{"id":5869,"date":"2010-05-03T11:30:00","date_gmt":"2010-05-03T09:30:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"rumour-6-player-castlevania-coming-to-xbla","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/xbox\/5869-rumour-6-player-castlevania-coming-to-xbla","title":{"rendered":"Rumour! 6-player Castlevania coming to XBLA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>So Konami recently filed a European trademark for something called &ldquo;Harmony of Despair&rdquo;. Think that sounds like a Castlevania game? So does the rest of the internet.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>We can totally see Harmony of Despair snuggling up with Aria of Sorrow and Lament of Innocence, and all of them doing a lot of crying or something.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, now a mysterious &ldquo;trusted source&rdquo; over at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.joystiq.com\/2010\/04\/30\/rumor-castlevania-harmony-of-despair-2d-6-player-xbla-game\/\" target=\"_blank\">Joystiq <\/a>is claiming it&rsquo;s a 2D XBLA title, featuring not two, not three, not four, not five, but six-player co-op. That&rsquo;s a lot of co-op. And it&rsquo;s also apparently a Metroid-style (so, Castlevania: Symphony of the Night-style) scroller, packing a bunch of characters from recent Castlevania games.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Konami&rsquo;s not yet released any official comment on the rumour, and with E3 coming up next month, they might just hang onto it until then.&nbsp;<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That\u2019s a lot of people fighting over pickups<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-xbox"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5869","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=5869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5869\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}