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Cows vs Aliens Barnyard Blitz Mooooves Onto the App Store
Toronto, Ontario –
December 12, in the year of our Lord 2012 – Crowned the
“Most Innovative Game” by the ‘Best App Ever’ awards 2012 for
the Android Division, the blockbuster hit Cows vs. Aliens by XMG
Studio Inc. finally get’s a sequel: Cows vs Aliens: Barnyard
Blitz! The action-packed, fan-favorite with 3+ million
downloads, impresses with a striking new art style, UI, and
player progression flow, while sticking to the addictive push
mechanic to save the cows from the aliens. The players’ fingers
manipulate the cows and aliens the opposite of how a magnet
would, and – if done right – herd cute cows in the barn and
push annoying aliens off the cliffs. For now, fans can use up to
four fingers on the iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad, with an Android
launch to follow suit soon. While the premise stays the same,
the game itself is completely fresh, mostly thanks to a complete
re-vamp of the entire player progression flow: the new cow
herdsmen only have 60 seconds to steer the cows to safety, fill
up the combo meter to activate boosts and get the high score in
the weekly tournaments to win prizes! Click here
http://bit.ly/CowsVsAliensBarnyardBlitz to download the
game.
“Once we had decided to stick with the game controls and main
characters, we spent our time perfecting the addictive push
mechanic and re-imagining the game flow,” says Ray Sharma,
Founder and President of XMG Studio Inc. “The result is amazing:
the controls in Cows vs Aliens: Barnyrad Blitz just feel really
good, and there’s something very fun about pushing around a herd
of cows — our heifers will have you hooked in minutes!”
Cows vs. Aliens: Barnyard Blitz is a great pick-up and play game
that appeals to both the casual and serious gamer. While the
process of playing is easy at first, those going for higher
scores will find it challenging and addictive as the herding
continues. The heavy leader-board focus, where players compete
for weekly prizes, gives a stage to all gamers that long to
show-off their mad cow-farming skills. To stay competitive,
players will soon learn to strategically place and use their 9
collectable multilevel super combo boosts to maximize their high
scores and show their friends who is top cow.
The prequel to Cows vs Aliens: Barnyard Blitz was created over a
weekend Hackathon by a team of XMG staffers. The concept was
developed within 48 hours and after a month of polishing, the
cows and aliens were let loose on the App Store. The aim of Cows
vs. Aliens is to save herds of cows from invading aliens by
pushing the cows safely into the barn and keeping the aliens
out. Once launched in the App Store February 2011, Cows vs.
Aliens was quickly picked up and featured by Apple in the iTunes
home page and critically acclaimed. In August 2011, the
addictive herding game was launched in the Android Market and
has been downloaded more than 3+ million times on iOS and
Android since.