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DigitalDNA has announced that CastleMiner Z has hit 1.5 million in sales on the Xbox Live Indie Games service, making it “one of the most successful indie titles of all time, let alone on the Xbox.” The figure is up from 1 million reported in September, and the firm said the original CastleMiner is “dangerously close” to 1 million in sales. Awesome news. Thanks, woe.

Meh Games has launched its twin-stick arena shooter Grid Space Shooter on the Xbox Live Indie Games service. The game offers a large variety of enemies as well as power-up options, reports Indie Games.

Grid Space Shooter is going for 80 Microsoft points or can be trialed for free and offers three ships to play with, each with its own powers and abilities as well as alternate flight modes, offering more battle options.

CastleMiner Z holds a couple of Xbox Live Indie Games records – it’s the fastest-selling release the service has ever hosted, and also the first to crack the big 1 million.

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Microsoft has restored the Xbox Live Indie Games service to its front-and-centre dashboard position.

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Microsoft has announced it’s increased the size limit for Indie titles submitted for inclusion on Xbox Live. According to a blog post from the XNA Game Studio team, XBLIG submissions to the App Hub can now be 500MB in size, compared to the previous limit of 150MB. Developers can now also apply a 80 MSP price point to any game under 150MB in size, which is three times the current limit of 50MB. Lastly, studios can now have up to 20 games through the services, where as the limit before was 10 per studio, which was up from the original eight title limit. Thanks, NeoGAF.

Minecraft clone FortressCraft has grossed $1 million in its first six months on Xbox Live Indie Games.

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Shield the Beat developer Mathieu Briau has criticised Xbox Live Indie Games for failing to follow through on its potential to promote independent games.

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Microsoft is investigating Xbox Live Indie Game rankings manipulation after suspected shenanigans last week.

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Xbox Live Indie developers would like to see Microsoft implements a better storefront on the service as well as add Achievements to indie games.

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