Gerbil Physics for Valentine's Day!
In an effort to market the game Gerbil Physics better, Jon the artist created a rather funny poster (high resolution downloads available here) showing the game as a kind-of Valentine’s Day gift.
The somewhat tenuous and unlikely idea was that the game would make a good Valentine’s Day gift. This concept we hawked around some news sites, and happily got picked up by Kotaku and a few others, although sadly Microsoft declined the opportunity to feature this on their Xbox Dashboard 
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I’ll be blogging about how sales were impacted by this and our other marketing efforts in a future post.
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