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Trials Evolution: Gold Edition PC demo out now, sale starts May 9
Ubisoft has released a free demo version of RedLynx's racing-platformer, Trials Evolution: Gold Edition, via Steam in advance of an upcoming sale later this week. The sale, which starts May 9 and continues through May 13, will drop the price of Trials Evolution: Gold Edition from $19.99 to $14.99, or from £15.99 to £11.99 for buyers in Europe. Trials Evolution: Gold Edition includes all content from 2012's Xbox Live Arcade release Trials Evolution, along with all tracks from its predecessor Trials HD. The game also includes an in-game track editor and level-sharing functionality, giving players access to a treasure trove of virtual injuries and other motorcycle-related mishaps.
Pre-order Trials Evolution: Gold Edition, get instant beta access
A closed beta for Trials Evolution: Gold Edition, the PC port of the XBLA hit set to drop in March 21, has started today. Ubisoft has announced that anyone who pre-orders the digital version of Trials Evolution: Gold Edition will get instant access to the beta, which runs until March 14.The beta itself covers all game content – it's less of a beta and more of an early unlock for a specific amount of time, really. Trials Evolution: Gold Edition features all of the content from the console release, plus all tracks from Trials HD, recreated with Trials Evolution's updated graphics and physics engine. %Gallery-180241%
Trials Evolution: Gold Edition hits PC March 21
Trials Evolution: Gold Edition will land (head first) on PC starting March 21. The game bundles up the previously Xbox-exclusive Trials Evolution and all the levels from its predecessor, Trials HD, into one big, bone-crushing package. Gold Edition features the same extensive level editor, allowing players to come up with all kinds of creations, including ones that have nothing to do with racing at all.Trials Evolution: Gold Edition will be available both via retail and download services. Check out a new trailer above.%Gallery-176643%
Trials HD & Evolution star in today's Xbox Live Countdown to 2013 deal
Today's Xbox Live's Countdown to 2013 deal is full of Trials and tribulations, minus the tribulations. The Xmas Eve offering knocks 400 MSP off both Trials HD and Trials Evolution, seeing bikers viciously flung off price crashes of 400 MSP and 800 MSP respectively.The games' add-ons are also discounted in today's deal, making each of the Big Thrills and Big Pack DLC for Trials HD as well as Origins of Pain for Evolution available for 200 MSP.
PSA: Riders of Doom DLC brings the apocalypse to Trials Evolution today
The thing about wheelies is that they're explorers at heart, constantly craving new, exciting places to pop. So we'd be remiss if we didn't inform you of the Riders of Doom DLC pack for Trials Evolution, available for download right now on Xbox Live Marketplace.Riders of Doom is 400 MS Points ($5) and themed around the Mayan Apocalypse. Within are 40 new tracks to break every bone imaginable in and a new bike to trash repeatedly, plus ten new Skill Games and "hundreds" of new items for the track editor – all new things to spice up that stale relationship with the wheelie in your life.%Gallery-173798%
Trials: Evolution leaderboards show more than one million bikers
It would appear Trials: Evolution has exceeded one million copies sold, based on current leaderboard data. 1,001,095 players have so far been recorded on the global leaderboards.Ubisoft's last update on sales figures was three weeks after Trials: Evolution launched, when RedLynx's latest hit the half-million mark. Trials: Evolution also established the record for "highest grossing day-sales in Xbox Live Arcade history" before Minecraft came in and shattered it.
PSA: Nutty Fluffies launches on iOS today
RedLynx's next mobile game, Nutty Fluffies, launches on both iOS and Android today. Nutty Fluffies is about a bunch of amusement park prize animals letting loose after the park closes and taking the coasters for a ride.It's the latest in RedLynx's line of physics-based racers, tasking players with managing a speeding rollercoaster and keeping it from being flipped upside down and ripping the stuffing out of those adorable plushies. You wouldn't let that happen, would you?
