“What the heck’s a Robo-Shambo?!” you ask? Nooooo, it’s not some sort of newfangled “European-style” late-night infomercial room cleaning device (“This is Vince for Robo Shambo!”), nor is it a wacky YouTube mash up of RoboCop and Rambo (although, that would be pretty darn hilarious seeing a metal-clad Stallone clanking around blowing holes in evil, evil men with .20 caliber rounds… “Adriaaaaaaaaaan!!!”).

Robo-Shambo is in fact, a game project by GearSphere, a small team of 17 young programmers and artists up at the Art Institute of Vancouver. The game is a a third person six-player LAN shooter (set for release on September 14, 2009) coded using Microsoft’s XNA Framework, which could mean a potential Xbox LIVE release down the road. And all this time you probably thought all they did in up in Vancouver was watch hockey, be Canadian and get free health care…

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