Super Little Acorns 3D Turbo – Review Roundup

Ok, so Super Little Acorns 3D Turbo has been out a few weeks now, so I thought I would take a moment to round up all our favourite reviews. So here they are : Nintendo Fuse – 9.5/10 Nintendo Feed – 9/10 Darkain Arts – 9/10 Family Friendly Gaming – 88% Destructoid – 8.5/10 Super [...]

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Pixel Toys new office!

We’ve been meaning to post a pic of our new office for a while… so now that Super Little Acorns 3D Turbo is out and in the hands of people across the world, and things are settling down in the office, here’s a couple of pics for you.     See how the sun streams [...]

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Winning!

Pixel Toys was recently lucky enough to be awarded the Coventry Telegraph Dafferns Award for Excellence, and a bottle of Champagne to go with it too Richard Miller, a partner with Dafferns, one of the leading chartered accountants and business advisers in the area, made a visit to the company last week to present the award [...]

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Mr Nibbles. Escapes onto Nintendo 3DS today!

He’s out of our office and out of control! This afternoon, at approximately 1.45PM GMT, the real life Mr. Nibbles burst out of his luxury squirrel enclosure at Pixel Toys HQ after he became excitable. It seems he mistakenly took the company logo to be one of his missing acorns and made a run for it. By [...]

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Pixel Toys and Super Little Acorns 3D Turbo at iDEAME

I was lucky enough to have the pleasure of attending iDEAME in Madrid this weekend … and even more exciting was the timing ! We had Super Little Acorns 3D Turbo on display at the event, and had the chance to do some press interviews too! I had a great time taking part in a roundtable [...]

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Super Little Acorns 3D Turbo coming to Nintendo 3DS this April!

Today we’re proud to announce Super Little Acorns 3D Turbo, set for simultaneous European and American release on 18th April, exclusively in Nintendo eShop for Nintendo 3DS! The company’s first release has been lovingly developed exclusively for the Nintendo 3DS™, in offices surrounded by all manor of woodland creatures at the company’s countryside HQ. Super [...]

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Networking…

So GDC is well underway, and while I would love to be there networking… I’m still here here in freezing cold blighty … doing, er, networking ! This is the process of moving the power points and networking ports around to create the layout upstairs in the new office before the decorators finish painting the [...]

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Yippy-ki-yay valentines-day

Pixel Toys were pleased to welcome senior artist Phil Irving to the team last month, having previously worked for Sony, FreeStyleGames and Codemasters, Phil is a great addition to our growing team. Phil joined us just in time for the first annual Pixel Toys Valentines bromance event, the premier of A Good Day to Die [...]

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Ethan testing

A difficulty experience

Last week we had Ethan (the son of one of our neighbours at the Innovation Centre) join us for work experience for three days. He helped us out doing some testing, checking that our new levels were up to scratch and also taking some video capture and screenshots for us. The timing was ideal as [...]

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We have the technology. Hot drinks are go!

Until now Pixel Toys was missing one important piece of development equipment. Fortunately thanks to the support of our sponsors (Father Christmas, aka Santa) we’ve acquired that final piece of vital technology. A coffee machine. If you’re like two thirds of the Pixel Toys team, then you need a strong coffee first thing in the morning to [...]

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