I received an email tonight from one of the guys behind the whole Sunder game for the Revolution. Sunder, it turns out, is both a fake and not a fake. It's a fake in the sense that it's not actually an approved Revolution game, but it's not a fake in the sense that it is a concept for a game that the developers hope to one day get on a Revolution.

The game is being created by a company called LifeSpark Studios which was started by Derek Sarbou and Kenton Bailey. Sunder, and these "leaks", were apparently there way of pitching the game. Here's the full store from Bailey:

We have come to the point that we understand the gaming world is starting to become stale idea wise. So we have developed a new genre, the IBG or "Integral Battle Game" in order to provide the gaming community with something entirely new and immersive. We promise that we will try to present the most unique and new experience possible.

We were wanting Sunder to gain viral popularity via leaks over a few weeks time before we launched our site. LifeSpark Studios is a development company I and Derek Sarbou have founded and Sunder is a project we have been working on for months now. However, we felt it would get very little attention needed to get it seen by publishers if we launched the site without some form of viral release before the site launch. It is indeed a pitch package rather than a game in full development, but much time has been dedicated to it and so far we have accrued over 60 pages of information solely on the game itself.

The reason I am telling you this now is because a small blog has managed to successfully connect Sunder to me. The problem being that I have a known history for fakes/hoaxes concerning the Revolution. Of course, due to that fact people are now starting to label it as fake. That is just not true. We have no publisher or funding but the project is indeed a legitimate project. This is a legitimate project and we are looking for support.

You all (Kotaku) know who I am. I run Playbomb.com and my name is Kenton Bailey. Anyhow, if you would like to conduct an interview we would be very grateful, especially now that we have the problem of Sunder being deemed as fake. We want people to know that it is an actual project by us as a group of smalltime developers wanting to start something big. The storyline is fresh, the gameplay is very intuitive, and all together the entire project is very unique when it comes down to concept. For what we have so far I think it is safe to say that if a project for what we have in mind were to recieve attention and funding it would be a very successful product for the Revolution.

Thank you,
-Kenton Bailey

I'll see about interviewing him early this week.