Rather than continue to be negative — which apparently only works if you’re a fast-talking British bloke — let’s instead look at what was great about XBLA. Part 1: high royalties. Why does a high royalty rate matter so much? All it really means is a bit more money for us greedy developers, right? To […]
Positivity Part 1: Royalties
24 Mar / by: M&R / 24 comments /In Defense of the Apparant Shitstorm
22 Mar / by: M&R / 77 comments /Well, apparently our Gamasutra interview is controversial. Probably we should do what all the professionals have advised us to do, and just stop reading comments — it is the internet after all. But let’s instead take one last stab at dialogue. First of all, everyone we’ve worked with at Microsoft have been terrific — […]
First off, the new IGN blog post is up. This week, we take a look at N+ XBLA and provide some helpful tips and stuff. Check it out here! There are two crazy important things to note in this post. First, people have been getting this wrong all over the internet, and it’s time the […]
Yes, at painfully long last, N+ is available on XBLA worldwide! We’re stuck here at GDC for the next few days, so now is your chance to get on the leaderboards before we arrive back in Toronto and “throw down”. Booyah! The XBLA has been updated with all sorts of fancy new info, check it […]
Seriously, it’s been killing us to keep all the news about N+ quiet. We have really big mouths, and it’s hard to shut that down. But, finally, we’re FINALLY allowed to share the good news with everyone. N+ will be available for download for 800 points on this Wednesday, February 20th, at 9am PST. Yay! […]
N+ Launch Party Widely Regarded as “Best Party of All Time”
14 Feb / by: M&R / 21 comments / tags : N+Well, the N+ XBLA launch party was last night, and it was a smashing success! Check out the pics here. The room was pretty well packed by the end, and it was difficult to pry the controllers from the crabbed and clawlike (read: N+ addicted) hands of our guests when it was time to close […]
Before getting to the actual subject of this post, we should point out that the latest installment of our IGN developer blog is up: https://blogs.ign.com/Metanet/ To make up for the lack of substance last time, we’ve packed 8 pages of Q&A into a single column! Aw yeah. We’ve also updated the N/N+ website: https://www.thewayoftheninja.org/ We’re […]
IGN Developer Blog
15 Jan / by: M&R / 11 comments /The first article in a series we’re writing is up on IGN, you can check it out here: https://blogs.ign.com/Metanet/2008/01/15/77103/ We were feeling pretty silly when we wrote it (writing it at 1am the night before it was due may also have played a part). It was meant to be one of those “who are you […]
It’s The Final Countdown!
10 Jan / by: M&R / 14 comments /At long last N+ XBLA is finished the final certification process! Woo! We’ll post as soon as we hear about release dates/etc.. in the meantime, why not check out Nick’s blog? (note: the handheld versions are still firmly lodged in various stages of development)
UFN (Unidentified Flying Ninja)
18 Dec / by: M&R / 27 comments /We were just sent this video — apparently taken by a resourceful eye-witness. Sightings of gold-thirsty ninjas in and around urban areas have been increasingly common in the past couple weeks.. thankfully we have the robots to keep them at bay! https://www.thewayoftheninja.org/n+_video.html