“A few weeks ago, roughly seconds after I got an invite to Metanet Software’s N+ launch party at the Gladstone Hotel (which I immediately promised to go to, as I missed an earlier PR event arranged by Microsoft) I received both an IM from Simon Carless (our benevolent overlord) and an e-mail from Brandon Sheffield (Insert Credit’s not-even-vaguely benevolent overlord) asking me to go and cover it. In what capacity, I wondered? ‘I don’t know,’ was the response (from one or the other) ‘Just write 300 words or something on it.’”

It’s been ages since I’ve got to use the GameSetWatch tag!

This is a silly little piece on the (slightly early) launch party for N+ (which is completely great and I recommend you all run out and buy it) at which I had a grand old time. Even with a couple of unnamed (but very obvious) developers flashing me…