuals, we should be in for quite a treat.

Discs of Tron won't be the only Live Arcade game to hit in time for Valentines Day. This Wednesday, Feb 13 will see the release of Commanders: Attack of Genos, a turn-based tactical game similar to Advance Wars. Like Advance Wars, Commanders goes out of it's way to look friendly and accessible, sporting red and blue less-than-realistically modeled units, a grid-based system of movement, and tactical-turn-based gameplay. To add even more to the list of Advance Wars similarities, the game features "Commanders" who have "powers" both active and passive. Even with all these similarities to a DS game, Commanders manages to give great reasons to download, with everything from online play with a much more robust community, to the graphics and possibilities of future content.

Even the unit choices and relationships are similar to the Advance Wars games. There are a total of 16 units with everything from the most basic of infantry to things like tanks and artillery, with alien weapons possibly available (if the screens are to be believed). The unit movement and attack abilities are quite different from Advance Wars however, the actions that you can give your units are based on action points, which are taken away when a unit moves or attacks, allowing for the possibility of moving and attacking, which then opens up a whole new side of the game's turn-based formula. With the turn-based-strategy genre (almost) completely open on XBLA, Commanders looks poised to fill the niche and hopefully bring the genre to a new audience.