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2008-03-26 :: Switchball Xbox 360 |
| Switchball, originally released on November 7, 2007, will be re-released with a title update today. The update will address the "graphic tearing", speed up the leaderboards and some other minor issues. |
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2008-01-02 :: Switchball wins Game of the Year Award |
Team Xbox gives Switchball the Best Xbox Live Arcade Game of the year 2007 Award! Read more about it here
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2007-11-06 :: Switchball XBLA Release |
Switchball XBLA is released and available at Live Arcade this wednesday, 2007-11-07.
The game has been reviewed at TeamXbox. "Now, with Switchball Sierra Online is bringing us what may go down in history as The Greatest Ball Game Ever", a 9.4/10 review which can be found here. |
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2007-09-21 :: Switchball PC Reviews |
Switchball has been getting some great reviews since the release!
PC Gamer UK
"There's something immediately intriguing about the little rock clanging around rails and tubes; and a fatal swerve elicits a gasp of dismay in a way that hitting zero health in an FPS doesn't." 7.9/10
GameFAQs
"Enter Switchball, an absolutely beautiful game where you must adapt to your environment to proceed." 8/10
Out of Eight PC Game Reviews
"Switchball shows how a puzzle game should be done: simple yet fun and challenging" 7/8
Gamer.no
"Vi kan aldri få nok hjernetrim, og Switchball leverer varene på en svært intelligent måte." 7/10
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2007-09-14 :: Atomic Elbow recieves Business Award |
Atomic Elbow has received the very prestigious "ALMIs Företagarpris" award, at the SBA (Sundsvall Business Awards) gala held yesterday at Södra Berget in Sundsvall, Sweden.
The jurys motivation was (translated to English):
"Atomic Elbow AB has during the past couple of years worked on an idea that was born when the company founders studied together in Kramfors. An exciting and successful company has evolved from this school project. Atomic Elbow have today managed to commercialize their computer game internationally, and to different gaming platforms. In the company's continuing development, there's room for both new competence in a technical field that is both popular and expanding together with totally new game ideas."
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2007-08-16 :: News from E3 regarding Switchball |
Switchball got awarded 'Best XBLA Game' at TeamXbox’s Best of E3 2007 Awards
Also, at this year's E3 Microsoft presented some upcoming titles for XBLA, where Switchball was mentioned. Movie here. |
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2007-08-16 :: Switchball XBLA |
| Sierra has now made it official that Switchball will be released for XBLA. Final release date is yet to be announced. |
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2007-07-27 :: Buying Switchball from outside the US |
| We have noticed that some customers that are not US residents have had problems buying Switchball. For customers living outside the US we recommend buying Switchball from this site. |
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2007-06-26 :: Switchball Released! |
| Today Atomic Elbows first title Switchball was Released! The game is now available for download. Click here to go to the official site where you can download the full game and learn more about its features.
The game won the Swedish Game Awards 2005 and has been nominated for IGF 2006 in the technical excellence class. We hope you enjoy playing the game as much as we've enjoyed developing it since the project started in tiny Kramfors 2004. |
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2007-06-26 :: Switchball Downloadable Trial |
| With one day left to the Release of Switchball, the Switchball Trial is now available for download! Click here to go directly to the download page. |
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2007-05-31 :: Atomic Elbow website remake |
| Welcome to the new Atomic Elbow website. For the upcoming release of Switchball, we decided to update the website with a fresh look and with our all new logo. The new site is also a lot easier to update, so you can look forward to more frequent updates from now on. Make sure you check out the Games section for new Screenshots of Switchball, enjoy! |
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2007-05-31 :: Switchball close to Release |
| The upcoming release of Switchball is getting close, current release date is set to June. Click here to check out Switchball in the Games section and learn more about this amazing puzzle game! |
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2007-05-31 :: Swedish Radio interview with Atomic Elbow game designer |
| Swedish Radio interviews Game Designer and Atomic Elbow Partner Fredrik Erlandsson on the games industry in general and the process off starting up a video game company. The interview is in Swedish only, click here
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2007-05-31 :: Switchball featured in Swedish Newspaper (Sydsvenskan) |
| Switchball was featured in Sydsvenskan while Atomic Elbow was attending the Nordic Game conference in Malmo. Read more at the Sydvenskan website (In Swedish only). Click here. |
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