The Maw coming to XBLA next week

By Robert Purchese Published 13 January, 2009

Indie champ with blobs and aliens.

Twisted Pixel Games will be offering The Maw on Xbox Live Arcade from Wednesday 21st January.

This action-adventure outing costs 800 Microsoft Points (GBP 6.80 / EUR 9.60) and puts players in charge of alien Frank, who happens to be best friends with Maw, a leashed blob that eats and grows.

Guiding the hungry beast around forms the central theme of the game, which also boasts plenty of puzzles plus a full and pretty 3D world to solve them in.

As a mark of quality, The Maw was picked out as a Penny Arcade Expo (PAX 10) Audience Choice Award winner, and also an Independent Games Festival (IGF) 2009 finalist. Can't be too rubbish, then.

We'll offer our thoughts soon. Until then, head over to The Maw gallery for the latest screenshots.

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About Robert Purchese

Bertie is Eurogamer's Senior Staff Writer. When he's not hunting down news stories he's often found playing with his kids or gabbling about fantasy games and strange online worlds.

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