Twisted Pixels upcoming XBLA game ‘The Maw’ has just been announced the winner of the PAX Audience Choice Award. In ‘The Maw’ you take control of Frank an alien who must ally himself with a blob with an insatiable appetite to find his way home. Check out the trailer after the jump.
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.” The PAX 10 winners displayed their games at the 2008 Penny Arcade Expo (PAX), allowing attendees the opportunity to view each of the titles and cast their secret ballots, earning The Maw top honors for the inaugural year of the showcase event.
JudeMaverick
It shouldn’t be a XBLA game, it should be a 360/PS3 game :O
September 24th, 2008 at 9:29 pm
Dan Z
That looks awesome. I had never even heard of this game until today.
September 25th, 2008 at 2:25 am
trash
This is teh awesome! I’m a jump’n'run-lover – too sad I don’t own a 360
September 25th, 2008 at 10:25 am
Ghalwa
An additional note for those of you who might be iteafxd on my 9 original hit limit estimate. There isn’t really a magic number, in XBLA or any other ecosystem. Technically, if every developer and publisher decided to focus entirely on original IP, and if many of them did a good job of developing and marketing the aforementioned original IP, you would most likely see much more than 9 hits. But, as 3rd party publishers continue to take XBLA more seriously, odds are that they’ll put more and more effort into established properties like Battlefield and Street Fighter not original IP. Development and marketing budgets will continue to rise. This will increase the already significant pressure on indies to find ways of standing out. Consequently, I would argue that 9 is, in fact, a rather *optimistic* number.
March 27th, 2012 at 6:04 pm