Evil Scum News

And the Winner Is...

Wed, 16 Dec 2009 00:20:51 -0800

Micah's Rolando 2 just won a 2009 Macworld Gem Award for Best Platform Game! Woot!

Robocalypse: Mobile Mayhem is GO!

Fri, 18 Sep 2009 12:18:28 -0700

Robocalypse - Mobile Mayhem is now available at the App Store. Finally, a reason to buy an iPhone!

Go! Buy! Play! Love!

IGN LOVES Rolando 2!

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 21:59:48 -0700

Micah's first iPhone game, Rolando 2 just arrived at the App Store, and IGN LOVES it!

9.0!

WOW!!!

Rolando 2 is coming!

Mon, 8 Jun 2009 13:27:54 -0700

At last it can be told! Micah recently wrote Rolando 2: Quest for the Golden Orchid, the sequel to the highly rated, best-selling game for iPhone. Watch for it later this summer!

Robocalypse: Mobile Mayhem

Tue, 19 May 2009 21:23:46 -0700

Today, Vogster announced Robocalypse: Mobile Mayhem, an enhanced version of the original Robocalypse, made specifically for... iPhone!

We're giving you a second chance, world! Don't blow it this time!

Nintendo Power!

Thu, 16 Apr 2009 23:13:03 -0700

Nobody ever told us, but apparently we were nominated for a Nintendo Power award for our writing on Robocalypse!!

Only... we didn't get it. Not knowing until months after the fact takes a little of the sting out. Here are the finalists. It must means something that Robocalypse was the only English-language game that was nominated--but we're not sure what, exactly:

Best Story/Writing:
33%: The World Ends With You
21%: Chrono Trigger
7%: Dragon Quest IV: Chapters of the Chosen
19%: No More Heroes
17%: Professor Layton and the Curious Village
3%: Robocalypse

Are we disappointed? Heck, no! Given the sales figures for Robocalypse, 3% of the votes may actually represent 100% of the people who purchased the game--who else, but Evil Scum, can guarantee that level of customer satisfaction?

Robocalypse: Beaver Defense is coming!

Wed, 8 Apr 2009 14:37:26 -0700

At last it can be told: the sequel to Robocalypse will be available as a WiiWare download beginning June 30th!

Or, as Kotaku.com puts it:

The one thing missing from last year's Nintendo DS real-time-strategy title Robocalpyse had to be an evil beaver. Developer Vogster rectifies this oversight with Robocalpyse: Beaver Defense, a tower defense title coming to WiiWare.

While the gameplay was okay, the truly unique humor of the title made it stand out, and the franchise's WiiWare outing should follow suit, with the return of writing team supreme Jay Lender and Micah Wright. This time around the game is tower defense, with upgradeable skills, weapons, hero units and defenses aiding the player as waves of enemies rush his or her headquarters.

"We are excited to deliver Robocalypse - Beaver Defense as a convenient and accessible WiiWare download," said Alan Martin, Producer at Vogster Entertainment. "Written by Jay Lender (SpongeBob Squarepants) and Micah Wright, the story is hilarious and offers a fitting back drop for this fast-paced, tongue-in-cheek game where the player must thwart the plans of a maniacal beaver."

I do believe I have spent my entire life waiting for my chance to thwart a maniacal beaver. I can probably hold out until the game hits WiiWare this summer, but only just.

Still evil after all these months.

Thu, 12 Mar 2009 11:27:31 -0700

It's been a long time since we've published an update, but that's because we've been hard at work on our projects for Vogster, various jobs for Activision, finishing up the first part of our graphic novel, Duster, and watching the world economy implode around us.

Rest assured that we're still chugging evilly along, and will be doling out more info about what we've been up to as projects are announced.

More fun with Vogster!

Fri, 28 Nov 2008 13:24:17 -0800

Evil Scum just signed for TWO new projects with our friends at Vogster, the makers of Robocalypse. What will the new projects be? We're not telling... yet.

Destroy All Humans! Path of the Furon Release Date!

Wed, 12 Nov 2008 09:29:57 -0800

The long delayed "Destroy All Humans! Path of the Furon" will finally be making its debut next month. Will it confirm us as the preeminent comedy-science-fiction writers in the games industry (for what it's worth) or send us spinning back to obscurity? (That's relative obscurity within the total obscurity of videogame writing in general.) Is anyone even paying attention to Crypto at this point? We'll know on December 1, 2008.