KickFlip preview

As promised, here's a preview of KickFlip our new skateboarding game. This game is incredibly challenging and addictive. Our friends at Stimunation really outdid themselves this time and I am having a ton of fun "testing" it, that's for sure.

The gameplay is pretty straight-forward, pull as many tricks as possible to advance through levels. Something new for us, though, is that KickFlip features it's own soundtrack that you can control. You're going to love it!

Look for KickFlip next week, for now just check this video!

First Look at Fire & Ice

If you're anything like me, you grew up on classic 2D platform games like Super Mario Bros. and Sonic the Hedgehog. As much as I love the current-gen games like Madden Football, Paper Mario, Guitar Hero and Rainbow 6 Vegas, those classic games have a very special place in my heart!

Given that, I'm very excited to present our next game (which will be out tomorrow): Fire & Ice

Fire & Ice is a classic side-scrolling adventure game that feels like it jumped right out of 1987 and onto our site. The game is simple, you have to squash your enemies, avoid falling off cliffs and defeat bosses to advance through a ton of stages. By finding special pick-ups, your character will switch from "Fire" to "Ice." It's up to you to switch at the right time to max your score.

What's the best part of this game? Well, you're old enough now that you don't have to save up your allowance for it and your mom won't be nearby telling you to get back to your homework (of course, your boss may have something to say about it...)

I've created a Flickr slideshow of some screens below, if you're having trouble viewing it you can click here.

The story behind "Snow Grind"

Exciting news, everybody, we're about to launch our newest game -- Snow Grind. Doesn't it just seem perfect that in the middle of July we'd decide to launch our newest Snowboarding game?? I know, timing has never really been our thing... but there is a good reason!

As most of you know (and if you don't, welcome to the Candystand Blog for the first time!), we've been upgrading and redoing many of our classic games. One of the games on the list to "touch up" is 3D Snowboarding.

3D Snowboarding does have it's charm (the "Missy" in the game is supposed my wife and the "Drew" is one of my best friends from college... and yes, I absolutely know how incredibly lame that is; I'm just trying to be honest!), but we do realize that the game pretty much stinks... and Candystand's Snowboarding games really shouldn't stink.

So, with some help from our friends at Fuel we started from scratch and cranked out what I think is a very solid game called Snow Grind. In Snow Grind, you have to trick your way down the hill and rack up as many style points as possible. It's fun and you'll have it on Thursday.

In other news that's relevant for summer, our new Downhill Skiing will also be done in the next week or so!

Tomorrow, I'll give you a full run-down of all of the games we're launching this week. Block out your Thursday because we have lots of new stuff set to launch!

Two New Games!

Well --- you all probably know by now that we launched GP Team Racing and Darts Challenge yesterday. Sorry, didn't have a chance to post yesterday.

While Darts is a redo of one of our older games, GP Racing (Airwaves Ducati Team Racing on Candystand UK) is a brand, spanking new game built by our friends at Silent Bay Studios in Italy. I think you'll agree that this is one of our best racing games, yet..... and I do mean "yet" as we've got some more racing titles cooking that are going to be hot!

As always, check out the new games and tell me what you think.

On a separate note, our Tournament Testers will be working hard testing next week and Candystand Tournaments will be released by the beginning of August (if not sooner!!)

Have a great weekend!

Air Hockey Extreme launched

I hope everyone had a happy and safe 4th. It was a little wet here in New Jersey, but I managed to put away plenty of hot dogs! .... right, right, I know.... you don't care!

It's tough to get back in the swing of things for 2 more days of work. So, we've launched the new version of Air Hockey, entitled `Air Hockey Extreme' that we hope give you something to keep busy with rather than working! You'll find the gameplay to be very similar to the old version, but we've updated the graphics and physics quite a bit. Check it out, tell me what you think and enjoy!

Click here to play Air Hockey Extreme!