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:

            TwistedPixJason

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)

Check out the official website here.

Twisted Pixel is proud to be a part of the engineering team that brought this exciting title to the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3.

Midway Games has announced that they are working on the next installment of the BLITZ franchise.

Check it out here.

There isn't much that can be said about the game right now, but Twisted Pixel is proud to be part of the engineering team on this exciting title.

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