I honestly have no idea what is going on in these screenshots, but apparently Xotic is a new first-person shooter/arcade hybrid that’s about to hit Xbox Live Arcade this Summer.

It’s set in a bio-organic “exotic” environment with weird guns, where the goal is to get as high a score as possible to compete on leaderboards. Shooting some plants can apparently give you chain combos, you can pick up something called “Orb Essence” and you’ll have to balance these kinds of things for getting highscores.

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XP will let you upgrade your skills and weapons, and power-ups will litter the levels for even more score-based FPS gameplay. It sounds likeBulletstormscore-based gameplay meets environment-oriented scoring meets weirdness, which is far from the worst thing to ever come to XBLA. I think I’ll wait until there is something like actual gameplay footage first.

The opening area of the Whisper mission, in a small grove.

The Divide in the Cosmodrome, where the Guardian was resurrected.

A holofoil Ribbontail, as seen in collections.

The Phoneutria Fera hand cannon, inspired by the Season of the Haunted armor set. It has a unique, galactic glow.

Three Fuses appear in a match of Apex Legends' Wild Card mode.

Mad Maggie opens a supply bin and an item with a symbol indicating infinite ammo appears.

Legends slide through a zipline in King’s Canyon in Apex Legends.

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The Yeartide Apex tex Mechanica SMG with a Holofoil glow.