Hothead's Swarm arriving next week

DeathSpank developer Hothead will unleash a horde of "pudgy blue morons" next week with the launch of "action-platformer" Swarm.

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DeathSpank developer Hothead's latest unusual protagonists, a group of "50 pudgy blue morons," will make their debut next week when the "action-platformer" Swarm launches on Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3.

It'll hit PlayStation Network on March 22 and Xbox Live Arcade on March 23, Hothead announced on Twitter over the weekend. The European PSN release, however, will be on March 30.

Swarm gives players control fifty Swarmites to guide through hazard-filled levels, controlling the Swarm as a whole rather than individually. While some of the bumbling fools will accidentally die after failing to avoid the numerous explosions, buzzsaws, poison gas and other death traps, you'll also be callously killing the blue blighters to solve puzzles and even to keep your score multiplier going. Online leaderboards will keep track of scores for individual levels.

Point your peepers at our hands-on preview and this recent fine gameplay trailer for more about Swarm.

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    March 14, 2011 12:30 PM

    Comment on Hothead's Swarm arriving next week, by Alice O'Connor.

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      March 14, 2011 12:36 PM

      Sounds like a more masochistic version of Pikmin.

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      March 14, 2011 12:41 PM

      The quicklook for this made it look pretty fun.

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      March 14, 2011 1:55 PM

      I played a little of it at PAX. It's definitely a fun little game and wish I could have played more.

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        March 15, 2011 10:15 AM

        Does the game play similarly to Lemmings?

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      March 14, 2011 2:14 PM

      I'd love to get it, but after Hothead wasn't able to fix game-destroying in the second DeathSpank game, I'm not going to buy anything else of theirs.

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