In case you missed The Gunstringer in stores, it is our pleasure to announce that starting today you can now find it at Games On Demand for the low price of $29.99 USD (prices may vary internationally).

And to celebrate going digital, we're releasing a new add-on called El Diablo's 'Merican Adventure for 240 MSP, also available today! Take control of an all-new protagonist, El Diablo, as he crawls his way up from the firey depths to track down his queen to be. Use a heavy metal shotgun guitar to dispose of all the baddies that stand in the way.

View the trailer here!

Have yer finger pistols been aching for more pew pews? You wanna get yer virtual hands on some extra Gunstringer content? Well unholster those sausage sidearms and get yerself ready for some Real Big Shootin!

"Mad Dog" McDog has been runnin his slanderin', slobberin' no good mouth about yer quick drawin' abilities and sumpin' needs to be done about it. Go up against his pitiful excuse for challenges with your six shooters blazin' to prove you are the best. Four acts with multiple challenges await as you blast yer way to takin' out that mangy coward. Even recruit a buddy to tag team that detestable cur. Available on XBLA for 240 MSP. View Trailer here

We just found out that The Gunstringer has been nominated for "Best Motion Control" game of the year by the Spike Video Game Awards! Cast your vote here to improve our chances of taking home a VGA!

And be sure to watch the VGA's LIVE on Spike TV this December 10th. Check your local listings for time and availability.

Twisted Pixel is pleased to announce today that our studio has officially become a part of Microsoft Studios. This acquisition marks a momentous occasion for Twisted Pixel as it will better equip the team to create new IP and gameplay experiences for our fans while under the ever expanding universe of Xbox entertainment.

We could not be more excited and hope that you will celebrate with us by raising a donut or seven. We look forward to the many games to come! Feel free to check out the official press release here for more details.

Well, after a long wait our first retail title, The Gunstringer, has finally hit shelves. We are so excited to have this game out, and with a host of extra fun! Included with the Gunstringer is a full version of Fruit Ninja Kinect from our buddies at Halfbrick, as well as a FREE DLC pack called The Wavy Tubeman Chronicles!

In The Wavy Tubeman Chronicles, play as The Stranger in a real life western setting ala Mad Dog McCree. It is up to you to stop Wavy Tubeman Jr. from using Doc Lloyd's (Lloyd Kaufman) Time Traviz device to bring the world to a crumbling end. It is by far the craziest and most ambitious thing we have ever done, and its FREE!! For more information on The Gunstringer visit www.thegunstringer.com.

Zen Studios announced today their collaboration with us on a custom Ms. Splosion Man themed pinball table coming to Pinball FX2 on Xbox LIVE® Arcade this summer.

Those crafty devils over at Zen snuck into our office late one night and took all of our Ms. Splosion Man assets to make the table. We struck back by crafting a digital Pinball table and added it to the Arcade section on the Ms. Splosion Man world map. Once you reach it you will be able to try out Pinball FX2 right inside the MsSM game. For more information visit www.pinballfx.com or check out the press release here.

We're very excited about this mash up and know you're gonna love it!

That's right! Twisted Pixel was excited to announce at E3 that The Gunstringer will be making his stage debut as a fully boxed retail title for Xbox 360 Kinect.

In The Gunstringer, play as the undead cowboy puppet shooting his way across the old west and beyond as he seeks revenge against his old posse. Using Kinect, pull The Gunstringer out of the ground and guide him on his quest using only the motion of your arms. You are the puppeteer, and his fate is literally in your hands. Look for The Gunstringer in stores Sept. 2011. For more information on The Gunstringer visit www.thegunstringer.com.

Click box image for larger view

The Captian and Star have found themselves sporting a new price of 800 msp for their "mis"adventures. To celebrate this new price, for the week of June 27th - July 3rd it is slashed in half to 400 msp for the Xbox LIVE Deal of the Week.

In Comic Jumper players control the Captain and his mouthy chestkick Star as they attempt to bring their comic book series back from the brink of cancellation by jumping into four different comic franchises. Each comic offers its own unique art style true to the era and varying gameplay mechanics in the vein of core classic shooters of the nineties. Check it out here.

It's not every day that you get to play an upcoming XBLA game before it comes out, but we're making it happen.

We are very excited to announce a public early access program for Ms. Splosion Man. Check out the dev blog for details. If you know how to splode, help us out by stress testing online multiplayer before the game comes out. Sign up at connect.microsoft.com/site1241!

