If you've had your eye on the Twisted Pixel bundle that launched last month, you'd best pick it up sooner than later. Today is the last day to get it on the cheap, after which the price is going up three-fold.
Twisted Pixel has compiled four of its Xbox Live Arcade games into a single bundle on the cheap. For $10 (800 MSP), you can grab The Maw, Comic Jumper, Splosion Man and Ms. Splosion Man.
Ms Splosion Man has sploded her way onto iOS today, and a PC version is set to follow next week. The iOS version is available on the iOS and iPad for $2.99, and comes with a few new additions from the Xbox Live Arcade version.
LocoCycle is about an self-aware combat motorcycle with guns and kung fu skills. Once you get past that insane premise, you might wonder who that was being dragged alongside the motorcycle in the first gameplay trailer. His name is Pablo, and he does not seem to be enjoying the ride even a little bit.
One of the world's finest downloadable content releases is The Wavy Tube Man Chronicles, The Gunstringer's gleefully silly Mad Dog McCree-style interactive gunslinger movie starring Troma mastermind Lloyd Kaufman. The Wavy Tube Man cannot be constrained by mere platforms and DLC shackles, though, and is breaking out onto Windows 8 in a standalone release.
Not much has been revealed about LocoCycle, Twisted Pixel's next game for Xbox Live Arcade. But nothing could have prepared us for this...
In time for PAX Prime, which kicks off in two days, the developer has unveiled a "first look" at the game. And it certainly stays true to its name, combining a motorcycle with insanity. If you can't make it to PAX to play the game, here's the next best thing.
It hasn't been long since Microsoft acquired Twisted Pixel, the studio behind Splosion Man and The Gunstringer. However, the Texas-based developer has already announced their first first-party game. Launching on Xbox Live Arcade in 2013 is LocoCycle.
Ms Splosion Man was a hit when it debuted on Xbox Live Arcade last year. But why should 360 players be the only ones to have the fun? Developer Twisted Pixel has announced that their critically-acclaimed platformer is going multiplatform--and in a big way, too.
The explosive run-and-jumper will be available on PC, Windows Phone 7, iPhone, and iPad later this year. It will be the first time a Twisted Pixel game will be available on a mobile device.
For those who haven't gotten enough gun-slingin' marionette action, The Gunstringer has released a new piece of downloadable content. "El Diablo's 'Merican Adventure" lets you play as the titular El Diablo, emerging from the underworld to find a suitable queen. It's available now for $3 (240 MSP).
Ms. Splosion Man is opening up a new Challenge, this time rewarding you with delicious steak -- the real kind that you can cook and eat. It starts tomorrow, Valentine's Day, and runs through February 27. If you manage to be one of the best challenge players, bam! Steak.
In an interview with Gamasutra, Twisted Pixel's chief creative officer Josh Bear admitted that Microsoft's recent acquisition of the independent developer was primarily due to a night of hard drinking. "Microsoft tricked Mike [Wilford, co-founder], Frank [Wilson, co-founder] and I into signing papers that handed the company over to them for 1600 MS points, and a copy of Azurik for the original Xbox." Trademark Twisted Pixel humor.
When offering legitimate answers, Bear discussed the future of the developer now that they are under the wing of Microsoft. Future projects may still include XBLA software or Kinect, but it's really based on "the idea and what we want to do," he said.
Twisted Pixel, the indie studio behind games including 'Splosion Man, The Maw, and The Gunstringer, is indie no more. Microsoft announced today that it has acquired the Austin-based developer, welcoming it into the Microsoft Studios family.
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"CRAZY" is how The Gunstringer developer Twisted Pixel has teasingly described the Kinect-powered shooter's mysterious free launch-day DLC, but it's turned out to be beyond that. The Wavy Tube Man Chronicles, you see, is a live-action homage to classic light gun games like Mad Dog McCree.
The Gunstringer swaggers onto Xbox 360, spurs clinking, in a demo out now for Twisted Pixel's puppety Kinect-exclusive arcade shooter. If you're looking for a Kinect game with fewer hoedowns and more showdowns, give it a bash.
The Gunstringer will be sold on the cheap, and include a token for Fruit Ninja Kinect to boot. Twisted Pixel and publisher Microsoft announced today that the game will come to North America, Australia, New Zealand, and Asia on September 13, and September 16 in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. It will cost $39.99 in the US, $10 less than the average Kinect title.
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