"We put a lot of money into the marketing of Burn Zombie Burn," Brooksby said. "And our own funding, along with Sony's, helped achieve great exposure for the game." That exposure has left the developer "absolutely delighted" with BZB's sales to date, and, according to Brooksby, the team is already at work on its next title -- no doubt with the assistance of the Fund.

"To help newcomers hunt some of the bigger beasties and get a taste of the deeper action, we created higher level characters skilled at each of the major weapon types," the blog post reads. "Basically, the demo gets you into the hunt as quickly as possible."

"The Stop 'n' Swop legend is a monster amongst fans of the series; so, with that in mind, we hope people will enjoy and appreciate what has been done", he said.

"We have implemented, under MGS and Rare guidance, the gameplay that completes the SnS journey; it is, as much as anyone can say, the 'original plan', and everyone involved thinks it's cool.

"It's certainly more than a reward system. Bearing in mind we cannot create new areas, gameplay or content, it wasn't trivial to implement either.

"It does mean that XBLA Tooie is different to the N64 version, for those who know the original game, we couldn't give you the 'original plan' if the eggs and ice key remained from the N64! If you don't have Banjo-Kazooie you'll never see them, just like you wouldn't have 10 years ago..."

He added: "Lord Hanuman was not meant to be reduced to just a 'character' in a video game to solidify company/products base in the growing economy of India."

Zed goes on to state: "Video game makers should be more sensitive while handling faith related subjects, as these games left lasting impact on the minds of highly impressionable children, teens and other young people."

"I'm concerned this recent threshold news is generating an artificially negative wave of press. The spirit of the threshold was never to screw the developer - it was, as far as I can tell, a quality control mechanism to prevent the service from getting overrun with a bunch of crappy games," the source told our sister site Eurogamer.net.

"Once the threshold is crossed, the developer is retroactively paid for every single unit sold below the threshold. I know there has been confusion on that point in the past.

"From the stats I've seen and heard developers report, the threshold is easily surpassed within the first day, or at least the first week, for many games," the source explained.

"I hear rumours within the dev community that Nintendo recognises a problem here, where occasionally an entirely legitimate game just doesn't make it, and is looking for a way to make exceptions, to ensure small devs are paid even if the threshold is not reached. Just rumours though, so who knows.

"I just fear this is one of those things that sounds a lot more evil than it actually is," added the source.

"That's the normal Elite Price plus two games at no additional cost. Check your local retailer for availability," says the post.