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Microsoft has updated it offerings coming to XBL Marketplace, and it kicks off today with deals on PopCap games, a Sega Publisher Sale, and a Black Ops Sale and more. Full update below.

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Sony has been rattling the indie klaxon recently, and has pledged a big indie push on PS4, PS3, PS Vita and PS Mobile. Here’s some indie games heading to Vita that you might not be aware of yet.

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Australia indie Halfbrick is throwing potentially the thriftiest iOS store promotion ever, with a selection of excellent iOS titles available for absolutely zero dollars. For the privilege of parting with exactly no cash, you can grab Age of Zombies, Age of Zombies: Anniversary, Blast Off, Fruit Ninja, Fruit Ninja HD, Fruit Ninja: Puss in Boots, Fruit Ninja: Puss in Boots HD, and Jetpack Joyride, directly from the App Store. The “sale” is for one day only, but we don’t know when it kicked off so move fast.

Ape Entertainment has signed a deal with Fruit Ninja developer, Halfbrick Studios, to create a series of comics and graphic novels based on the popular fruit slicing app.

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Halfbrick’s announced the two-year anniversary of Fruit Ninja, with other stats to celebrate the anniversary.

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A senior advisor has described David Cameron as spending a “crazy, scary amount of time playing Fruit Ninja on his iPad,” according to a rather scathing column on the economy in The Telegraph.

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Mobile slice-’em-up Fruit Ninja is turning two, and to celebrate, Halfbrick has planned a significant free content update.

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Halfbrick has noted massive growth for Jetpack Joyride since making the iOS game free late last year.

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If you’re still addicted to slicing up all manner of colorful produce, then you’ll want to swing on over to Xbox Live to pick up your free Fruit Ninja Kinect Christmas DLC.

The content pack expands Halfbrick’s ultra-popular opus by adding in the ability to turn your body into something like a snowglobe, as well as other holiday-themed surprises like a candy-cane slicing blade. It’s a shame there’s not more gameplay content, but you can’t argue with free.

Via Destructoid.

“We could knock out a Fruit Ninja 2 in a couple of months and it would probably sell gangbusters, but we wouldn’t be satisfied with that. We put a lot of pressure on ourselves. Even when we were working on licensed titles we were determined to make the best games we could possibly make. We want to make really fantastic games and keep building Halfbrick as a company that people identify as making quality, interesting, unique titles.”

– Halfbrick’s Luke Muscat, speaking to Kotaku. Fruit Ninja is available for iOS, Kinect, Windows Phone 7, and is part of the Android Marketplace’s rotating selection of 10 cent apps today, so no excuses.

Fruit Ninja developer Halfbrick and ToyFoundry have joined forces to deliver a range of plushies based on the Kinect and iOS game about dismembering innocent foodstuffs. Now you can own your very own grinning watermelon – although cutting it in half with your decorative tanto is probably not the best plan. Plushies start from AUD $14.99 and ship worldwide. Hit up the brand new Fruit Ninja store for more information.

NSW deputy premier Andrew Stoner has announced a new Fruit Ninja game, outlining a number of gameplay details not yet confirmed by developer Halfbrick.

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Australian band, Hey Geronimo, has recreated several popular iOS games for its latest music video. Taking in the likes of Fruit Ninja, Cut the Rope, Flight Control and, of course, those ubiquitous Angry Birds, it’s cute, it’s goofy, and it’s through the break.

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A report by market intelligence firm Parks Associates has said a huge rise in mobile gaming has taken place since 2007.

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Korea’s Games Rating Board is so leaky, the Jumblies would go to sea in it. Its latest unannounced listing is Fruit Ninja Kinect, something we fully support.

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If we tried to write up all the little stories, all we’d do is write all day. What?

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It’s the Presidents Day weekend. Catch up on all the little bits before you go large with the holiday.

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Independent Australian developer Halfbrick has already seen significant success on multiple platforms with its range of variously sized downloadable titles. Maybe you’ve heard of one of them; Steve Ballmer’s CES 2011 keynote featured three mentions and two videos of the addictive, best-selling Fruit Ninja.

We spoke to Marketing Director Phil Larsen on working with Microsoft, developing for Windows Phone 7, and the sudden highlighting of a little game about cutting up healthy treats.

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