RedLynx's Nutty Fluffies coasts onto iOS November 1
Nutty Fluffies is coming to iPhone & iPad on November 1, Ubisoft announced today. The RedLynx iOS game mixes the Trials developer's trademark physics-based beatings with a cute assortment of fairground toys. The two come together to form a mixture of cuddliness, challenge, and rollercoaster-based carnage. And maybe a nutritious breakfast treat.Ubisoft revealed the game last month, and we took the opportunity to get a more in-depth look back then. We also have the above teaser trailer, which is fairly nutty, and the below gallery of screenshots, all of which are satisfactorily fluffy.%Gallery-169309%
PSA: Trials Evolution 'Origin of Pain' DLC out tomorrow
Trials Evolution's first DLC pack, 'Origin of Pain,' hits the track on Xbox Live Arcade tomorrow, October 5. The expansion pack takes everyone's favorite faceless dirtbiker to a new island where he can clumsily fall around through 36 new tracks, ten of which are new Supercross levels.Origin of Pain will cost 400 MS Points ($5) and also adds 100 new objects to the level editor suite for all you masochists out there.%Gallery-167514%
Trials Evolution: Gold Edition packs up Trials HD and its sequel for a PC roadtrip
PC gamers looking to get their treads dirty in the latest installment of RedLynx's physics-based motocross series, Trials Evolution, should hang tight until "early 2013." Ubisoft has announced a PC port called Trials Evolution: Gold Edition, and it'll include both Trials Evolution and Trials HD.The newly revealed add-on for Xbox Live Arcade, Origin of Pain, will not be included, according to Ubisoft.
RedLynx imperils plushies in 'Nutty Fluffies' for iOS
Trials and MotoHeroz developer RedLynx is now exacting its familiar physics-driven punishment on soft, defenseless plushies. Its new iOS game, which is genuinely called Nutty Fluffies, reveals what booth toys get up to when the fairground shuts down: they ride the roller coasters and get horribly mangled when you don't keep the vehicle right-side up.Alright, the cartoonish visuals don't exactly convey that level of imagined horror, but it's hard to brush off roller coaster accidents when they involve little stuffed creatures. Nutty Fluffies is an instinctual test of momentum and speed – and instead of balancing a bike, as you did in Trials, you're trying to keep a string of connected cars in tune with the track, even as it leaves momentarily to collect hearts. Succeeding is a matter of swiping forward across the screen to increase speed, even while in the air, and swiping backward to decrease it.There's more to the iOS game than that, of course, with specific animals bestowing bonuses after you purchase them for your empty cars. Also, the vehicle itself can be extended, with the implicit warning that a long coaster is about as graceful as a drugged centipede. Whee!Ubisoft hasn't yet shared a release date more specific than "2012."%Gallery-164512%
Trials Evolution discovers DLC and the 'Origin of Pain'
The first DLC pack for Trials Evolution will tilt and tumble to Xbox Live Marketplace next month. "Origin of Pain" takes you on a tour of Paine Island, which boasts 36 new tracks spanning "lost temples, a haunted circus, deserted beaches and a menacing volcano," for 400 MS Points ($5). We've seen people pay more just for the menacing volcano.Origin of Pain adds a new BMX dirt bike, with its own tracks and special event, while the elaborate track editor gets support for "teleporting, gun firing, switch filters and vector math." Finally, Origin of Pain includes ten new multiplayer tracks because, well, misery just loves company, doesn't it?%Gallery-164488%
Trials Evolution sure has some crazy looking user-generated content
Maybe you haven't played Trials Evolution in a while and you don't realize how much totally bananas user-generated content is available to be played, totally free? RedLynx and Ubisoft put together the trailer above to remind you of just that.
Trials Evolution getting bugfix update, resetting multiplayer leaderboards
RedLynx is delivering the first title update for popular motorcycle crash simulator Trials Evolution, adding fixes for a number of game issues, as well as tweaks to get rid of high score-ensuring loopholes.Because a lot of "corrupted data" made it on to the leaderboards at launch, according to RedLynx, the multiplayer scoreboards in Trials Evolution will be reset when the patch goes live at 2:00 AM PDT Wednesday morning. Single-player leaderboards, player-created track leaderboards, and multiplayer ranks won't be affected by this change.RedLynx recommends that players stay out of multiplayer for four to six hours after the update, in order to make sure that any scores earned are recorded correctly. What else can you do between the hours of two and eight AM? Sleeping is one option. Just throwing that out there.
