Welcome to the Xona.com Blog (xona.com/blog).

This is one of the more personalized sections of Xona.com.  Expect to see articles, or posts, that do not fit the Xona.com's more professional article categories, such as our tech articles and coding articles.  There will inevitably be overlapping, and articles will exist in multiple places at once for your convenience!

Ultimately we do not wish to have our own web presence dictate what we can or cannot publish, so this blog is a solution to that censorship problem.  If there is something, anything (news, thoughts, ideas, etc.), we are interested in enough to publish, and there is no other place to put it, you will find it here.  Remember, this is personal!

You may have noticed that this introduction to the Xona.com Blog is not the first blog posting.  We are aware of this!  We started blogging before we had a blog to blog to.  Situation resolved!

About the Author:  I am Matthew Doucette of Xona Games, an award-winning, team-of-two indie studio concentrating on "intense retro" games (Xbox LIVE, PSN, WiiWare, and Windows PC). We've released Decimation X (XBLIG), a 1-4 player shmup, #1 best selling and #1 top rated XBLIG in Japan. We're working on Duality ZF (XBLA), a groundbreaking 1-4 player shmup, which placed #1 in Canada and #5 in the world in Microsoft's Dream Build Play 2010 contest. It features dual play, the ability to control two fighters at once, and a massively upgradable 32-stage spread/laser weapon system. 4 player dual play allows up to eight fighters at once.  Many of these features are never before seen shoot'em up firsts. Both games feature beautiful electronic Imphenzia soundtracks.  Help spread the word with our official dualityzf.com and decimationx.com websites.

P.S. Watch out for Score Rush (official website scorerush.com), another 1-4 player shmup. Coming soon to XBLIG.

*Shmup also known as: shoot'em up, 2D shooter, scrolling shooter, space shooter, spaceship shooter, retro shooter, etc.