Splosion Man is a gameplay-oriented platformer that plays at being a hectic action fest, but is really a puzzle-driven exercise in clever level design. There’s definitely an emphasis on skill here, but the combination of accessibility and the deliberative pacing as you learn to outsmart each level makes Splosion Man a thinking man’s platformer.

Microsoft has announced the return of Summer of Arcade, and one of the featured games will be Splosion Man. The multiplayer cooperative game from The Maw developer Twisted Pixel still has no specific release date, but the announcement was accompanied by the news that the game will be playable at E3. Twisted Pixel originally announced [...]