Better late than never, anyway =) Back in 2009 Splosion Man was released, and Microsoft named it "Best Original Game for XBLA". Today, we got our award plaque! Thanks so much to Microsoft and our many fans for making this possible. It is our hope to bring you many award winning games for years to come!

Click the image to see a larger version of the Award

All week we have been teasing a new game mode coming to Ms. Splosion Man called 2G1C. Like its impossible-to-unsee video namesake, this new mode is ridiculous, preposterous, and not for everyone. Two Girls, One Controller allows one player to control two Splosion Gals simultaneously on the same controller. It takes a keen eye and a whole lot of dexterity to keep these two girls on target, but once you get the rhythm right you are off and sploding!

Check out the Ms. Splosion Man dev blog or the June issue of Game Informer Magazine for more details!

That's right! We're at PAX East and tearin' it up! Stop by our booth #723 to see and play both Ms. Splosion Man AND The Gunstringer. We will also be hosting several contests, including a dueling Ms. Splosion Man time trial to win a one of a kind prize, a raffle to win ANOTHER one of a kind prize both unveiled on Friday AND a chance to win your own custom song from TPG Audio Guru Matt "Chainsaw" Chaney, composer of the "Everybody Loves Donuts" performed for you live at PAX. Wheeew, thats a lot!

OH YEAH, also, make sure you come dressed as your favorite TPG character for a chance to win a "walk on" role in one of our upcoming games too ;)

Equals Twisted Pixel Mayhem!

Catch Mike and Josh this week at GDC showing off demo play of Ms. Splosion Man

Check out the Demo trailer and screenshots for Ms. Splosion Man here

Twisted Pixel is galloping off to demo The Gunstringer to press at the Microsoft Showcase event in San Francisco.

Shown there will be the prologue and first act of our puppeteering performance. Showcase will be the first look people will actually get to see of The Gunstringer game play. Keep a lookout online for articles from the event. It's sure to be a blast!

Check out some screenshots here

Today, we at Twisted Pixel have just announced Our 5th original IP, The Gunstringer, our first Kinect title. Play as a Marrionette Skeleton Cowboy as you puppeteer him thru his adventures seeking revenge on those that wronged him.

In addition to this announcement, we also would like to add that we launched an official Dev Blog for The Gunstringer that will be updated weekely by our talented "Gun" team. Feel free to check it out and post your comments.

www.thegunstringer.com

In addition to the big announcement today about Comic Jumper's launch on Oct 6 (see below) as part of the inaugural GAME FEAST, we are excited to talk about what we're going to be up to at this year's PAX.

PAX is our favorite show because it's the best opportunity we have to interact directly with our friends and fans who come hang out with us each year. Last year was awesome, so it will be hard to beat, but we're going to try! This year we will have the following awesomes at our booth (#3003):

• Four custom Comic Jumper "slim" Xbox 360 giveaways!
        (see official rules here!)
• FULL version of Comic Jumper playable!
• Check out the new Splosion Man unlockable DLC levels!
• Splosion Man and Comic Jumper competitions with prizes!
• Live performance of Donuts, Go Nuts! by the artist Chainsaw!
• New merch, including Comic Jumper maquettes, Splosion Man plushies, new shirts, more!

Today Microsoft Game Studios and Twisted Pixel are jointly announcing that Comic Jumper will be launched as a part of the inaugural GAME FEAST promotion this fall.

On October 6th, for 1200 points, you can finally get your hands on what is our biggest and most ambitious project ever.

Just turn on your Internet-connected Xbox on that day, and voila, you'll be presented with the gift of comic jumping!

So, we already revealed that the final comic style was going to be Manga, so that's old news. But what you DON'T know is that CoCo, NaNa, LoLo, HeHe and Pling Pling are pretty much the most evil and demented characters that we have ever conceived... and we think that really says something.

Our studio almost became a psych ward during the making of these levels. Click here to dive in and learn all about how we invented this madness known as Cutie Cutie Kid Cupids!

If you missed Comic Jumper at E3, you can come check it out and meet Twisted Pixel's CEO and Lead Concept Artist at the Xbox booth.

Play the game, get some free stuff, and ask Brandon to draw some cool sketches for you!

Just in time for E3, we've got our official Comic Jumper trailer here for your enjoyment.

