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Microsoft's Games with Gold program closes out 2013 with muscly shooter Gears of War (nope, no numbers at the end of that) and co-op run-and-gunner Shoot Many Robots. That means Gold members on Xbox 360 can download Gears of War for free between the 1st and 15th of December, then they can disembark the Cole Train and start to Shoot Many Robots on December 16, which stays free until the end of the year.

Microsoft plans to continue the Games with Gold program on Xbox 360 as an "ongoing benefit," and is extending it to the Xbox One in 2014 on a monthly basis.

Demiurge Studios' Shoot Many Robots has gone mobile in an "endless gunner," with the battle against the chainsaw-wielding little jerks available now for free on Android devices. The iOS release will blast away in the "near future."

"It's a simple, pick-up-and-play kind of game with unique features never before seen in an endless runner," says Demiurge CEO Albert Reed. The game was developed in collaboration with Owlchemy Labs (Snuggle Truck, Jack Lumber).

Shoot Many Robots launched on consoles last year, finding a wider audience when it pulled the trigger on a Steam release.

#shootmanyrobots It looks like Shoot Many Robots, Demiurge Studios' straightforwardly titled, Metal Slug-like robot slaughterfest, has finally made its way to mobile devices. Well, Android devices, at least—though an iOS version is on its way. Owlchemy Labs, the folks behind 2011's cuddly physics-based game Snuggle Truck, also helped Demiurge out with the new title's development. Press release follows: More »

Self-explanatory action game Shoot Many Robots is branching out. Developer Demiurge Studios has announced Shoot Many Robots: Arena Kings, a brand new free-to-play title for PC. Arena Kings is a competitive 2D shooter, casting players as kings that "murder each other to collect their crowns, and flush them down a teleporting golden toilet."

Players will be able to customize their characters with the same kinds of gear found in the original Shoot Many Robots, and more is on the way. While the official release date is still under wraps, interested players can sign up for the closed beta here. Check out a pair of screens - sans any robots that we can see - in the gallery below.

The soundtrack for Shoot Many Robots is a blues-infused rock compilation that sets the perfect tone for riding off into the desert sunset, entering a room dramatically, driving around the city at night with your sunglasses on and, yes, shooting many robots.

This melodic amalgamation was thrown together by Fez composer Disasterpeace (Rich Vreeland), and the whole album is available now on Bandcamp for $5.

Give it a listen before you buy right here, and all the best of luck with those pesky robots. We hear there's a lot of them.

Update notes:

• Saves work reliably if you have a Windows profile names that contains Unicode characters
  
• Fix for a crash when the host quits while a client has a quit confirmation dialog up
  
• Fix for a crash when the host toggles vertical sync during a multiplayer match
  
• Reduced brogue duration for the Souvenir Tam O'Shanter
  
• smrconfig.ini file is written right away when the game launches, so that you can manually edit settings before you've changed them from the defaults
  
• Additional graphics options exposed in smrconfig.ini, so that you can disable them if you have a lower-spec machine:
  
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  • Fog
    
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Shoot Many Robots is Now Available on Steam!

Shoot Many Robots is a 4-player co-op run-n-gun action shooter that throws you into a tidal wave of degenerate robots with an array of weaponry that would make any shooter enthusiast proud. Save when you pick up the 4-pack to play with your friends!

Players take control of P. Walter Tugnut (The P stands for Pickles), a hillbilly who stockpiles guns, ammo, and beer in his dilapidated RV awaiting the inevitable robot apocalypse. When the abandoned factory in the distance begins producing robots on its own, Walter sets off in his RV on a robot-killing rampage, hoping to save humanity from an onslaught of robot hordes.

Shoot Many Robots, Ubisoft’s co-op side-scrolling shooter, has a PC release date for Steam. The 6th April. It’s been out on console downloads for a while now, and has garnered an extremely confusing mix of reviews. The super-angry Destructoid loved it with an 8, while the pathologically generous IGN broke their score machine by going as low as 4.5. So I don’t know what to think. About anything. Pre-ordering the game will score you a few bonuses. Get three copies and they’ll throw in a fourth, along with some aesthetic Valve-themed changes for the game – the likes of Gordon Freeman as a playable character, or Portal turrets as enemies, along with some TF2 shenanigans.

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Co-op RPG shooter Shoot Many Robots is out for PC on 6th April, confirms Ubisoft...

I'm not going to tell you what Ryan and Vinny do in this video, but you shouldn't watch it if you're a robot.

If the title of Shoot Many Robots didn't make it expressly clear what the point of the game is, Demiurge has provided a video and some screens for the game's launch that will help those of you still not catching on. Let us know if you still have any questions.

Given that "shoot" is the first word of Shoot Many Robots' title, it should be safe to assume that the 2.5D side-scroller has some reliable pew-pew. Well, you know what they say about assuming: You and I get stuck playing mindless junk like this...

