Inferno Pool

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Inferno Pool
Developer(s) Blade Interactive
Publisher(s) Blade Interactive
Platform(s) iPhone, PlayStation 3 (PlayStation Network), Xbox 360 (Xbox Live Arcade)
ReleaseiPhone
November 4, 2008
PlayStation 3
  • PAL: May 28, 2009
  • NA: October 28, 2009
Xbox 360
October 28, 2009
Genre(s) Sports
Mode(s) Single-player, multiplayer

Inferno Pool is a sports video game developed and published by Blade Interactive for iPhone in 2008, and for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 in 2009.

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Reception

The PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 versions received "mixed or average reviews" according to the review aggregation website Metacritic. [1] [2] Official Xbox Magazine UK gave the Xbox 360 version an average review while the game was still in development. [6]

Since its release, the Xbox 360 version sold 3,126 units worldwide by January 2011. [10] Sales moved up to 4,305 units by the end of 2011. [11]

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