We think it turned out pretty well and does a good job of rattling off all the cool things you can expect to find in the final game.

Check it out! (download hi-rez mov here)

If you've been playing our games, you know that we like to give away free stuff in each game.

In our first game, The Maw, we gave away the first premium dashboard theme. In our second game, Splosion Man, we gave away the first avatar awards. Now with Comic Jumper, we're giving away the first free DLC as an unlockable!

You'll get one free single-player and one free multiplayer level of Splosion Man to check out!

Next week is E3, and before we lift the veil off the first ever hands-on playable demo of our new title Comic Jumper, we've got a bunch of information to disseminate!

First, we're telling you what the final two comic book styles are! You already know the first style is modern and the second is fantasy. The final two are silver age and manga! We'll wait till after E3 to dive deeper into the manga style, but we're spilling all the beans on how the silver age comic was created, just click through here!

There have been a lot of guesses as to what comic genre we would be revealing as the second comic you get to "jump" into and play in our upcoming XBLA title Comic Jumper.

And BEHOLD!

NANOC THE OBLIVIATOR!

You may recognize the art style as an homage to a Mr. Frank Frazetta. Click on the comic cover to dive in and learn a lot more!

Curious to know more about our next title Comic Jumper? Come see us at PAX East to find out!

We will be playing through the first 10 minutes of the game at 1p / 3p / 5p each day and answering your questions. We're also raffling off a brand new statue! Come check us out!

You have been waiting patiently. Today we are revealing a ton of information about our next game Comic Jumper.

For starters, the first comic book that you "jump" into is all about the adventures of our main hero, the Captain.

We also have lots of concept art and a few really EARLY screenshots for you, as well as an in-depth Q&A with the dev team.

Just click HERE or on the comic cover to dive in!

Enjoy!

You've had your chance to pick up The Maw while it was on sale, now you've got a chance to pick up Splosion Man on sale!

Between Jan 31 and Feb 6, our crazy splosionistic platformer goes on sale for HALF OFF!!!

That's just 5 bucks! Get it while you can, Splosion Man returns to full price after February 6.

Pick up your copy from the Xbox LIVE Marketplace.

IGN has humbled us by awarding Splosion Man with their platformer of the year award! We've also won several other "best of 2009" awards from places like Joystiq and others.

2009 has been a great year for us. We released two games, The Maw and Splosion Man, both of which have won multiple awards. We would like to humbly thank all of our fans that have sprung up to support us, we want nothing but to make more cool games for you!

If you haven't played The Maw on Xbox LIVE Arcade yet, then it's Happy Mawlidays to you!

Between Dec 28 and Jan 3, our beloved first "buddy comedy" adventure goes on sale for HALF OFF!!!

That's just 5 bucks! Get it while you can, The Maw returns to full price after January 3.

Pick up your copy from the Xbox LIVE Marketplace.

We'll be on Spike TV tomorrow! The show is called "Next Great Game Gods" and premieres at 11p Central, which will be midnight Eastern time!

Check it out and see our team, our offices, and if you look real close, a sneak peak of our Lead Programmer Mike Henry working on our next big game, Comic Jumper!

UPDATE: Watch it online!

Splosion Man has been nominated for Best Independent Game in Spike TV's Video Game Awards 2009! You can show your support by voting here.

Remember to cast your vote early and often!

Today is a good day for Splosion Man! We have three new reasons why you should fire it back up:

1. Splosion Man will now award you free avatar accessories for playing the game!

2. After downloading the special gamerpic, each time you play Splosion Man in online multiplayer you are entered (up to 5 entries) for a chance to win free Omaha steak filets!

3. The title update we released also contains fixes so that online multiplayer is silky smooth for everyone!

Today we revealed our third original IP title called Comic Jumper.

You can download the Comic Jumper Reveal Video in hi-def here.

Come to PAX booth 3102 (next to the PAX 10 area) to visit with several members of the Splosion Man development team! You can play The Maw, Splosion Man, talk to the developers, and for the first time ever, buy some limited run merchandise, such as Maw plushies, Maw statues, Splosion Man statues, Splosion Man t-shirts and more!

A full online storefront will be coming shortly after PAX.

From our press release:

Frank Wilson, CTO of Twisted Pixel Games, learned today of an exploit that enabled cheaters to post impossibly good scores in his latest Xbox LIVE® Arcade game Splosion Man.

