Castlevania: Harmony of Despair on Xbox Live Marketplace.

Last Wednesday, Komani released their Xbox Aracde exclusive Castlevania title, “Harmony of Despair”. The game features level design inspired by Portrait of Rain and up to 6 play Co-op on Xbox Live.

The game has various incarnations of vampire slayers from the Castlevania series coming together to take down Dracula one more time.

You can buy this title on the Xbox Live Marketplace for 1200 Microsoft Points.

Read more about this game when we get the review out soon!

Need a Job? Microsoft is Hiring.

After the announcement of Halo Reach being Bungie’s last dab in the Halo Universe, Microsoft’s 343 Industries want to work on more games based around the Halo Universe.

The jobs page on Microsoft’s web page was updated with 15 new job titles including 9 that were already posted.

If you got what it takes, visit their website at:

http://www.microsoft-careers.com/go/343-Industries-Jobs/190537/

Update: Project Milo to Be Released, Not This Year.

Remember this article? Well forget about it.

Looks like the Virtual Boy lives again (not the Nintendo Console) with an announced mate, Kate! Lionhead, the producer of the tech demo for the Kinect, has decided to make him into his own game after all. Looks like Milo will not die alone after all in a cold storage center.

“Project Milo absolutely continues in development at Lionhead Studios,”
said Microsoft Project Manager Aaron Greenberg.

“It is just not a product we plan to bring to market this holiday. The team at Lionhead has always been a center of innovation and will continue to deliver against that charter.”

Looks like we can look forward to Milo and Kate coming out sometime in the future.

Project Milo a ‘No Go’ (UPDATE)

Lionhead Studio’s press demo from 2009 for the Kinect, Project Milo, is “Not A Game We’re Planning To Bring To The Market” says Lionhead Studios.

Project Milo was one of the most innovative ideas for the Kinect, allowing you to interact with an AI in a real-time environment.

A lot of the ideas put into Project Milo have appeared in the upcoming game for the Kinect, Kinectimals AKA Skittles Happy Fun Time Adventure; Read more

ThinkTank: Microsoft Press Conference.

As the E3 press conference for Microsoft the year comes to a close, and people who decided not to go to the conference or forgot to go are still punching walls over not getting a free Xbox 360 slim (Okay, maybe only I am).

Microsoft seems to have gone in the direction of the Wii Press Conference last year, trying to make a multi-media device instead of a console. They had mainly focused on the Kinect and features on Xbox Live. This isn’t necessarily bad, this is really good from a business standpoint, but many hardcore fans had shown distaste to Microsoft’s focus on Gizmos & Gadgets rather than Games and gore.

Call of Duty: Black Ops

Somethings never change, that being war and an on schedule, Read more

Konami E3: Adrenalin Misfits for Kinect

The big news from Konami on Monday during the Microsoft presentation at E3 has left tons of fans applauding and cheering, which is the new Metal Gear title from Konami Digital Entertainment: Metal Gear Solid: Rising. But there is more…

Adrenalin Misfits will be released as a Kinect-only title for the XBOX360, the game was shown on several play booths at the convention and it features board-riding monsters battling each other on seven different locations in the virtual world. It can be on snowy peaks, stormy deserts, limestone grottos etc. The style of art will be a mix of cartoony characters and realistic environments, somewhat similar to Sonic the Hedgehog.

With the motion capture technology of Kinect, players can practice their skills as if they are snowboarding in real life. The characters can do jumps, turns and flips like real pros. Players can choose between in-game characters, their customized characters or their XBOX360 Avatars.

The game features multiplayer function, where you can battle each other or race each other to the finish. However, the game looks fun in single player mode as well, trying to beat the game or beat your own record.

Adrenaline Misfits has several game modes, such as Downhill Slalom where the player can beat his opponents or his personal record. Read more

E3: Gears of War 3 presentation – First Impressions

Cliff Bleszinski did the opening speech about Gears of war 3.

It is a four player story based co-op game; he played it with 3 other people on stage during the presentation.

This game has a better design and nicer colours (read: it has color) than the other parts of the series, because the game works on an improved engine. It is build with the latest Unreal technology for producing better graphics. New Lampent mutated enemies had to be battled with, in a place called Fort Anvil Gai.

There was one large boss: it was like a huge worm which threw out some egg-like pods which contained some enemies who dropped out of it. Read more

The E3 2010 Microsoft Presentation review – from a “Hardcore gamer’s” perspective

I’m writing this article right after watching a live stream of Microsoft’s presentation at E3 2010, which was a let down apart from Hideo Kojima’s new title Metal Gear Solid: Rising, which looks very promising. Nothing new to show actually; just a thorough playthrough of Microsoft’s Kinect.

The presentation started off with Activision’s Call of Duty: Black Ops, with same kind of gameplay as the previous CoD titles, and slightly better graphics. Epic’s Gears of War 3 looks a bit promising. The new affiliation between Microsoft and Crytek, who is developing a new game for Microsoft’s project Natal which is renamed Kinect. Bungie’s Halo: Reach was also shown with it’s first worldwide gameplay demo. And furthermore, a new Forza racing game for Kinect. Read more

Microsoft Changes Xbox 360 Box Art?!

Microsoft has recently updated their cover art for new Xbox 360 titles.
If anyone that has pre-ordered, or even viewed the box art of Mafia II or Kane and Lynch: Dog Days, you might have noticed the updated Xbox 360 logo.

This is the old one:

And this is the new one

As you can see, Microsoft has lightened the shade of Grey on the Xbox logo, the green bar under the logo has been shortened, the circles logo has been replaced with this new ‘wave’ logo, and the Xbox Live symbol is completely gone all together.

This has not yet been officially announced by Microsoft, or has been placed on any new games as of yet. It seems to be of a possible pending design or used for certain games on the Xbox 360.

Microsoft: Natal the most spectacular of our collection!

Steve Ballmer, Director and CEO of Microsoft describes Project Natal as the most spectacular product that they are going to sell this year.

According to Ballmer, Natal is unique: our players won’t need controller or another big accesoy. its new technology, they will only need to make gestures and their voice will also be recognized, also according to Ballmer he thinks that natal can be used for other things to!

Demonstration

This fall project natal will be for sale and microsoft is planning to give a demonstration on the E3 this year. On June 13 the World Premier Project Natal for Xbox 360 Experience event will be held, and on June 14 Microsoft will let us know of their other plans during a Press conference

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