Recognition of our company and our games. One intriguing accomplishment is every project we have worked on, released or not, has won awards, including Xona Games itself.

Contests:

• 2011-May: $1,000 WP7COMP Winner: Highly Commended Entry (Decimaton X2)
• 2010-Sep: Semi-Finalist: 3rd Independent Game Developer's Competition (Duality ZF)
• 2010-May: Finalitst: Dream Build Play 2010: #1 in Canada #5 in World (Duality ZF)
• 2010-Jan: $100,000 First Place Award Winner: I-3 Technology Start-Up Competition (Innovacorp)
• 2009-Sep: Finalist: Dream Build Play 2009: #2 in Canada #7 in World (Duality ZF)

Best Selling:

• 2010-Dec: Major Nelson: #10 & #11 Best Selling XBLIGs Worldwide (Decimation X3 & Score Rush)
• 2010-Dec: Best Seller: Simultaneous #1 and #2 best selling XBLIG in Japan (Decimation X3 & Score Rush)
• 2010-Dec: Best Seller: #1 and #2 best seller in 3 Countries (Score Rush)
• 2010-Dec: Best Seller: #1 best seller in 4 Countries (Decimation X3)

Top Picked:

• 2011-Jul: OXM: 16 Best Xbox LIVE Indie Games (Official Xbox Magazine) (Decimation X3)
• 2011-Jul: OXM: Top Indie Developers on Xbox LIVE Indie Games (Official Xbox Magazine Online)
• 2011-Jul: Retro Gamer: Homebrew Hereos: Top 5 Indie Games (Score Rush)
• 2011-Jun: VVGtv: Golden Dude Award for Best Graphics (Score Rush)
• 2011-Jun: Dealspwn: Xbox LIVE Indie Game of the Week (Decimaton X2)
• 2011-Apr: CVG: Top 10 Xbox LIVE Indie Games (Decimation X)
• 2011-Feb: Complex: 2nd and 7th of top 25 best Xbox LIVE Indie Games (Decimation X3 & Score Rush)
• 2011-Jan: XBLIGR: 6th top XBLIG games in 2010 (Decimation X3)
• 2011-Jan: NeoGAF: Gold and bronze XBLIG awards (Decimation X3 & Score Rush)
• 2011-Jan: Gamasutra: 5 best indie games (Score Rush)
• 2010-Dec: Joystiq: 2010 Buyer's Guide top pick (Xbox LIVE dashboard promotion) (Decimation X3)
• 2010-Dec: Dealspwn: Xbox LIVE Indie Game of the Week (Score Rush)
• 2010-Nov: Indie Games Winter Uprising: Member (Decimation X3)
• 2010-Nov: IGN: Top IGN.com Pick (Decimation X)
• 2010-Feb: XBLIGR: 4th XBLIG games in 2009 (Decimation X)

Top Rated:

• 2011-Mar: 3 of top 7 XBLIG 4-player shmups (Decimation X, Decimation X3 & Score Rush)
• 2010-Dec: Simultaneous 3 of top 5 rated XBLIG in Japan (Decimation X, Decimation X3 & Score Rush)
• 2010-Feb: US's #16 top rated XBLIG (Decimation X)
• 2010-Jan: Japan's #6 overall top rated Xbox 360 "Shooter" (Decimation X)
• 2010-Jan: Japan's #12 overall top rated Xbox 360 game  (Decimation X)
• 2010-Jan: Canada's #3 top rated XBLIG  (Decimation X)
• 2010-Jan: Japan's #1 best selling #1 top rated XBLIG (Decimation X)

Featured (Internet):

• 2011-Feb: CBC News
• 2011-Jan: thisisxbox.com
• 2010-Sep: Nova Scotia Government
• 2010-Aug: Dejobaan Games: Interview (award winning indie studio)
• 2010-Mar: GDC: Interview (2010 San Francisco)

Featured (TV):

• 2011-Feb: Reviews On The Run (Decimation X3)
• 2009-Sep: CBC TV News (also on radio and website)

Featured (Magazines):

• 2011-Jul: Retro Gamer (second time) (Score Rush)
• 2011-Feb: OXM (Official Xbox Magazine) (Decimation X3)
• 2010-Dec: Famitsu (#1 Japanese gaming magazine) (Decimation X3 & Score Rush)
• 2010-Nov: Develop (#2 worldwide game development magazine)
• 2010-Fall: NSBI (annual report)
• 2010-Apr: Retro Gamer (first time)
• 2010-Spring: Open To The World
• 2010-Mar: Famitsu (#1 Japanese gaming magazine) (Decimation X)
• 2009-Fall: Acadia University (bulletin)
• 2009-Nov: Develop (#2 worldwide game development magazine)

Featured (Newspaper):

• 2011-May: Chronicle Herald (Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada)
• 2010-May: Vanguard (Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada)
• 201-Feb: Chronicle Herald (Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada)
• 2010-Jan: Vanguard (Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada)
• 2009-Sep: Vanguard (Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada)

Featured (Government):

• 2011-Jun: Canada Business (bulletin)
• 2011-Mar: GDC 2011 San Francisco (Nova Scotia booth)
• 2011-Mar: Your Studio Here (Nova Scotia promotion)

Invitations:

• 2011-Mar: GDC 2011 San Francisco (showroom booth)
• 2011-Jan: Are You Smarter Than A CEO? (contest judge and case participant)
• 2010-Oct: Windows Phone 7 Launch Title Developer (Microsoft invitation) (Decimation X2)
• 2010-Feb: Innovacorp: Guest Speaker (on software pricing)

Recognition:

• 2010-Nov: Nova Scotia House of Assembly: Congratulated

True Fans:

• 2010-Jan: "How I come to be Xona-Infected?"

Notes:

"Overall" means all Xbox games, including retail and digital distribution (XBLA and XBLIG) combined.

XBLIG stands for Xbox Live Indie Games, which is Microsoft's initiative to support independent game development and allow indie game studios to publish to consoles. The Xbox 360 is the only console that allows independent game publishing.

Akin with Microsoft's indie initiative is Dream.Build.Play, their international Xbox game development contest which also promotes XNA Game Studio, the tools used to make XBLIG games. In Dream Build Play 2009 we competed against 350 games from 100 countries, placing seventh, and in 2010 we competed against 350 games from 110 countries, placing fifth.

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