Posted by Al
Fri, 1st Oct 2010
Hi everyone,
By even greater popular demand I’ve finally managed to get the time to complete a Level 2 playthrough of Ace Armstrong vs. the Alien Scumbags! on Rookie difficulty.
Check out the video goodness below:
I hope this inspires those of you who may already be on Ace to keep at it, and those of you who’ve yet to take the plunge to get involved and attempt to give the game a good kicking – once the game goes live in Europe I want to see those high scores, people! :)
No doubt there’ll be more news from LJ Towers next week. Peace. ;)
Posted by Al
Tue, 28th Sep 2010
Hi everyone,
Things are ticking along nicely at Laughing Jackal this week - we’re currently working on a couple of new minis projects and have any number of potential irons to go in the fire once those are out of the way. We’ve had tons of ideas for new games recently, so it’s exciting to see which of these will make it off the drawing board. :-)
As well as looking forward, this week I’m thinking back to our first minis title, Cubixx. This seems like good timing, what with the first birthday of minis fast approaching. For those who need reminding (or have no idea what I’m talking about), a trailer of the game can be seen below:
With posterity in the air and almost a year after the game’s original release on the SCEE Store, now seems like a great time to announce another of our ongoing projects. Drum roll please...
OK? We’re working on a PS3-exclusive sequel called Cubixx HD for release on the PSN Store. Cool, huh? :D
Taking all the best elements of its minis baby brother, Cubixx HD allows us to do all the things we wanted to do in the original but either didn’t have time for, didn’t think of, or weren’t allowed to do due to platform limitations or deadlines. We’ll give more details away over the coming weeks, but here are just a few of Cubixx HD’s new features:
- Lovely, crisp and shiny HD graphics (with more variety).
- More enemy types (and more of them!).
- Power Ups.
- Full Trophy support.
- A jam-packed ‘Challenge’ mode.
- Online leaderboards (including Facebook integration).
- Local multiplayer modes for up to 7 (!) players.
- Other equally epic stuff TBA.
Surely that’s it, right? No way could I announce anything else?! Well you’re wrong, because I can, and I am! :-)
To keep the party spirit that goes along with this announcement alive, we have 10 Cubixx free download vouchers to give away on our Facebook page, and 10 more to give away via our Twitter page. Both sets of codes will be good for either SCEA or SCEE account holders. W00t! :-)
Here’s how you can win:
TWITTER CUBIXX COMPETITION GUIDE:
- If you don’t have one already, create a Twitter Account.
- Choose to Follow @Laughing_Jackal
- Retweet our message containing the tag ‘#CubixxComp’.
- Cross your fingers and wait for the competition draw to close this coming Friday at 3:30pm GMT.
FACEBOOK CUBIXX COMPETITION GUIDE
- If you don’t have one already, create a Facebook Account.
- Find Laughing Jackal Ltd. on Facebook and choose to ‘Like’ us.
- Post a message on our Wall.
- We’ll choose our ten favourite messages once the competition closes at 3:30pm on Friday, so make sure you do something (legal and polite) to stand out! ;-)
Once again, the competition will run until 3:30pm GMT on Friday afternoon (that’s 1st October) and the results will be announced the same afternoon so you can play this awesome game before the weekend. If you want to enter the competition on both sites, feel free.
Good luck to everyone who enters. Oh and please get posting those hi-scores on our blog, our Facebook page, our Twitter page and anywhere else you can think of.
More news on the awesome sauce that is Cubixx HD over the coming weeks. Yay! :-)
Posted by Al
Thu, 16th Sep 2010
Hi everyone,
Just a quick post to let you know that a level 1 playthrough video is available below (or on Youtube):
This vid features a single-life playthrough, killing all enemies - no witnesses. ;)
Hope this help those of you who are struggling with Ace's old-school difficulty. Continues are for wimps! ;)
Thanks for now,
Al
