Pirates vs. Ninjas Dodgeball Media and Delay Details
Gamecock Media Group announced today that due to pirated copies of Blazing Lizard’s upcoming Pirates vs. Ninjas Dodgeball being on the loose the game will be revamped and held until later this Spring.
“We see the irony in all this,” noted Christopher Stockman, Studio Director at Blazing Lizard. “Rest assured, we have a crack team of Ninjas on the case and hunting down all pirates. On the positive side it gives us a chance to go back and add in additional content to the game.”
What this means for fans of Pirates (the sea-faring kind) and Ninjas is more bang for their buck when the game releases (this also includes fans of the other teams in the game, Robots and Zombies). In addition to the free-flinging arcade dodgeball events already in place (look out for Peg-Leg Stomps and Shuriken Attacks.), Blazing Lizard is adding more traditional rules dodgeball modes where teams stay only on their side and multiple dodgeballs are in play. Now we can settle the score once and for all.
For more info visit www.piratesvsninjas.com. If you are one of the pirates, watch your back!
[disclaimer: the game has not been pirated but we wanted an excuse to announce the wait for the game and the new game mode.]
About Blazing Lizard, Inc.
Formed in early 2007, Blazing Lizard’s goal is to create high quality, compelling console downloadable games for all platforms. Their first game Pirates vs. Ninjas™ Dodgeball is poised to redefine consumer expectations of console downloadable games when it’s released for Xbox 360 in the first quarter of 2008. Browse to www.blazinglizard.com for more.
About Gamecock Media Group
Based in Austin, Texas, Gamecock Media Group offers a welcome solution to the bloated and originality-starved video game industry. A well-funded, independent, artist-driven company, Gamecock favors the most innovative and original video game developers in the industry. Publishing games for all platforms, Gamecock offers its developers a high degree of participation, freedom and financial incentives, allowing them to perform and create to their utmost ability. For more, please visit www.gamecockmedia.com.
Comments
strategykinq92
I feel bad for them, you work on a game for a long time, and people just steal it.
Tomacco
:) you did read the whole article right?
OXM gave the game a 6.0 which in their review scale means "decent". One of the problems that they had was that the game doesn't have an actual dodgeball mode. It seems like they are going to fix this with the delay which sounds like a good idea to me. I asked on their forums if this might be enough to make them review the game again but as of yet no one from OXM has replied.
strategykinq92
I did.. just didn't notice that last part.
(you deceitful ba****ds!)
Tawse and Turn
Makes me wonder how many XBLA are actually pirated now.
I realize you can have multiple copies of a game with a single account, but that is rather limted in the number of copies able to be used as well as eliminates online play.
x Cheevos x
On the OXM forums the OXM Intern confirmed that they will be reviewing the game again in the next few months.