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Where is Billy Hatcher and The Giant Egg 2?

Billy Hatcher and The Giant Egg is an action platformer originally released for the Gamecube in 2003. The game was greeted with a mixed reception and a sequel was never made. Billy Hatcher had it’s fair share of flaws, but it shouldn’t have been enough for Sega to abandon the game altogether.

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dedicatedtogamers5059d ago

You can bet it will be announced for the 3DS or the Wii U. Nintendo seems to have an obsession with showing off new niche games while ignoring niche games already out (Last Story, Xenoblade, Ace Attorney Investigations).

Or, ya know, SEGA could have just announced the game, gotten the fans involved, had thousands of fans submit art for the design of a main character, promised a prototype, and then cancelled it ungracefully.

billyboi1225059d ago

LOL. Let's hope that doesn't become a trend...

Sharingan_no_Kakashi5059d ago

haha I remember this game. Sequel= Not happening. It got great reviews and sales but if they were really interested in a sequel we'd have seen 2 by now.

MidnytRain5059d ago

Oh my God! I remember this game! My brother and I played it on our GameCube but we never beat it. I think it was the last level that drove us nuts. Man, I recalled this a little while ago, but I couldn't remember the name. Good times... I didn't think this game was popular at all in retrospect.

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Peter Molyneux recalls how Project Milo, the Kinect game with revolutionary promise, died a death

Vapourware can end up being the stuff of legend, like Rockstar's Agent, Star Wars 1313, or StarCraft: Ghost. Without ever seeing the light of day, these games never risked the possibility of being played and forgotten, and instead live on forever as the subjects of lengthy YouTube essays.

Still, Molyneux's most notable lost game (or tech demo, depending on who you asked at the time) was arguably Project Milo.

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darthv722d ago

I can see the potential of the kinect hardware... its rather impressive tech, but it was just not meant to be for gaming. If anything, MS had a huge missed opportunity to have used it for the AR/VR projects.

S2Killinit1d 15h ago

Missed opportunity? They lied. It was the biggest lie in gaming history.

merlox1d 10h ago

You can use the Kinect as an SLS camera for paranormal investigations. So it wasn’t a complete failure.

Cacabunga1d 7h ago (Edited 1d 7h ago )

Remember Star Wars Kinect announcement? Biggest laughable acting seen

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rlow11d 5h ago (Edited 1d 5h ago )

Do you mean about project Milo?

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-Foxtrot2d ago

It was built on lies Peter...you know this.

isarai2d ago

Bro that thing NEVER existed, what we got was a concept video

Knushwood Butt2d ago

"Unfortunately, as we were developing Milo, so the Kinect device was being developed. And they realised that the device that Alex Kipman first showed off would cost $5,000 for consumers to buy.

"So they cost-reduced that device down to such a point, where the field-of-view...I think it was a minuscule field-of-view. In other words, it could only just see what's straight in front of you."

Hmm, exactly what tech was in it, that was cut, affected the development? It was only ever interpreting visual and audio inputs right? The xbox was processing those inputs.

Nor do I see how the field of view thing is relevant to the discussion.

isarai2d ago

Exactly! Tf kinda BS statement was that? i don't really see how fov is relevant at all, since when do you move all around a room while talking/interacting to someone?

Amplitude1d 11h ago (Edited 1d 11h ago )

This is entirely untrue. There was never a 5000 dollar Kinect prototype that could somehow use a wider field of view to scan and import generated in-game items and advance AI by over a decade. Anybody that fell for this was a stupid moron child, myself included. Anybody that falls for this lie now is a stupid moron child who doesn't realize that these people *only* know how to lie.

victorMaje1d 19h ago

It was all Smoke & Mirrors.

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Best Guest Characters in Fighting Games

Sora might be one of the most hyped guest characters in fighting games, but these other guest characters are no slouch either.

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Guild Wars 2 Cookbook Gets You Free Butterknife Spear Skin

Game Rant gets a first look at the upcoming official Guild Wars 2 cookbook, along with a preview of the exclusive Butterknife spear skin.

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