http://www.xgenstudios.com/ The latest news from XGen Studios. http://www.xgenstudios.com/ Click Here to watch it!...]]> Robyn Wed, 07 Jul 2010 13:03:50 -0500 Motherload: The Movie is officially released! Click Here to watch it! Mediapaja has been diligently keeping us updated in the forums, and it's now time for the unveiling of the film! The flash game Motherload was released in September 2004, before XGen was even a company. It was created out of a simple desire to create a game that we personally would want to play. Featuring entrepreneurial digging, flying, upgrading and even battling some surprising demonic forces, Motherload was the first game that I personally made with XGen. It remains my favorite today. Kudos to Mediapaja Productions for their excellent work, attempting to remain faithful to the awfully silly material it was based on, and finishing with a truly excellent tribute - And making it free for anyone to enjoy! Cheers! - Read/Post Comments -]]> 1278525830 http://www.xgenstudios.com/ Defend Your Castle on iPhone/iPod Touch is FREE!... Lots of new great featured games... Reminder: Follow us on Twitter for instant news of the best in flash games...]]> Robyn Sat, 29 May 2010 22:10:12 -0500 Defend Your Castle on iPhone/iPod Touch is FREE! Only for an extremely limited time, so grab your device and download your very own copy! Some very notable featured games this past week, let us know what you think of Castaway, Robotic Emergence, Triggerman and Sprocket Rocket! And just a reminder, XGen is on Twitter! Follow us there for instant notification of the new featured games, as well as any news regarding one of our highly anticipated, long-awaited sequels... - Read/Post Comments -]]> 1275189012 http://www.xgenstudios.com/ Trailer for The Motherload Fan Movie! Awesome... Chaos Returns to XGenStudios...]]> Robyn Fri, 07 May 2010 12:53:14 -0500 The Mediapaja sends word; the newest Trailer for The Motherload Fan Movie is available for viewing! This trailer is amping up our excitement to new heights, and even the fiendish Mr. Natas makes an appearance! I have a feeling he's up to something... Chaos Returns to XGenStudios! Chaos Faction 2 launches after the original success almost four years earlier. CF2 is about slugging it out and holding nothing back, it's going to kick your butt! - Read/Post Comments -]]> 1273254794 http://www.xgenstudios.com/ Robyn Sat, 03 Apr 2010 12:40:08 -0500 Hope you all enjoyed the April Fools day shenanigans around the net and here on XGen, you can still try out Epic Beard Man Vs. The Trololo Invasion if you missed it! Even the (suddenly French) forums were abuzz with April Foolery, Mediapaja posted that the Motherload Movie has been sadly canceled and has been replaced by a more ambitious project. Many laughs ensued at XGen. And yes, the StickRPG2 project has finally received a much needed re-invigoration, the SRPG2 forums are officially reopened and StickRPG2.com has been updated. Stay tuned for more! - Read/Post Comments -]]> 1270316408 http://www.xgenstudios.com/ Blast RPG! Launch and Level Up... Da Vinci Cannon Prematurely Detonates... More pictures from Motherload: The Movie...]]> Robyn Mon, 29 Mar 2010 14:39:48 -0500 Blast RPG! Combining the relatively new 'launch' style game genre with classic RPG elements, our friends at Nitrome have come up with an excellent combination. Fly toward your enemies with reckless abandon, slashing and leveling up as you go! Da Vinci Cannon blasts it's way into your brain with addictive 'Crush The Castle' style gameplay. Blast down the walls and obliterate the populace! The Motherload Short Film is still moving along, here's the update from forum member Mediapaja, including some more great looking pictures. - Read/Post Comments -]]> 1269891588 http://www.xgenstudios.com/ Brotherhood of Battle Gets a Big Update... Motherload: The Movie, a fan-made project... XGen's Next in-house projects...]]