Two Worlds didn't exactly make SouthPeak a household name, and we're willing to bet
Roogoo won't either (oh well, there's always
Ninjatown). But the North Carolina publisher has thankfully taken a step back from last year's
grandiose flop and teamed with developer SpiderMonk Entertainment to release a simpler project,
Roogoo. The game title lacks any coherent meaning, until you consider that gameplay is based on the simple concept of matching different-shaped blocks to corresponding holes -- an exercise many of us practiced back in diapers. And so, "roogoo" is perhaps a nod to those days of gurgling baby-speak.
In development for Xbox Live Arcade and Windows,
Roogoo is better described as a puzzle game which "tasks players with guiding meteors in the form of shaped blocks though a series of rotating disks as a means of saving planet Roo and the entire Roogoo race."
Didn't you know? Your parents were training you to one day save a doomed alien race!
Roogoo is slated for release this April.
[Via press release]
{ Feb 12th 2008 at 4:26PM } 
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
kinshadow @ Feb 12th 2008 4:54PM
Roogoo = Carebares + Satan
kinshadow @ Feb 12th 2008 4:55PM
That should be Carebears ... forgive my Freudian nudity
JakubK666 @ Feb 12th 2008 5:03PM
Another Fox New Report: 'SixSixSix'box? :P
Ben @ Feb 12th 2008 5:08PM
I believe it's Xbox 36660 (pronounced Xbox Three-six-six-sixty).
Ben @ Feb 12th 2008 5:06PM
Last two screenshots looked Mario Galaxy-ish, but cartoony as well, hmm... Looks like those things babies play with where they have to put the square block in the square hole and the circle in the circle, I believe the poster was referring to that archaic puzzle game too.
Ralph @ Feb 12th 2008 6:24PM
looks like Stewie from Family Guy.
T.G @ Feb 12th 2008 10:35PM
I think the crazy bears look cute.
onedollarwilliam @ Feb 13th 2008 8:02AM
It looks to be a casual puzzle game, and when you consider that the most popular casual games consist of things like color matching and ball bouncing the shape fitter isn't such a bad choice. I wouldn't be surprised if this does really well.