Roogoo to puzzle on XBLA, PC

by James Ransom-Wiley { Feb 12th 2008 at 4:26PM }

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]

Gallery: Roogoo

Tags: roogoo, southpeak, spidermonk, xbla

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.