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A Kingdom for Keflings Coming November 19

• Scribbled on November 6th, 2008 by Jonah Falcon
• Filed in Microsoft Xbox 360, Press Release, Release Date(s), Strategy, Xbox Live Arcade

Gamerscore Blog has announced that the first game on Xbox Live Arcade to take advantage of the New Xbox Live Experience, A Kingdom for Keflings, is launching with the New Xbox Experience (aka Fall Dashboard Update) on November 19th.

So what is A Kingdom for Keflings? It is a take on the city-building genre by NinjaBee (best known for Band of Bugs) utilizing your personal Avatar as a giant who must help turn your small kefling town into a booming metropolis. You can also play with four of your friends cooperatively on-line to build your city. Does anyone else thinks this sounds awfully familiar? Perhaps Black and White, simply dumbed down to a casual game?

The game is also been touted for the unique animations and emotes that your avatars will have inside the game. It will be retailing for 800 MS points.

Check out the press release after the break.

A Kingdom for Keflings, the First Xbox 360 Game to Launch with Playable Avatars, Arrives on Nov. 19 with the New Xbox Experience

Giants in video games? Nothing new. But playing with your own doppelganger as the giant? That is something you can only do on Xbox LIVE Arcade.

From NinjaBee, the developer that brought fan favorites “Band of Bugs,” “Outpost Kaloki X” and “Cloning Clyde,” comes “A Kingdom for Keflings,” a new twist to the city-building game genre where you play as a giant working to turn a village of Keflings into a metropolis.

The Xbox LIVE Arcade game, launching on Nov. 19 with the New Xbox Experience, is the first Xbox 360 title to ship with playable, in-game Avatars. “A Kingdom for Keflings” also comes packed with custom animations tailored for Avatars and player-controlled social emotes. The game supports 4-player Xbox LIVE multiplayer with each friend using a custom Avatar, and works perfectly with Xbox LIVE Party.

But Avatar inclusion is just half the fun. In this innovative, Medieval-era city-builder, giants start out with a small village and a handful (literally!) of helpful Keflings who are tiny humanoids that follow the player’s commands and try not to get stepped on. Fun and direct interaction with Keflings includes carrying them around, assigning them jobs and training them to do simple tasks. The game features extensive customization of the city through personally constructing and painting each building and decorating the village with additional elements such as trees, statues and more. Players will have to collect and manage resources to build their village into a full-fledged city.

Other key features of the game include:

· The ability to build cities online cooperatively with up to 3 friends

· Stylized animated graphics that change with the seasons and season-based gameplay

· A dynamic-music soundtrack (which adapts to the season and the state of the village)

Developed by NinjaBee, “A Kingdom for Keflings” will be available for 800 Microsoft Points worldwide. The game is rated E for Everyone by the ESRB.

As always, for more information about the New Xbox Experience, including a Developer Diary detailing how Avatars will be used in games, please visit http://www.xbox.com/en-US/live/nxe.