{"id":12065,"date":"2011-06-01T11:37:00","date_gmt":"2011-06-01T09:37:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"rumour-control-castlevania-harmony-of-despair-headed-to-psn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/playstation\/12065-rumour-control-castlevania-harmony-of-despair-headed-to-psn","title":{"rendered":"Rumour control: Castlevania: Harmony of Despair headed to PSN?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Looks like Konami&rsquo;s Xbox Live Arcade exclusive Castlevania: Harmony of Despair won&rsquo;t be an XBLA exclusive for much longer &ndash; industry spies are saying the game is now prepping for a PlayStation Network launch.<\/p>\n<p>That&rsquo;s according to a report over on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.siliconera.com\/2011\/05\/30\/castlevania-harmony-of-despair-bound-for-ps3\/\" target=\"_blank\">Siliconera<\/a>, who claim the news comes via &ldquo;two different sources&rdquo;, who both remain otherwise anonymous. The project&rsquo;s producer Koji Igarashi previously suggested the game might see a PSN port, however, lending some credibility to the rumour.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Right now I&#8217;m focusing on Xbox Live Arcade,&#8221; he told <a href=\"http:\/\/www.destructoid.com\/koji-igarashi-on-3ds-kinect-the-future-of-castlevania-177441.phtml\" target=\"_blank\">Destructoid<\/a> last year at E3, when asked about a PSN release. &#8220;But there might be a possibility with that. I hope this one sells, and then we can think about PSN.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The game &ndash; a 2D action adventure supporting up to four co-op players &ndash; was met with very mixed reviews at launch last year, ultimately managing a pretty tepid 66 on Metacritic and 71 and GameRankings.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/14159-Castlevania-Harmoney-of-Despair-headed-to?p=443383#post443383\" target=\"_self\">Discuss Castlevania: Harmony of Despair<\/a> in the forums<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vampires, vampires everywhere<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11681],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-playstation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12065\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}