Boom Blox
Why Angry Birds succeeds where Boom Blox failed
As Blake reported last week, the mobile phone game Angry Birds is coming to consoles. Having finally gotten a phone that can play the thing, I forked over my 99 cents to see what all the fuss has been about. My first reaction: “It’s Boom Blox in 2D!” If you’re one of the few people who bought the fun and overlooked Spielberg/EA project (or its sequel), you might experience the same de...
EA uses Spielberg to frighten coax Wii owners
Boom Blox Bash Party is available now for $49.99 on Wii.
Infendo Radio 134 – Boom Blox Bash Party, Need For Speed: Nitro, the number 1 game of 2008, and Wii 2
This week Sean and I cover Boom Blox Bash Party, Need For Speed: Nitro, the number 1 game of 2008, and Wii 2. Take a listen and hear what’s new. Radio Feed iTunes Feed MP3 Be sure to leave some comments or give us a call on the Infendo Radio Hotline: 206-338-BIGN (206-338-2446) after the show! Podcast: Play in new window | Download (37.9MB)Subscribe: Google Podcasts | Email | RSS
Boom Blox sequel blasts Friend Codes to smithereens
Quick update about this week’s Boom Blox Blast Party announcement from EA: No Friend Codes. Share your creations and destroy them with friends without Nintendo’s overprotective Friend Code system, according to an interview at MTV Multiplayer.
Boom Blox Bash Party delivers more multiplayer this spring
EA and Steven Spielberg announced this week that Boom Blox, one of the unsung heroes to grace the Wii in 2008, will receive the sequel treatment sometime this spring According to an EA release, Boom Blox Bash Party will featuring 400 new levels and more multiplayer. From an Infendo perspective, I know the community feel was one of the things that got David all hot and bothered about the original. ...
Infendo’s Holiday Gift Guide 2008 Edition
Looking for that right gift for that Nintendo fan big or small? Not sure what to get your grandma who is interested in the Nintendo Wii? Got a little nephew who is into anime and role playing games but you’re not sure what would be the best gift for him? Well come on in and check out what I have personally dug up (with suggestions from the fellow Infendo crew and my personal friends) to help...
Variety confirms Boom Blox sequel coming
Christmas has come early for David. In an article about the closure of Electronic Arts’ undisclosed Blueprint project, Variety confirmed a Boom Blox sequel is in development. Blueprint was at the helm of the Boom Blox sequel, which has shifted to EA’s merged casual/Sims label. Blueprint was focused on bringing new IP to multiple media. According to Variety, “some called it a proj...
EA: Boom Blox approaches 500,000 sold
To bomb or not to bomb, that is the question. In Boom Blox’s case, popular opinion said it was a failure. Pundits still stuck in the old 1990’s video game mindset said it was an epic fail when it didn’t sell 1,000,000,000,000 units in its first week, and then EA fired back, saying it was pleased with the modest sales, and expected more in the future. Now the publisher is more tha...
Steady sales help Boom Blox beat anti-hype
Boom Blox failed the midterm, but it just might pass the final. Sales tracking Web site VGChartz is reporting Boom Blox, Electronic Arts’ critically acclaimed Wii exclusive, has sold approximately 250K copies worldwide in its first two months on store shelves. The figures also suggest Boom Blox may have long legs at retail. It has sold no less than 11,000 copies each week in North America, a...
This week’s Japanese video game sales are a harbinger of things to come
Forgive me a moment for being so pompous, and for the unabashedly bombastic headline. I’m in full fanman mode this week, and I smell blood. First, as the link demonstrates, it was in defense of the beleaguered, but soon to be wildly successful, Boom Blox. Now, it’s with a follow-up: an accurate real-world depiction of just how powerful Nintendo’s slow cooker game strategy is, and...
Counterpoint: Boom Blox didn’t fail nothin’
I’m reading a really good book right now, called Predictably Irrational. The first chapter is about how we humans tend to assign “anchors” to things, like price, and how we start to base future decisions off of our first impressions, even if at second glance those decisions start to look pretty stupid (I should probably dust off my copy of Strunk and White, too, after re-reading ...
Analyst: Wii fails Boom Blox’s “true test”
With his celestial voice, Freddy Mercury once belted the words, “Another one bites the dust.” Nearly three decades later, the meaning of the prophetic lyric is clear. The latest NPD sales figures show Boom Blox, EA’s critically acclaimed collaboration with filmmaker Steven Spielberg, sold a paltry 60,000 copies in May. As with Zack & Wiki, No More Heroes and Okami, it is disa...
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