Developers Twisted Pixel have announced that a title update for Splosion Man has been released to prevent cheaters from posting “impossibly good scores.”

After discovering the exploit, Frank Wilson, CTO of Twisted Pixel Games, initiated “Splodejement Day,” a title update that was released yesterday at 2am PDT. In addition to permanently sealing the exploit, the title update will wipe select scores from the leaderboards, so that only legitimate scores remain.

According to the developer, “This purge will be in time for the ‘Speedy Splode’ trophy contest, where the player with the best time in the single-player level 3-8 during the week of September 6th to 12th will win a unique Splosion Man statue and an autographed poster by the developers.”

Wilson, who affectionately calls his custom-built leaderboard-clearing application Splodenet, said “It goes on-line August 31st, 2009. Human decisions are removed from leaderboard defense. Splodenet begins to learn at a geometric rate. It becomes self-aware at 2:14 a.m. Pacific Time, September 1st. There is no score but what we earn for ourselves.”

As you know Splosion Man will be the first game to award Xbox 360 players with avatar accessories. However, this title update will not add avatar accessory awardable support to the game. The developer does not know when this feature will be available because the timing is up to Microsoft, but promises that players will be rewarded retroactively so encourages everyone to keep sploding!

Splosion Man is available now on Xbox Live Arcade for 800 Microsoft Points. Read our review to find out more about the game.