Valve, Nunchuck release Ninja Reflex over Steam

by Jason Dobson { Mar 22nd 2008 at 1:00AM }

Valve and Nunchuck Games have tiptoed around caltrops and poison rice balls in order to release Sanzaru Games' "ninja party game" Ninja Reflex over Steam. The game, recently released for both the Wii and DS, leverages Valve's Steamworks tool set, adding some 50 new achievements not found in the previous versions. Even better, the companies hint at an in-game "basket" of Easter Eggs lifted from the Half-Life and Portal universe. Whatever that means, we want it.

Beyond the added achievements, the appropriately dubbed "Steamworks Edition" also carries an attractive asking price of just ~~$9.95~~ $8.95, making the alternative $39.99 Wii and $29.99 DS versions seem laughable by comparison. The game is up on Steam now, and is next on our list of things to get -- right after we finish eating this rice ball.

Tags: ninja-reflex, ninjareflex, nunchuck, sanzaru-games, sanzarugames, steam, steamworks, valve

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

chacho89 @ Mar 22nd 2008 1:05AM

so much for a Wii exclusive. And just 8.95 I fell sorry for those people that bought this game a couple of weeks ago.

Lorben @ Mar 22nd 2008 10:46AM

No kidding. $40 at retail, $9 on steam (with extras). That's gotta hurt anyone that bought it.

Jeff @ Mar 22nd 2008 1:08AM

Whenever Valve decides to pimp a game it seems to turn out really good.

Audiosurf and Peggle come to mind. =)

DonWii @ Mar 22nd 2008 1:11AM

EA: So, how many people bought the retail version first week?
Exec: Uh... 10.
EA: Aww... Lets release the Steam version.

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EA: So, how many people bought the retail version first week?
Exec: About... 300k.
EA: Sweet... Lets release the Steam version.

Fernando Rocker @ Mar 22nd 2008 1:35AM

Best comment of the night (or almost morning)

=p

Jansperus @ Mar 22nd 2008 1:28AM

Jajajaja! Take that PC! See how you like shovelware!

GaryM @ Mar 22nd 2008 2:19AM

At least our "shovelware" is priced at appropriate shovelware price levels. ;)

Did try the demo, btw. It's not bad.

StuScotsLazyEye @ Mar 22nd 2008 5:33AM

Jajajaja! That that, console gamer! See how you like paying $65 for a game, paying for content we get for free, and being gimped by a controller with no more than 13 buttons! Life as a console gamer is GREAT!

Unz @ Mar 22nd 2008 5:40AM

jajajajaja, I'll take 60 dollar games, a 300$ machine and buyable content over a 6 grand gaming computer any day, not to mention it goes out of date every year...

Have fun (if you're lucky) getting 8 months old games ported that are exactly same as the original.

playwhutyalike @ Mar 22nd 2008 9:03AM

Jajajajaja! I really have nothing to say I just wanted to type that because it looked fun.

It wasn't.

John McPoop @ Mar 22nd 2008 1:30AM

Great, another platform and still the same trash as before..

Mills and Boom @ Mar 22nd 2008 9:28AM

John's doing his thing again?

First of all Pokemon was rubbish and didn't play well even though... he hadn't played it.

Does make me wonder if he's even tried this game...

Piddy @ Mar 22nd 2008 9:06AM

This is the issue I have with "casual games" for consoles. I've played the DS game - it's as casual as they get; shoot some ninja cut-outs, grab some flies with chopsticks, bat some fruit with nun chucks...it goes on and on, just faster and faster and it costs almost as much as a "full" game.
Companies are making a ton of money passing off what would merely be a collection of mini-game add-ons in a regular game - for 75% of the price of a full game.
No wonder everyone is scrambling to get on the casual bandwagon.
I think it's time DS and Wii games get the same pricing as PSN, XBLA and Steam games, unless the media itself is costing them an additional $20?