> Robyn Mon, 15 Mar 2010 16:18:07 -0500 Our Multiplayer RTS Brotherhood of Battle has been upgraded! Balancing improvements, bug fixes, security enhancements and even a fair bit of new content! If you already have a Stick Arena account, you've got everything you need start playing. Just log in with your XGen Account! Finnish XGenStudios Forum Member MediaPaja is working on a live-action short film directly inspired by Motherload! We're seriously impressed! Go give him some support and tell him how great it looks so far. XGen's in-house development team has been quiet lately, but rest assured we have many simultaneous projects in the works. Some of them are going to really surprise you, others have been a long time coming... Let's leave it at that for now. Stay tuned for further notice! - Read/Post Comments -]]> 1268687887 http://www.xgenstudios.com/ Conditioning you to play better... Heavy Rain is Sweet, PS3 Bugs are Not... Portal 2 Hinting from Valve is Clever...]]> Robyn Tue, 02 Mar 2010 13:23:08 -0600 Blast some green goos, explore a space station and power yourself up with collectibles. Condition continues the great mini-genre of metroidvania/cave-story-esque adventure games. Heavy Rain, the PS3 exclusive Interactive Drama is quite remarkable. In an industry known for rehashing the same ideas, it dares to be very different; paying off in a big way. Now if only there weren't so many recent PSN problems preventing me from playing it... Valve has been very busy with Portal 2 hinting by releasing a string of extremely cryptic hints in a Portal patch. Dedicated fans have discovered that the patch adds hidden radio messages; audio beeps that can be decoded into some bizarre images, leading to an old-school Bulletin Board System with further imagery. Exciting! - Read/Post Comments -]]> 1267557788 http://www.xgenstudios.com/ Balloon in a Wasteland... One Button Bob... Fallout: New Vegas Teaser...]]> Robyn Thu, 04 Feb 2010 14:06:28 -0600 Balloon in a Wasteland leaves you stranded in a hostile desert. You've got to repair and get out of there before the wildlife overruns your camp! One Button Bob is really simple. He's got a one track mind that is dedicated solely to finding treasure. Give him a hand - just one - influencing his adventures through binary input! Fun! Bethesda teases us with some new video, setting the stage for the next game in the amazing Fallout universe - Fallout: New Vegas. XGen loves everything Fallout and eagerly waits to try this new incarnation. - Read/Post Comments -]]> 1265313988 http://www.xgenstudios.com/ to Hell!... XGen does Twitter... Apple unveils the iPad...]]> Robyn Thu, 28 Jan 2010 15:18:24 -0600 Carve the pentagram, recite the incantations and Go to Hell! This featured adventure game takes a lot of cues from our own Motherload, the grand-daddy of flash digging adventures. For you Tweet-o-holics out there, XGen is on Twitter! Now you can stay in touch with our news and releases, instantly! Isn't the internet great? Apple had it's 'magic' unveiling, revealing the iPad to the world. From the company that is single-handedly dominating the mobile device world, the iPad promises a compromise between the portability of an iPod Touch and the power and usability of a Macbook. Internet opinions are initially on the negative side, with complaints about things not included... For us though, we can't stop thinking about how great it will be to play Defend Your Castle on the device. Truly sweet. - Read/Post Comments -]]> 1264713504 http://www.xgenstudios.com/ Robyn Sat, 26 Dec 2009 00:05:44 -0600 On behalf of the XGenStudios Staff, we hope you had a Merry Christmas and wish you the best in the new year! If you're lucky enough to be a Stick Arena Ballistick Lab Pass Holder, check your Profile tab in the game for an extra holiday surprise! 2009 has seen some great progress for XGen; the launch of iPhone/iPod Touch Defend Your Castle and several new titles using MMOcha technology, including the release of Boxhead Bounty Hunter! Looking forward to being your go-to gaming site in 2010 and beyond! - Read/Post Comments -]]> 1261807544 http://www.xgenstudios.com/ Boxhead Bounty Hunter is live! Multiplayer Fragfest, go get some bounty!...]]