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Hi folks,

Co-optimus

Our good friends over at Co-optimus are organizing a Madballs Co-op night to celebrate our first free weekend!  And they’re even giving away some MiBI skin codes to some lucky participants.

So - we know y’all were going to play this weekend anyway - so lets join up with them and make Saturday night all about MiBI Co-op!  As you know, with both B*D*I and Scorched Campaigns, and the Night of the Chompiis’ Survival Mode - MiBI has tons of co-op fun to be enjoyed!

So, to join in with us:

• Step 1:  Join the Co-optimus Steam group here.  It’s the best way to learn about all the cool co-op events that they organize
• Step 2:  Sign up for the Madballs Free Promo play event here.

Here’s a bit more info… link.

See you online on Saturday!

Paul.
[PS - Any many thanks to our friends at Co-optimus, who've always been big supports of Babo and all its associated madness ]

Hi folks,

Free Weekend

We’re pleased to announce that at long-last, our Steam Free Weekend is a go!

For those who don’t know, this is a week-end where our game is completely free to play on Steam for anyone to try!  Sure, we’ve always had a free demo for MiBI - but it’s limited to single player.  On a free weekend, everyone gets access to the full-game - full-campaign and full multiplayer!

There’s no better chance to try our little indie hit Madballs in…Babo:Invasion (79 Metacritic), and it will be on sale too (75% off!) - so there’s no better time to buy it either!

The free week-end is *this* week-end - April 16th - 18th.

To ramp things up this week, we’ve got new missions for you!

• Community Maps - in addition to the Pinch Point map that you guys are well on the way to unlocking, we also have the new Refinery map
• New skins - and we continue with 3 new Clan skins to earn: Clan Robo, Clan Magmor, and Clan Eidolon!

As a special request/favour, we ask that anyone who has hosted dedicated servers before consider hosting one for this week-end…  if things go as planned, there will be tons of folks trying out our game this week-end - and we’d like as many of them to be able to play as possible!  Thanks a bunch!

Anyway, we thank all of your for your continued support of Babo:Invasion…  we hope that this free week-end adds tons of new Cubes for y’all to play with!  Be sure to tell your friends!

Paul.

Pinch Point

Pinch Point

Teams from the B*D*I and Scorched factions wind up as finalists in the Gazinators’ Interstellar Championship Games; an infamous televised blood sport of action and carnage. The Gazers promise a prize of Terracite ore so vast, it is sure to shift the war in the winning faction’s favor. With nowhere to hide, and nowhere to run, the only way to survive is to attack the enemy head-on - at the Pinch Point.

Refinery

Refinery

In a desperate but vital move, the Scorched invade a steaming hot, slag-filled, BDI food processing plant. If the Scorched can wrest control of the facility they will be able to feed their army of baby Moltoks into an unstoppable crushing army of Colossal Magmors. But what they discover is truly terrifying: Soylent Green is Babos!

On March 29th we released Babo Crash, our twisted take on a match-3 puzzle game.  We’re pleased to report that response has been awesome - here’s a quick summary of what people are saying:

“Bejeweled on Steroids!” - AppModo
“Absolute must download” - 94% - Gamers’ Temple
“Visual ballet of gem destruction” - 4/5 - Touch Gen
“Fun, addictive…should not be looked over” - 4/5 - Apple.ism
“Editors Choice Award” - 9/10 - BuyMeAnIPhone.com
“Great twist on the Match-3 gameplay” - 3/4 - Slide to Play
“Surprising and addictive…hard to put down” - Beatweek
“Adds excitement back into the genre” - Touch Arcade
“Kick a*s” “Bejeweled on acid” - iGameRadio
“Loads of fun” - AppShouter
“Not your Grandma’s Match 3 Game!” - Crazy Mike’s Apps
“Graphics are awesome…great departure from the ordinary” - 148apps.com
“Grab it” - TouchMyApps.com
“A very refreshing match three experience…a bargain for only $1″ - Appolicious
“The gameplay is the hammer! Absolutely perfect!” - Apfelbiss

[Admittedly we don't fully understand that last quote (which is a google translation from the original German review) -- it sounds positive to us though! ]

Babo Crash is available for iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad and Android. Check it out!

You can also try the PC version of the game - it’s included in Madballs in…Babo:Invasion (even the free demo version!).  Click here to play!