As you may have heard, the start of this week was the final day for the Xbox 360 marketplace and Xbox Live Arcade. It’s the end of a pretty significant era in video gaming: the triumphant return of small creative teams, from the fringes outside of the mainstream/commercial industry (fringes to which they had largely […]
Tag Archive: N+
The End of The Start of An Era
01 Aug / by: M&R / 9 comments / tags : history,looking back,N+,nostalgia,XBLAAs seen on the Major Nelson blog, N+ is one of the many games featured in the XBLA “inventory blowout” sale, from June 16-22. Yes, that is correct: now is your chance to pick up the best version of N+ (according to us anyway) for only 400 Microsoft Currency Units! That’s 5 buckazoids if you’re […]
We recently ran into several copies of N+ (both DS and PSP) in Tokyo (at import stores in Akihabara), and noted that some of them had sold when we revisited the stores later on. We had assumed N+ DS/PSP would, like N+ XBLA, be sold worldwide — with any luck that will happen someday. For […]
The third (and final… well, for now, anyway) N+ levelpack is now available on XBLA, and it’s free! This one features levels from the original N, reworked and restyled for N+, in the form of: 150 singleplayer, 50 co-op, and 50 race. So the three level packs give you 675 new levels total — that’s […]
Edit: Thank you all for entering, this Contesque is now closed! So the third N+ level pack debuts Wednesday (the 15th of October, 2008), and that means it’s time for another contesque! For this open-ended contesque, if we like your submission you could win whichever version of N+ you want! This one is […]
Yes, it’s finally here! Today, September 10, 2008 you can get the second (of three) downloadable levelpacks for N+ XBLA. Woohoo! This set of levels contains 150 “harder” singleplayer levels, 50 “regular difficulty” multiplayer race levels and 25 “regular difficulty” multiplayer survival levels; it costs 200 points, which is less than 1 point per level! […]
It’s that time again! The second pack of new N+ levels for N+ XBLA will be out on Wednesday September 10, and that means we’ve got another contesque for you. The contesque is open to everyone, world-wide. It closes September 10 at 9am EST. That means it will be open for one week only, […]
Originally posted by M&R | July 21, 2008 Yes, it’s finally here! July 23 2008 will see the release of the first (of three) downloadable levelpacks on XBLA. Sorry this took so long! This set of levels contains 150 “easier” singleplayer levels, and 50 “pretty hard” co-op levels; it will cost 200 points, which is […]
Originally posted by M&R | July 16, 2008 The first XBLA N+ level pack, featuring 150 “easier” Singleplayer levels and 50 “regular difficulty” Co-op Multiplayer levels, is coming very very soon — by the end of July! To celebrate, it’s time for another contest-like-event, or to use our newly coined term, a “cont-esque”! We decided […]
Originally posted by M&R | June 27, 2008 We love you, UK! This month’s Official Xbox360 Magazine UK (Issue 35, July 2008) features an N+ exclusive: sweet gamerpics and themes not available anywhere else in the world. N+ fandom has never been so thoroughly stonking! Or corking.. we couldn’t decide quite how to describe this […]