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Cursed Crusade demo now available on Xbox Live
Sorry, we couldn't help but notice that your watch is a few minutes slow, there. See, you're currently fifteen minutes behind our chronometer, which shows -- accurately, we might add -- that it's co-op dude-stabbing time. We suggest you correct your watch, and indulge appropriately in the recently released Xbox 360 demo for Atlus and Kylotonn's The Cursed Crusade. We suppose there are a number of games you can play to stab cooperatively, but really, aren't all of those old hat by now? Cursed Crusade's not old hat - a little old sugarloaf helm, perhaps.
The Cursed Crusade co-op trailer splits screens, heads
A lot of games these days try to dazzle would-be players with fancy co-op gimmicks, making it easy to forget the simple joy of murdering dudes together. Enter this co-op trailer for The Cursed Crusade, which reminds us why a little simul-stabbing is sometimes all you need.
Unleash a curse on The Cursed Crusade's website
To promote the upcoming release of The Cursed Crusade, developer Kylotonn and publisher Atlus have put together a little mini-crusade in the form of the official website. You can click around the new website looking for little Templar Shields to unlock info about characters and environments, which also fills your "Templar's Curse" meter. When the meter is full, you can "transform the page into a fiery, demonic view of the environment, unlocking a slew of new information," as Atlus describes it. You monster. You can also browse some new screenshots in our gallery. Try not to curse anything while you're looking, will you?%Gallery-121344%
Atlus to begin The Cursed Crusade on Xbox, PS3 and PC
Atlus PR and sales bard, Aram Jabbari, describes The Cursed Crusade as "a story of salvation and survival" set during the often unpleasant Middle Ages. "The game's main characters are not heroes; they're just men, susceptible to temptation, easily made to feel doubt and despair," Jabbari says, plucking a string (but in like, a sinister way). "The raw, gritty accuracy of many of the game's historical locations is sharply contrasted by Denz and Esteban's supernatural struggle to save their souls. Their affliction, the Templar's Curse, threatens to accelerate their descent into hell, burning their humanity away as it engulfs the space around them in demonic flame." Apparent non-comedy troupe Denz and Esteban star in The Cursed Crusade, a new third-person action-adventure game coming to Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and PC. It looks to be heavy on the melee combat, with Atlus and French developer Kylotonn (see: Speedball 2) promising a wide variety of weapons and ways to inflict critical flesh wounds. The curse that threatens to overwhelm Denz and Esteban also seems to grant them supernatural strengths -- including the anachronistic ability to fight cooperatively over the internet. According to Atlus, Esteban will be an AI-controlled character in the single-player mode. Join Denz and Esteban on their violent tour of Medieval Europe in Summer 2011. Bring your demonic flame-resistant dalmatica.%Gallery-106790%
Speedball 2 Tournament hits Steam this November
The folks at Valve and Kylotonn Entertainment have sent word (actually, they sent multiple words annoyingly assembled into sentences, which made things difficult for us) that futuristic sports brawler Speedball 2 Tournament will be digitally distributed via Steam at the end of November. Those wary of siphoning data from the internets will also be able to find the game in stores, though the disc will still require authentication from Steam upon installation.Once you've gotten that out of the way, you'll be able to take part in the PC "revival" of The Bitmap Brothers' Amiga classic, complete with worldwide rankings, online matchmaking and "state-of-the-art-technology." The Speedball series was most recently revisited with Speedball 2: Brutal Deluxe on Xbox Live Arcade.