Available tomorrow on PSN, Shoot Many Robots is an action game with a twist: You can play with up to four people cooperatively online. If you don’t already have an excuse to make three friends and kill some robots, we’ve provided five:

More, More, More

It’s a simple formula. As you add more players to Shoot Many Robots, you’ll encounter more robots, more explosions, and more chaos. Playing with co-op partners increases the number of robots in each level which means more things to kill…and more ways to kill them. And more dead robots means more Nut pickups, which enable you to buy new guns and gear. All of the randomly dropping items like powerups and loot also drop more frequently. In co-op, everything is just more fun.

Co-opetition

At the end of each mission, the players with the highest kill counts are rewarded with more Nuts. This means you must work cooperatively to complete a mission, while also competing for the most kills – hence, “co-opetition.”

Pick-Me-Ups

In co-op, you can revive your partners if they are downed. Having squadmates to keep each other alive will help you get through the more challenging robot battles.

Tutu Strategy

You can equip anything from a tutu to a shark fin, jetpack, tighty whities, and a grenade launcher (to name a few of the hundreds of items available). Each item affects your character’s stats differently, but the real strategic fun starts when you learn to coordinate your getup to complement your squadmates. Crafty teams will coordinate lethal weapon combos like “fire and ice,” where one player slows the robots with a freeze ray while the other annihilates them with a flamethrower (and a raccoon hat that boosts critical hit chance).

Drinking Games

The best reason to play with friends is for the games you can make up outside of Shoot Many Robots. Every time you have to drink to gain health in-game, you have to drink in real life. The player with the lowest kill count at the end of each mission has to wear a tutu… in real life. Get creative, and have fun killing robots with your friends!

When you're as awesome as this guy, you don't need accuracy.

And no writing serial numbers on your hand!

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Even if you were on the fence about Demiurge's upcoming Shoot Many Robots, Penny Arcade's Fruit F**ker (a collectible headpiece in the game) is here to help make up your mind. Oh, did we say "make up"? We meant "extract the nutrient-rich liquids from."

Ubisoft said today it will publish Shoot Many Robots, a downloadable title from indie developer Demiurge Studios...

Demiurge Studios asked fans to "Design Many Robots," and they've done just that, submitting potential designs for a new enemy robot to be added to an upcoming DLC expansion. Demiurge has now narrowed down the submissions from "many" to "five," and posted the five finalists for voting.

Browse through the finalists in our gallery, and decide whether "Chopter," "K.R.I.B.," "Trikey," "J0TN4R," or "Gnash Britches" would be the ideal robot to shoot. Then, head to Demiurge's site and vote for one robot. The winning designer won't just contribute to the game, but will get a trip to Boston "to help [Demiurge] bring their design to life!"

Get all the details on this downloadable shoot-a-thon in our first-look interview from GDC 2011 with Demiurge Studios' Studio Director Albert Reed!

Polish your skills and work together to bring the hurt back to the machines!

Get ready to junk some toasters with this walkthrough from PAX East 2011 featuring commentary by Lead Designer Josh Glavine.

Shoot Many Robots reminds me of classic 2D shooter Metal Slug, but with the addition of leveling and upgrade systems. Or it could be like a linear, 2D version of Borderlands -- beyond exhibiting a similar color palette, SMR's constantly popping out XP numbers and loot notices. Or maybe it's more like Contra, given the steady flood of enemies and enormous mini-bosses.

Okay, let's just call it a mixture of all those things, melded with its own southern-baked main character -- the gaming equivalent of Zombieland's Tallahassee character. That all makes SMR sound pretty derivative -- which it certainly is, to an extent -- but the game's developers show a ton of heart going into the project. Also, tutus.

Slide down the pipes and into battle in this cam gameplay from PAX East 2011.

Shoot Many Robots is Boston-based Demiurge Studios' first original game, and my hands-on with it at GDC was the first time that anyone at the developer ever gave a press demo. Studio head Albert Reed was, unsurprisingly, excited to delve into the studio's origins. "We got our start doing mods for Unreal Tournament. It was me and two other college buddies doing mods in the frickin' computer cluster at Carnegie Mellon. I'm not kidding!" Reed told me before showing off Too Many Robots last week. "Then one thing lead to another and those companies that were licensing Unreal Engine started hiring us," Reed added humbly.

It turns out that the folks hiring Demiurge were developers like Gearbox Software, Irrational Games, BioWare, and Harmonix. "We did some work on the first level -- the lighthouse and that sort of descent into Rapture," Reed told me, casually explaining that his studio clandestinely assisted with one of gaming's most iconic openings: the beginning of BioShock.

Demiurge's Shoot Many Robots is the latest to join a growing trend in games: adding player content to the final product. The "Design Many Robots" contest asks fans to submit original robot designs. The winning entrants will be flown to Boston to visit Demiurge and see their creations added to the game's first expansion.

The deadline for submissions is April 4th, and is restricted to US residents only. "Blame the lawyers! They made us do it!," Demiurge's Justin Lockey noted. Alright then, done. Blamed.

Sometimes you have to build something before you can destroy it! The minds at Demiurge devise a contest to have user-made robots featured in the game's first downloadable content!

Aspiring designers have a chance for their creation to be obliterated in 'Shoot Many Robots' including a trip to Boston to watch their creation come to life.

Plan ahead for nights of senseless shooting, explosions and toaster violence with Shoot Many Robots.