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Amazon acquires Reflexive for digital distribution
Amazon.com has taken another step toward launching the Amazon Software Download store this week, acquiring casual games distributor Reflexive Entertainment for an unspecified sum. Reflexive CEO Lars Brubaker announced the deal on his company's blog with much enthusiasm (and, no doubt, newly swelled pockets). While recognized as a capable developer (Reflexive's Wik & The Fable of Souls nabbed an IGF award in '05), Reflexive was more likely targeted by Amazon for its experience in running its own digital distribution portal.In February, Amazon posted a job listing for a software development engineer to join the company's Software and Video Games Digital Technology team to develop a digital distribution platform for games. To want extent Reflexive is aiding, or simply replacing that team is unknown. "We can't talk about everything yet, but we'll be in touch shortly with more information," Brubaker promises.
Another freeware game swims to WiiWare
Hey, there's a party beneath the sea, and you're invited! Reflexive Entertainment just announced a WiiWare version of its maritime-themed PC puzzler Big Kahuna Reef, except because this is the Wii and the Ultimate Party Machine, it's now called Big Kahuna Party. Adding Party has worked for at least one other title, we believe.Gameplay in Big Kahuna Party is of the "line-tiles-up-to-make-them-disappear" variety, and while that may not sound wildly exciting, there will be both co-operative and competitive play for two to four players in all of the game's 99 levels. The reward for completing stages is the chance to unlock 26 "beautifully rendered" exotic fish and, uh ... that's it.Oh yes, and you can totally play it for free already, much like certain other WiiWare games. No release date for this one yet, but we sense it needs to be cheap.%Gallery-28418%[Via press release]
Wik devs plant The Great Tree for PC
With 14 titles to its credit, developer Reflexive Entertainment is feeling mighty proud of itself, sticking out its chest and passing out cigars as it awaits the arrival of its 15th and latest progeny, a "grown-up story of good and evil" called The Great Tree. Set for release for the PC on December 19, the game is illustrated by the same artist behind Wik and the Fable of Souls, and even a cursory glance at this latest game's initial screens shows much in common between the two titles, namely with characters and designs that creep us right out. Even so, the game certainly looks interesting, as it lets you control a diminutive (and customizable) fairy throughout 100 different tree-filled levels, though if they are populated with creatures like that eerie tree-face thing, we're likely not to make it very far.
Axiom: Overdrive slated for a Winter XBLA release
LunarDuality over at XBLArcade.com did some detective work, put a few puzzles pieces together and discovered what Wik: Fable of Souls developer Reflexive Entertainment's next game will be for the Xbox Live Arcade. After cross referencing a few press releases and looking up the game's entry on the IGF website, it's pretty much confirmed that a game called Axiom: Overdrive will be released to the Arcade sometime this Winter. Not to much is known about the game other than one screenshot, a "coming soon" website and a description that reads ..."Deep within a ravaged asteroid mine there is work to be done. Equipped with an OTF, players grapple with unique physics-based game-play as they explore the mine's dark corridors and discover... they are not alone! "Axion: Overdrive. A space shooter XBLA game that'll have you exploring an asteroid mine this Winter ... w00t!