On Tuesday, September 1st, at approximately 2 a.m. PDT, a title update will be released to permanently seal the exploit, and select scores will be wiped from the leaderboards, so that only legitimate scores remain. This purge will be in time for the "Speedy Splode" trophy contest...

Read the full release here.

So... Splosion Man has been promised to be the first game to award you with avatar accessories. And it will be. But since the LIVE update was rolled out last week, you may be wondering when this feature will arrive. Unfortunately, we don't know, but it should be coming soon.

We'll let you know as soon as we hear more. Till then, keep sploding - you will be awarded retroactively, so you won't have to perform the achievements again.

One of Splosion Man's fans, a friend of the In-Game Chat guys, happens to be responsible for missiles that blow up bad guys.

Thanks to him, Splosion Man has joined the fight against evil. Check out these pics!

One lucky bad guy will see this Splosion Man "Meat Maker" flying at his face before he is sploded into a pile of ribeyes!

Adam Sessler, host of G4's X-Play, likes to get on his soapbox and rant every now and then about the state of games.

Today, he chose to rant about his fondness of Splosion Man and games like it.

Pretty cool!

Our buddy Dane Caro of Ecliptic Entertainment just released Picture Perfect, a NEW and FREE iPhone game featuring The Maw and Splosion Man characters!

It's a well-made puzzle solving game that will continually get free add-ons. It's super fun and addicting, give it a shot!

Starting tomorrow, July 22nd, you can meet Splosion Man in person. He will be born sometime tonight and available to play with tomorrow. So far, the game is getting some terrific responses, with a current Metacritic review score of 90%!

For 800 Microsoft points (10 bucks), you're getting 50 single-player levels, 50 multiplayer levels, 3 epic boss battles, free premium theme, gamerpics, and we will be the first to give away exclusive avatar accessories!

Check out the free trial here!

We hope you'll play the game and let us what you think at comments@twistedpixelgames.com!

Michael Wilford, CEO of Twisted Pixel, will be at Comic Con 2009 showing off Splosion Man to anyone that wants to see it. Find him at the Microsoft booth and try and stump him with difficult questions!

Send us an email at pr@twistedpixelgames.com if you would like to schedule a time to meet and check out the game at the show.

You can now check us out on Twitter and follow the latest crazy news on Splosion Man and our other games:

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            mikehasnoluck

Holy awesome! Splosion Man was nominated by IGN for FIVE "Best of E3" awards:

• Best Overall Platforming Game
• Best Overall Downloadable Game
• Best Xbox 360 Platforming Game
• Best Xbox 360 Downloadable Game
• Best Xbox 360 Artistic Design

And we won Best Xbox 360 Platforming Game!

Josh Bear and Michael Wilford fly out to LA today to record a segment for X-Play. They will be showing off Splosion Man for anyone who missed it at E3. The episode will air on Monday, June 15th at 6:30pm and 8:00pm.

Check out the show to see some exclusive gameplay footage from the game. The game is chock full of so much hilarity that we're not sure you can handle it!

Splosion Man will be playable at the Microsoft booth at E3. CEO Michael Wilford will be there too, so come say hello. This is the first time the public has gotten a real good look at the game so we're really looking forward to seeing everyone's reactions to this off the wall mayhem!

Microsoft announced today that Splosion Man will be a part of their lineup of premiere Summer of Arcade titles! That means we're almost done! =)

It's time. Time to pull back the curtain a little and show what Splosion Man will look like. Here's the first teaser trailer showing actual gameplay. Please keep in mind that this is a work in progress and the game will ultimately look much better than this.

Check out the teaser trailer in small or large, and screenshots below.

Today, Wednesday, April 29th, The Maw sees the release of his final piece of downloadable content called Speeder Lane. It features a new vehicle that Frank can tear around and blow stuff up with. As always, Maw scurries along by Frank's side, gobbling his way into mischief.

Fight a new boss battle and earn 20 achievement points! Download it now on Xbox 360, Steam, Greenhouse, or Direct2Drive for just $1.25.

Download the hi-def trailer here.

In the spirit of April Fool's Day, we made a tongue-in-cheek announcement yesterday for our next title called Splosion Man. Today, we are proud to announce that we weren't kidding. Splosion Man, a lab experiement gone wrong and made out of pure splosion, is real.