> Skye Wed, 25 Nov 2009 19:29:29 -0600 The time has come to lift the veil on XGenStudios' newest addition to our multiplayer family of games! Utilizing the creative universe of Boxhead, invented by Sean Cooper, XGen has designed and developed Boxhead Bounty Hunter; the latest title to use our MMOcha multiplayer technology. Blast strangers and friends alike with more then 10 weapons and 7 kinds of equipment -- including C4, Airstrikes and Spy Satellites! With up to 16 players per arena, there's always someone to kill. Pursue the members of the Most Wanted Bounty List for the highest gains! But pay close attention, attaining a spot on The List makes you a target for other bounty-hungry players! - Read/Post Comments -]]> 1259198969 http://www.xgenstudios.com/ Robyn Sat, 31 Oct 2009 12:21:07 -0500 The Pumpkin contest is now over! The official winner of the contest is… Marty! With his XGen Logo pumpkin (and cool video)! Marty is awarded a Free 2-Year Lab Pass for his efforts. We also had fine entries from stevengeier21112, Jammer, db3000, somerandomdude and criticism! Since you guys put so much effort into it, we've decided that we will also award all runners-up with a Free 1-Month Lab Pass! Winners, keep an eye on your forum private messages, you will be contacted there to receive your prize. - Read/Post Comments -]]> 1257009667 http://www.xgenstudios.com/ Robyn Tue, 27 Oct 2009 16:43:20 -0500 Announcing the first annual XGenStudios Pumpkin Carving Contest! StevenGeier21112, of the XGenStudios forums, has already got an early start -- giving us the idea that we should make it into an official contest! Choose anything related to XGen - or our games - and carve your way to a Free 2-Year Stick Arena Ballistick Lab Pass! Submissions are to be posted in the official pumpkin carving forum thread, and deadline for submissions is midnight (PST) on October 30th. XGenStudios Staff and Stick Arena Moderators are not eligible to win the contest, sorry guys. :) - Read/Post Comments -]]> 1256679800 http://www.xgenstudios.com/ Robyn Mon, 19 Oct 2009 14:16:56 -0500 Things are getting spooky, and the time of The Devlian has come again! Our poor Helvian's evil twin has overthrown his good-natured double and is free to cry havoc and unleash hell upon all XGen! Well, other then his particular fondness for orange over our traditional blue... I'm sure everything will work out OK for XGen. If you're seeing a multi-colored abomination, try clearing your browser cache. In other news, the XGen team is fresh from attending the Edmonton Flash In the Can conference on the weekend. Not only was it a rewarding and educational experience, and a great chance to meet some industry vets, we were also the first team to correctly decipher the clues left by Adobe Platform Evangelist Lee Brimelow (Of theflashblog.com) to find this year's Adobe Dead Drop! Earning us a commemorative coin and a copy of Adobe Creative Suite CS4! - Read/Post Comments -]]> 1255979816 http://www.xgenstudios.com/ 6 Player Stick Arena have arrived!]]> Skye Wed, 07 Oct 2009 00:18:19 -0500 It's here - 6 Player Stick Arena, plus new Classic Maps. Using your feedback, we've updated and improved just about every one of Stick Arena's original maps (Don't worry - we kept XGen HQ just the way you like it). Since there are a few different ways to get a 6-player game going, I'll explain exactly how it works. To start, you'll need at least one player with a Lab Pass. If only one player is playing with a Lab Pass, that player will need to VIP at least 2 other players and then create a game, making sure that the VIP'd players joins last. Another way to get a 6 player match going is to have 2 Lab Pass player join a game in progress that already has 4 players - how about a 3v3 match? (or 2v4, if you're feeling lucky!) Here's another way to look at it; there are 2 'reserved' spots in every game for players with Lab Passes. Players with a Lab Pass