The second annual Free Gaming Festival was held in Rotterdam last saturday, July 18th 2009. Rocket Riot was on display in Xbox tent with a whopping 5 Rocket Riot demo pods! Big crowds gathered around 12 a.m. as the Rocket Riot competitions started! The stakes were high because there were t-shirts and posters to be won! Some people stepped up to the challenge and did the best they could and some people went a step beyond and practiced for an hour before even entering the competition! Now that’s dedication!

Here is a video of some footage we shot during the competition. Please set it to high quality to read the text in the video.

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Tomorrow (July 18th) is the second edition of the Free Gaming Festival in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. The organisation behind the festival was kind enough to provide us with five demo pods on the show floor where everybody will be able to play Rocket Riot! We are in good company with other demo pods for Red Faction: Guerilla, Fight Night Round 4, Gears of War 2 and Fuel! In fact, we have more demo pods than those big, expensive games!

There will be a Rocket Riot competition between 4 and 6 p.m. for some very cool, exclusive Rocket Riot swag! So if you think you’re the best Rocket Riot player around sign up and compete!

Check out the sweet set-up they gave us:

So if you live in Holland: come to the Free Gaming Festival and check out our setup. Some of us will be there walking around and hanging out so come say hello (hint: check for the people with Rocket Riot t-shirts!).

Free Gaming Festival website

We did a short interview with Game-Pad.net about Rocket Riot!

Check it out here: Rocket Riot Developer Interview

Thanks for the interview, Charles!

P.S. They also changed the background of the site to a Rocket Riot background! How awesome is that?!

It’s been busy since the release of Rocket Riot! Here are some more reviews!

My Gamer review

Gamespot review

Gamesradar review

Very nice scores! Our average Metacritic score seems to be settling in around 8.2 with a whopping 9.5 average user score! Check it out!

Cheers!

The Rocket Riot team

Rocket Riot was featured on the Negative Gamer podcast a while ago and we think they had the best quote for describing just how fun Rocket Riot is:

When thinking of Rocket Riot, here’s what you need to do to imagine what Rocket Riot is like: get a bath, like a regular bath at home, fill it with jelly, it can be any type of jelly you want just as long as it’s some kind of jelly. And you get a really attractive person to sit in the jelly with you and you just stay there playing with the jelly for about half an hour. That is how much fun Rocket Riot is.

Listen to the rest of the podcast here: NGCast Episode 30: Sweatcastin’

Thanks for the wonderful comments, guys!

The Rocket Riot team