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Block stacking taken to outrageous extremes with Big Box of Blox!

Just enough time to post the press release and then off to work with 75 children! :)

THE MIDLANDS, UK - June 29th 2006 - Astraware and Digital Eel are excited to announce the release of Big Box of Blox for Palm OS(R) and Windows Mobile(R) handhelds.

Big Box of Blox is a block stacking game taken to outrageous extremes! Using stylus or button controls, players arrange the three-blox-high stacks as they fall. Match blox in groups of three or more, vertically or horizontally, to eliminate them - but that's not all!

Don't just stack the blox. Smash them, blast them, mutate them or explode them in a shower of flames! Use special blox including jokers, bombs, frogs, mushrooms, fireballs and slot machines to clear the board before it reaches the top!

Choose from five exciting game modes: Flaming Peelout, Blok Atak, Groink, Mushroom King and Asylum Cubez or even create your own combination using the special Custom Mode. Faithful to the critically-acclaimed PC version, Big Box of Blox features cool psychedelic graphics, awe-inspiring animated backgrounds, brain crunching sound effects and an epic music soundtrack. The game's graphics reflect the dark and mysterious nature of the PC original, but PDA owners are sometimes known to go outside into the light, so Big Box of Blox also includes a gamma adjustment slider so you can select anywhere from dark and atmospheric to vibrant and acidic.

"We originally intended to make a nice normal blox stacking game, however, we failed to accomplish this goal marvelously. Big Box of Blox is anything but normal," explained Digital Eel co-founder, Rich Carlson.

Big Box of Blox is available for devices running Palm OS(R) 5.0 upwards, and Windows Mobile(R) for Pocket PC and Smartphone 2003, 2003SE and 5.0. The game is available from the Astraware website priced $19.95 with a special limited time release discount for Club Astraware members.

More info here!

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Pocketbrain

zoopa! Ever since Tetris and Klax, the block stacker has been a staple, but has been lacking in new blood. Is this the next craze?

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jrdaigle1000

Nice,but I won't pay $19.95 for it.I have the demo of the game Snails and it is very limited,but the demo was free.

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w3iner

Games like these are often over priced. Overpriced considering games similar to this can be gotten for other OS for free.

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kparikh82276

I agree with W3iner and jrdaigle1000

These games are too over priced.

But i guess it can't hurt to check it out.

I've been using the demo version for Bejewled 2 that came w/ the axim programs. I wanted to buy it but i just wasn't sold that it was worth 19.95 --> i might pay $5 for it. only b/c i believe that's how much it should cost!

i think games are over priced over all. $5 bucks is suffice!!! lets hear them say...

jhelfer

Originally Posted by kparikh82276

I i think games are over priced over all. $5 bucks is suffice!!! lets hear them say...

I would buy many more games at a <$10 price point, than $20.

That said, I wouldn't mind paying >$20 for a game if it was something that I was pretty sure I would play many times over the course of years.

On the other hand, I have no idea how a programmer can release apps at around $5 a license and not starve to death.....

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dgoldring

I agree. Most of the time, when I buy a game, it lasts for a few weeks and then I have either finished it or gotten bored with it. $20 for a few weeks (max) entertainment is just not worth it. Most games are worth $5-10 max to me. It is a rare game that I feel I got my money's worth. (Even Atomic Cannon, which is an update of my favorite OC game, scorched earth, was too much money for me at $20).

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able_onar

I might pay more for a game with a LOT of content, but for "quickie" games $5 is my limit too.

Hey, maybe someone should post a poll?

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What's in YOUR pocket?

phendric

Originally Posted by jrdaigle1000

Nice,but I won't pay $19.95 for it.I have the demo of the game Snails and it is very limited,but the demo was free.

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Hey! Your rabbit (or the rabbit in your avatar) looks just like the rabbit I used to have. Is it a Dutch Dwarf?

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$20 for a tetris-like game, even if it is on steroids, seems like a lot. I could see paying that, though, if you were the type of person that loves tetris (I just forked out $20 on Atomic Cannons - that game is quite fun)...

Phillip