SouthPeak Interactive has announced X-Blades, an anime style game where you control an acrobatic with a pair of large gunblades.  The game is slated for a release at the end of this year on Xbox 360, Windows PC and PS3.

The team, consisting of a large group of anime fans, chose to go with that visual style as it was the inspiration for the title.  They seek to breathe new life into the hack and slash genre by focusing not only on the character’s blade abilities, but on pistol action and acrobatic manuevers as well.  The game combines a very cinematic style with “endless high speed action”.

The first notable aspect about the heroine: at least her boobs are of a reasonable size.  The second: that’s not a thong, that’s a g-string.  I was a bit shocked to browse other available screenshots and come across this.  I have a theory that game developers aren’t actually a group of undersexed nerds, they just make female characters like this in anticipation of the inevitable cosplay that comes of it.

Feel free to discuss your feminist rage on the forums, or exchange your masculine cheers at more polygonal T&A.

- Chris Cesarano (Grohdinger)

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