as well as those that have been VIP'd by the game creator can join games with 4 players already in them (up to the new maximum of 6 players per game). What does all this mean? Well, you'll probably want to get yourself a Lab Pass, but you should also keep in mind that Player Join Order is important when some players don't have Lab Passes, or when not everyone has been VIP'd. Now go play a 6 player free-for-all, or organize yourself a 3v3 (or 2v2v2?) Team Deathmatch. Happy Fragging! - Read/Post Comments -]]> 1254892699 http://www.xgenstudios.com/ Stick Arena Ballistick gets a new pet and new tiles!... More featured games, we know you love them...]]> Robyn Tue, 08 Sep 2009 16:15:16 -0500 Stick Arena Ballistick has received another big update. Included this time is a brand new pet based on Defend Your Castle and a bunch of brand new tiles for map-makers, including water! Get the details here. More updates on the way! Mechanaught, Ragdoll Cannon Level Pack, and 99 Bricks: The Legend of Garry have been added to our roster of great featured titles, give them a go! - Read/Post Comments -]]> 1252444516 http://www.xgenstudios.com/ Stick Arena Lab Pass for FREE... New How-to-Play Defend Your Castle video... Even More Featured Games...]]> Robyn Wed, 19 Aug 2009 16:38:08 -0500 Haven't taken the plunge into Stick Arena Ballistick's Lab Pass Features yet? Or maybe just looking for some extra days? We've just finished setting up a rewards system for those short on dough, it allows you to earn Lab Pass days without the need for any cash whatsoever! We've also uploaded a neat little Defend Your Castle How-to-Play video on the DYC page, just in case you're not familiar with the mechanics of the classic game. Special thanks to Eric Cheng and Leif Oleson-Cormack for the excellent audio and voice-over work. Also, have some destructive fun in Building Blaster, burn it to a crisp in Pyro 2 or just kill some mindless undead in More Zombies. XGen always features the best and the brightest of internet flash developers. - Read/Post Comments -]]> 1250717888 http://www.xgenstudios.com/ Warzone Tower Defense and Splitter 2... Incredibly annoying multiplayer weapons... Comic-con... Video Game Dialogue Hell...]]> Robyn Tue, 04 Aug 2009 15:15:51 -0500 Some new featured games for you guys; strategic deployment of base defenses - so fun, so Warzone Tower Defense. And cut some stuff up to solve Splitter 2 if your puzzling sense is tingling. Joystick Division talk about some multiplayer weapons that make you want to tear your hair out. Zomg - l2play nubs! Comic-con is wrapping up, and it's always entertaining to see the laughably bad costumes people come up with. Oh and there's also... you know... The Best. Video Game Dialogue has a rough history, but some of these will make you feel nostalgic in all of the funny places. - Read/Post Comments -]]> 1249416951 http://www.xgenstudios.com/ New Featured Games for everyone... iPhoners love Defend Your Castle!... Old-School Achievements... ]]> Robyn Mon, 20 Jul 2009 15:59:12 -0500 Some newer games for you guys; control a nanoTank and expertly navigate your way to success. Destroy everything from cerise to scarlet and russet to ruby in Red Remover. Rocket that pesky rodent again, this time through the center of the earth all the way to Mars in Hedgehog Launch 2! Thank you, iPhone lovers, for giving Defend Your Castle a welcome reception to the app store. Some people have even managed to collect all 45 achievements! Future updates for the game will include new achievements and a few surprises... Here's a chuckle for old-school gamers like myself; Gamespy has a rundown of some great unofficial Old-School Achievements for that classic gamer in all of us. - Read/Post Comments -]]> 1248123552 http://www.xgenstudios.com/ Space Trader Wars... Cargo Bridge needs your help with some designs... Upgrade Complete - buy your way to victory...]]