The game will be a 2.5D action/platformer based around the simple concept of splosions and the ridiculousness that ensues, including up to 4 player co-op (local and online), a single-player story mode chock full of hilarious cinemas seamlessly integrated into gameplay, epic boss battles, and it's coming to Xbox LIVE Arcade.

Download the April Fool's press release.
Download the April 2nd press release.

Today, Wednesday, March 11th, Frank is blocked by a raging river and must use Maw's various powers to solve the intricate puzzle in the second of three DLC levels called "Brute Force". You can download it now on your Xbox 360 for just 100 MS points, complete with a new 15 point achievement. There's one more level coming after this!

Download the hi-def trailer here.

As of today you can play The Maw on PC via the following awesome partners:

Steam

Greenhouse

Direct2Drive

You can also find our DLC on these sites. Steam and Greenhouse just added support for DLC and The Maw is the first game to try it out.

Today, Wednesday, February 18th, The Maw faces off against the new Brute Bounty Hunter Soldiers in the first of three DLC levels called "Brute Force". You can download it now on your Xbox 360 for just 100 MS points, complete with a new 15 point achievement. We're working on two more levels, so stay tuned!

Download the hi-def trailer here.

To celebrate, we made a before-and-after picture of what the Brute Force level looked like early in its creation versus in the final version. It's amazing what some shaders and lighting can do to spruce up a scene.

Check us out on X-Play this Friday! Josh Bear and Michael Wilford will demo level 3 "Chaindown" of The Maw for Adam Sessler and Morgan Webb. It airs this Friday, January 16th at 8pm Eastern time.

Last year, X-Play ran a special on all the PAX 10 finalists and they sent a producer to our studio. It was fun. This time we're flying out to LA to make fools of ourselves. Wish us luck!

At long last, The Maw has its release date and price point. Next Wednesday, January 21st, you will be able to buy the game for only 800 MS Points, or $10 in USD. We worked very hard to make the best game we could for 800 points and 150 megabytes.

We started development on October 1 2007, so this is a long time coming for us. We can only hope that it does well enough that we get to keep making more games for you! After you try it, please email us to let us know what you think we could do better next time!

Read the press release here (PDF)

It was announced this morning that The Maw is one of the finalists in the Independent Game Summit (IGF)!

We don't know what to say... this is totally MAWESOME!

Happy Mawlidays everyone! The site has been temporarily redecorated for the occasion.

Check out the cards we sent out this year - Brian Crecente at Kotaku got one and posted it here.

Last year we had Bruce Willis on the back. Often times our families find our sense of humor confusing, but to us it makes perfect sense. Die Hard is the ultimate Christmas movie!




...oh and we promise, The Maw is coming to XBLA soon! =)

As of November 1, we are fully operational in our new home studio in Austin, Texas. Every single employee made the move with us, so we're still going strong... stronger, even, because one of the main reasons for the move was to find a bigger talent pool we could draw from. Twisted Pixel is growing to handle a new round of projects, so if you've got skills and would like to work with a tight-knit squad of experienced developers making award-winning titles, drop us a line at Jobs@TwistedPixelGames.com!

During PAX we held a raffle where the winner would take home an extremely limited edition (only 20 were made) "Mawquette" statue. Well, the winner let us know that she is very happy with her new Maw pal to look over things from the mantle place.

Get a closer look here.

Seattle, Wash., September 22, 2008 - The votes are in! The organizers of The PAX 10 today announced Twisted Pixel's The Maw as winner of the 2008 Audience Choice award. The PAX 10, a showcase of ten independently developed games, were selected by a panel of 50 industry experts out of over 80 submissions as the best in terms of gameplay and "fun factor."

Official Press Release (PDF)

Kotaku Story

As part of a special episode that covered all of the PAX 10 games, G4 TV came out to visit us at our studio in Indiana. We went nuts and gave them a lot of wacky footage that they put to good use.

Check out our segment here.

MADISON, IN - July 9, 2008 - Twisted Pixel's first original game, The Maw for Xbox Live Arcade, has been selected as one of the official PAX 10 entries at this year's Penny Arcade Expo!

Check out the trailer at The Maw website here.

Download The Maw trailer here (27MB .wmv)

MADISON, IN - Twisted Pixel Games, LLC announced today that it has several original IP projects under development for console digital distribution. Dedicated to raising consumers' expectations from downloadable game content, Twisted Pixel is choosing its technology and content partners carefully in order to maximize both the quality and quantity of its content for current digital distribution platforms. Read more here (PDF)

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