Hard to think that Arrowhead Game Studios and Paradox Interactive's game of madness Magicka is only a year old, however just an hour ago RedYellowBlueGreen tweeted that to celebrate the 'kicking and screaming birth' of Magicka, they are giving everyone something confusing, the Spell Confusion.
Magicka to this year has sold 1.3 million copies of the game and it's expansion Magicka: Vietnam has also gone on to sell more than 500,000 copies and various DLC available for the Magicka universe has been downloaded over 4 million times, not to mention the game has parodied not only other great titles such as Skyrim but, Star Trek , Warhammer, even giant purple tentacles with world conquering prospects.
Arrowhead are working on it's third expansion The Other Side of the Coin, keeping with it's darker tones used in it's latest, The Stars are Left, this time mocking my oh so favourite Castlevania, with a new cast of characters to play
A press release was given on the Magicka website which can be found below
NEW YORK – January 27, 2012 – Paradox Interactive and Arrowhead Game Studios today announced that smash hit indie game Magicka has reached the one year mark and that the core game has sold 1.3 million copies to date, proving that obliteration of your friends by “accidental” typos is more fun than a lightning bolt to the face.Source: RedYellowBlueGreen Magickagame.com
That is, unless it’s a lightning bolt to your friend’s face in which case it’s 10 out of 10 on the fun scale. Magicka: Vietnam has also gone on to sell more than 500,000 copies and various DLC available for the Magicka universe has been downloaded over 4 million times.
To mark the occasion, the developers have cooked up a new Magick that will be free for all bathrobe wearing adventurers; the Confuse spell.
Or wait, perhaps I’m confused and the devs said I was going to dress in a bathrobe and they’d cook me. No, wait a second… devs don’t cook people, goblins do. So does that mean the developers are goblins? I’m so confused, who cast this spell on me?! In any case, it’s confusing yet impressive that a small studio of goblins—I mean developers, were able to create such a successful game. We’re not complaining, and we hope you aren’t either, or else we’ll cook you!
And since this is a Magicka press release, we’d like to shamelessly plug the next Magicka expansion, The Other Side of the Coin. In this latest addition to the Magicka universe, slated for release later this spring, wizards will trade in their hats and robes for black capes with giant 70’s collars as they take on the role of the “bad guys” by controlling Alucart the vampire and commanding his legion of necromancers.
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