> Robyn Fri, 19 Jun 2009 15:41:53 -0500 We're proud to present the Beta for Space Trader Wars here on XGen! At this time, the game is exclusively available to Stick Arena Ballistick Lab Pass Holders. Just one more reason to join in on the fun! Cargo Bridge tests your engineering skills, bridge the gap to gather the goods - You can do it! Upgrade Complete is quite simple really; nearly everything in the game can be upgraded, including Menu Buttons, Game Graphics, and loads more! You even have to buy your own mute button! Absurd! - Read/Post Comments -]]> 1245444113 http://www.xgenstudios.com/ Lemonade World, squeeze some damn lemons!... Andy Law, bring justice to the future... E3 is wrapping up again this year, with some big announcements...]]> Robyn Fri, 05 Jun 2009 17:06:33 -0500 Lemonade World brings back memories of the old tycoon games when things were as simple as plucking a lemon, grabbing some ice and selling a refreshing drink! Andy Law brings justice to the world. Equip from a massive loadout of weapons and equipment, gear up your squad and take to the enemy with blinding speed and furious destruction! E3 is wrapping up again this year, for an easy rundown of the biggest announcements and happening check out Time.com's E3 Top 10. Motion controls look exciting, and the new Metroid game looks very promising. - Read/Post Comments -]]> 1244239593 http://www.xgenstudios.com/ DYC is live, featuring further upgrades to your towers!... Defend Your Castle Lite launches!... Stick Arena gets updated too... Arrr...]]> Robyn Thu, 28 May 2009 14:46:45 -0500 Defend Your Castle 1.03 update is out in the app store, you can now upgrade your castle towers and the pit of conversion to three levels of effectiveness. Give your archers exploding arrows or empower your mages to convert multiple units at once with the even mightier spray can! Defend Your Castle Lite has also hit the app store, for those who want to give the game a try without forking out those precious 99 cents. Stick Arena Ballistick has received another update today; adding in three new spinners, four new maps and the ability to rate maps after each round. Place the traps, rig the proper triggers and wait for the sea-dogs to come a snoopin around; Pirate Defense is newly featured at XGen. - Read/Post Comments -]]> 1243540005 http://www.xgenstudios.com/ Defend Your Castle 1.02 Update is out, Achievements are here!... The new tileset is live and the contest is over!...]]> Robyn Thu, 14 May 2009 15:31:40 -0500 The iPhone/iPod Touch Defend Your Castle 1.02 Update is out! Your superb defending abilities now earn you Achievements! With 45 different achievements to unlock, can you become the 'Magical Master' (cast 20 spells in a single round) or build a 'Monstrous Castle' (reach 100,000 max castle health)? Watch for more new features and even more achievements coming in the next update! The map-making pre-release contest for Stick Arena Ballistick is over! Masterchuf has used the new tileset in the coolest way with his map Orbit, earning him a gold builder spinner, his map added to the official map list and 25,000 Cred to top it off! The new tileset is now available for everyone to create with in the Ballistick Map Editor, so grab a Lab Pass and try out your creations with your friends! - Read/Post Comments -]]> 1242333100 http://www.xgenstudios.com/ Tons of new featured games... Internet radio with a video game theme?... DYC iPhone update coming soon!...]]> Robyn Thu, 07 May 2009 16:18:04 -0500 May has been a great month for flash games so far, XGen's newest featured games; Spewer - vomit your way to victory, The Arrow of Time transcends eras, Endless Zombie Rampage 2 gives us our zombie blasting fix and Crush The Castle seems familiar in a role-reversal kind of way... Hrm... Did you play video games in the 8-bit days? Still play them today? 8BitFM has the answer to your cravings. Bring back some wicked memories of the days of yore, listening to official tracks or remixes of the old classics. 