360Sync presents - Marathon DLC Preview Pt. 1

Throughout this week 360Sync will be updating their website with their exclusive preview of the upcoming DLC for Marathon: Durandal.

The first part of the preview is up, with a video of a new multiplayer map called Duality, taken from Durandal's sequel Marathon: Infinity, and to Halo nerds - the precursor for the Halo 2 Multiplayer map Gemini.

Click this link to watch the video. It's currently unknown when this DLC will pop up, but going by this Press Blast it shouldn't be too long.

Source: 360Sync.com

GDC '08 - N+ Postmortem and video interview!

The guys and gals over at Metanet Software are giddy awaiting the release of their games in just a few hours - they've done their own panel at GDC discussing the things they were able to accomplish with the Xbox Live Arcade version. An overview of the session has been written by Gamasutra:

As for how the game is funded, the Canadian duo managed to get Government funding from Telefilm for the game, with the duo explaining that it's a loan that's repaid out of profit. Sheppard then showed a full breakdown of N+'s costs - with $214,000 in total development dollars for the game.

She particularly noted that, even taking the programming in-house, it costs about a minimum of $125,000 to develop an Xbox Live Arcade title, including many of the compulsory or necessary payments for localization, testing, and so on. She did note: "Pay yourself as much as you can" with regard to salaries - in case of title delays.

Read the entire Postmortem here.

Along with this article the website 360sync has also had a video interview with the main N developers. Included in this interview is the answer to N+'s secret achievement!



Source: 360Sync, Gamasutra.