Enter a macabre and comical silent film world filled with mischief, time travel, and delicious pie. Record yourself and harness your time bending abilities to cooperate, compete against, and disrupt your past, present, and future selves. Winterbottom's debut misadventures present whimsical spin on the notions of time, space, and play.
Mr. P.B. Winterbottom is a villainous gentleman with a predilection for pies. Swiping the mysterious Cherry Chronoberry pie changed everything for our beloved Winterbottom… one bite made him more than an ordinary pie-grabbing humbug. That first taste changed him into something quite extraordinary, granting him the ability to break the rules of time. With these newfound time recording tricks up his cufflink, and with the help of his time clones, Winterbottom can now snatch pies with the greatest of ease. But on his journey to devour every pie, Winterbottom must mind the signs… the perils of being unstuck in time.
Sometimes game names are pretty self-explanatory, as with PixelJunk Shooter or Puzzle Quest. On the other hand, you might assume that a name like The Misadventures of P.B. Winterbottom doesn't really tell you anything. But you'd be wrong. Sure, the name doesn't relay that Winterbottom is in fact a wonderful, challenging, and incredibly rewarding puzzle game that involves twisting time and creating clones of yourself, but it gets one thing across very clearly: It's not a game that takes itself too seriously, and it's not afraid to get downright silly. Read More »
Did you know that it'll only cost you 800 Microsoft Points to eat some Chronoberry Pie? Did you also know that after eating said pie you'll be able to guide a Victorian-looking cad on a mind-melting puzzle-filled adventure? That's right, folks, The Odd Gentlemen's Xbox Live Arcade title, The Misadventures of P.B. Winterbottom, is set to go live next month, on February 17th. Read More »
The Odd Gentlemen, the team behind the 2K-published indie game The Misadventures of P.B. Winterbottom, has posted a new trailer that features some new, pie-catching gameplay. Similar to last year's XBLA hit Braid, Winterbottom uses the manipulation of time as its main puzzle-solving component, but is unique in both how it looks and how physics play a role in the pie-nabbing (why not cake?).
The Misadventures of P.B. Winterbottom is slated for release on Xbox Live Arcade early next year, and the new trailer as well as a "making of" video featuring the team's student project can be found after the break. Read More »
Also known as: The Misadventures of Mister P.B. Winterbottom
Release Region: United States
Release Date: February 17, 2010
Publisher: 2K Play
E for Everyone Comic MischiefAlso available on: PC
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