8BitFM is rockin' the XGen offices all day long. I don't want to reveal too much about the upcoming Defend Your Castle iPhone/iPod Touch update, but I will say this: Achievements! - Read/Post Comments -]]> 1241731084 http://www.xgenstudios.com/ Stick Arena Ballistick goes into The Void!... Possess some lackeys in Tower Tactics Aphelion...]]> Robyn Thu, 30 Apr 2009 21:41:49 -0500 Stick Arena Ballistick is getting a big official update; here's a sneak peek at the newest area for you to have fun fragging your friends in: The Void! We're having an invitation-only event for the release, allowing those who have proven their map-making caliber to get an early release of the new zone to make some maps for the release! Look for it in Stick Arena Ballistick in the near future! Possess some witless lackeys and lead them to victory in the Strategy/RPG Tower Tactics Aphelion, newly featured at XGen. - Read/Post Comments -]]> 1241145709 http://www.xgenstudios.com/ Update: Defend Your Castle on iPhone & iPod Touch is currently on sale for only 99 cents! (50% off the regular price of $1.99) Defend Your Castle is now available worldwide on iPhone & iPod Touch! Get it now on iTunes!]]> Jordan Mon, 20 Apr 2009 21:38:54 -0500 Update: Defend Your Castle on iPhone & iPod Touch is currently on sale for only 99 cents! (50% off the regular price of $1.99) After much anticipation and fanfare (ok... mostly from ourselves here at XGen), Defend Your Castle is now available worldwide on iPhone & iPod Touch at an introductory price of only $1.99! Sweet! Thanks to all you guys who have already gone and checked out the game. For everyone else... Get it now on iTunes! Oh and don't forget to root for us as the team suits up and heads to Vancouver this weekend for the 2009 ELAN Awards where Defend Your Castle has been nominated for Best Casual Game! Until then, check out what's happening with DyC on the forums, and post your ideas about how to make it even better! - Read/Post Comments -]]> 1240281534 http://www.xgenstudios.com/ Bunnies invade again... These Hero's Arms are for choppin'...]]> Robyn Fri, 10 Apr 2009 00:08:01 -0500 Happy Easter from XGen! Celebrate the occasion with the traditional act of filling bunnies with hot lead. Bunny Invasion - Easter Special has arrived! Slash some baddies, explore some dungeons and collect the coins -- Hero's Arms promises some extensive Adventuring RPG fun. Defend Your Castle on the iPhone and iPod Touch is close to a reality, keep an eye on XGen for word of the official release! - Read/Post Comments -]]> 1239340081 http://www.xgenstudios.com/ Robyn Wed, 01 Apr 2009 00:01:04 -0500 We hope you enjoyed this year's April Fools Shenanigans, we certainly did. Stick Arena Ballistick should be back to normal soon, so you can get back to serious fragging. - Read/Post Comments -]]> 1238562064 http://www.xgenstudios.com/ Spate! Stem the tide!... GDC09 - This week... W00t, we found him...]]> Robyn Tue, 24 Mar 2009 14:46:59 -0500 Spate! Overflow! Stem the tide of boxes, push back those infernal crates! XGen's own Cody "eedok" Hollis-Perdue brings us his addicting little side-project: Spate! Try not to get addicted... GDC 09 started yesterday, and XGen is attending again! If you're headed down to San Francisco you might be lucky enough to catch a demoing of the brand new Defend Your Castle iPhone version! After many long years of searching, he has been found. By who else but Google; masters of the search! - Read/Post Comments -]]> 1237924019 http://www.xgenstudios.com/ Skye Fri, 13 Mar 2009 16:51:43 -0500 This past Thursday, at a press conference held at Radical Entertainment in Vancouver BC, Electric Playground co-host Victor Lucas announced Defend Your Castle among the list of titles Nominated for this year’s 3rd Annual Elan Awards. Click here for the press release The WiiWare edition of Defend Your Castle has been selected for a shot at the Best Casual / Arcade Game category in this year’s event, to be held April 25th at the Fairmont Vancouver. A big thank-you to everyone who has supported our fledgling entry into the console space – keep your fingers crossed! - Read/Post Comments - ]]> 1236981103