April Fools: A World of Keflings becomes A World of Deathlings
Ninjabee has gone a step further in pursuit of April Fools Day funniness and has actually patched a joke into A World of Keflings on Xbox Live Arcade. According to the press release, the patch adds combat to the game, thus making it more akin to violent RTS games like StarCraft, Age of Empires and Team17's classic Orcs, Orcs, Orcs!.
We downloaded the patch to give it a try, and it certainly does add violence to the game. It adds the worst kind of violence, as a matter of fact: emotional violence. You can see it yourself after the break ... if you think you've got the stomach for it.
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OREM, Utah - Apr. 1, 2011 - It's been along time coming for the happy-go-lucky Keflings. Today, it's payback time. NinjaBee announced that it released a patch today that unlocks the long-missing combat in A World of Keflings, turning your avatar's peaceful tiny helpers into raging 'Deathlings.'
All players have to do to activate the new feature is log into A World of Keflings and perform an in-game emote.
"Really, who wants to play an RTS where there's no combat?" said Brent Fox, Art Director at NinjaBee. "That would just be stupid. Not a lot of people know this, but making Keflings the easy-going game it is now was just a big mistake. We meant the original game to be like Age of Empires, Warcraft or Starcraft, but somebody messed up and forgot to build in the combat. I blame our QA department."
Core gamers eat your heart out.
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About NinjaBee
NinjaBee, located in Orem, Utah, began developing games in 2004. With every game they make, NinjaBee's goal is to create a unique, top-quality, fun experience for people of all ages. Their popular XBLA titles include Outpost Kaloki X, Cloning Clyde, Band of Bugs, Doritos Dash of Destruction, A Kingdom for Keflings, Ancients of Ooga and A World of Keflings. Their WiiWare games include Boingz and The Amazing Brain Train. On iPhone/iPod touch NinjaBee's games include Kaloki Free, Kaloki Adventure, Kaloki War and Kaloki Love.
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