Trials Evolution moves half a million in just three weeks
Screaming at monitors while attempting to make just one more crushingly difficult checkpoint is apparently a pastime shared by many, many gamers. This week, Ubisoft revealed that the latest Trials franchise entry – Trials Evolution – sold approximately 500,000 units since its launch in mid-April.Sure, it's no Minecraft: Xbox 360 Edition, but half a million sales in less than a month is quite impressive for a title on Xbox Live Arcade. How impressive, you ask? Well, we'd love to tell you, but Microsoft doesn't release sales numbers for XBLA games. Those rascals! For context's sake, though, we'd point out that it took just over a year for the first Trials game on XBLA to hit 1 million units sold. We get the feeling it'll take a bit less time with Evolution.In the same slide, RedLynx is called out as having many brands with "great multiplatform potential." A quick glance at RedLynx's catalog confirms our suspicion that Trials is indeed the Finnish studio's biggest "brand." How about that!
Gas up the MotoHeroz iOS truck for free right now
If there's a serious dearth of racers on your iDevice, RedLynx is looking to fill that void with a free download of MotoHeroz. Originally debuting on WiiWare, this game is – well, it's basically Trials. If you haven't heard of Trials, then you really need to start reading our site more.In short, MotoHeroz is a physics-based side-scrolling racer with platforming elements and a really depressing leaderboard where your friends show you how much better they are at the game. MotoHeroz is free to download on all iOS devices running version 4.1 or greater.
Is Trials Evolution the Perfect Game?
You're reading Reaction Time, a weekly column that claims to examine recent events, games and trends in the industry, but is really just looking for an excuse to use the word "zeitgeist." It debuts on Fridays in Engadget's digital magazine, Distro. Trials Evolution might just be the perfect video game. The subject matter doesn't seem worthy of the adjective, as it mostly involves a subject colliding with matter face-first after being catapulted from a motorcycle into an unimpressed log. It's just a simple, repeatable exercise in balancing a bike, which you steer through an insane obstacle course for no reason other than to succeed and see some flashy fireworks at the end.So, perhaps it's not the greatest or most important creation to emerge from an industry packed with intelligent designers and bold artists. It is, however, a perfect encapsulation of what drives any good game. Trials is like a transparent cube – a simple shape to house and display the same gears that turn within more elaborate machines. (It also costs $15, so a comparison to one of those gaudy, see-through Swatches from the '90s might be more apt.)
Trials Evolution track ranking bug resolved
An error in Trials Evolution's user-generated track ranking algorithm has been fixed, according to Eurogamer. The error, which resulted in newly created high-ranking tracks being promoted at the expense of older, equally awesome tracks has been corrected by making lifetime user ratings part of the calculation. This means that, old or new, the best user-created content should float to the top.We tried our hand at creating a Trials Evolution course, once. The idea was that the player would ride a motorcycle down an infinite ramp, gaining speed as they did so until they went so fast that they traveled back in time to the very creation of the universe, where they would instantly asphyxiate in the unforgiving void of space. Sadly, no one on staff had the time, patience or motivation to actually make any of that stuff happen, so what we ended up with was the Trials Evolution equivalent of a macaroni doodle.
Trials Evolution is 'highest grossing day-sales in Xbox Live Arcade history'
Maybe you haven't heard – Trials Evolution is kind of a big deal. Such a big deal, apparently, that Microsoft says it's the, "highest grossing day-sales in Xbox Live Arcade history." What does that actually mean? Your guess is as good as ours, as Ubisoft unfortunately "don't have any numbers that we can share." At least that's what a rep tells us. Harumph.Gamasutra, however, sussed out from Xbox Live leaderboards that approximately 100K ruff ryders took to the hills and valleys (and tires and wood and ... you get the idea) of Trials Evolution. Not too shabby for day-one sales on Xbox Live ... we think? At 1200 MS Points ($15), that's approximately $1.5 million gross in a mere 24 hours, so, yeah, not too bad!
Trials Evolution review: Try, try again
I made a huge mistake. "So help me, Richard, if I don't review Trials Evolution," I said back in March, "I'll start walking to Oklahoma right now."That was when I was younger, more foolish and willing to march to someone's house to get a downloadable game.The Ben of mid-April, however? He knows better. He knows that a sequel to 2009's Trials HD, expanding greatly on the finely tuned physics masterpiece of the first game, would be a dangerous game to review. Not because it isn't good – sweet lord, it's glorious – but because reviews are things that happen quickly after release. What I want to do with Trials Evolution is play it for another decade. Maybe then – maybe! – I could speak to all the content RedLynx added this time around.But here we are, and this is a review. So here it is: Trials Evolution is excellent.%Gallery-151268%
