{"id":26208,"date":"2013-01-12T13:31:25","date_gmt":"2013-01-12T17:31:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=26208"},"modified":"2013-01-12T13:31:25","modified_gmt":"2013-01-12T17:31:25","slug":"skulls-of-the-shogun-xbox-360-breaking-video-game-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=26208","title":{"rendered":"Skulls of the Shogun &#8211; Xbox 360 BREAKING VIDEO GAME NEWS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=26208\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-26209\" style=\"margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px;\" title=\"skulls shogun\" src=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/skulls-shogun.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"232\" height=\"169\" \/><\/a>Indie developer 17-BIT today announced that they will be releasing\u00a0<em>Skulls of the Shogun<\/em>\u00a0worldwide on January 30<sup>th<\/sup>, 2013 for Xbox 360, Windows 8 PC, Microsoft Surface, and Windows Phone. The Xbox 360 version will be available for 1200 Microsoft Points in the Xbox Live Marketplace, the Windows 8\/Surface version for $14.99 in the Microsoft Store, and the Windows Phone version for $6.99 in the Windows Phone Marketplace.<\/p>\n<p><em>Skulls of the Shogun<\/em>\u00a0is an invigorating cocktail of 1960\u2019s-flavored sorcery and strategy. Washed up on the shores of the afterlife, players meet and join forces with vibrant ghost-samurai warriors, magical animal-monks, and mustachioed samurai generals on the way to capture the Skulls of the Shogun in a 15-hour single-player campaign.\u00a0<em>Skulls of the Shogun<\/em>\u00a0also features up to four-player local and online multiplayer battles.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Also, for the first time ever, players will be able to challenge their friends, fight their way through online multiplayer battles, and even take their single-player campaign on the road asynchronously \u2014 whether they\u2019re playing on Xbox 360, Windows 8, Surface, or Windows Phone. Called\u00a0<em>Skulls Anywhere<\/em>, this cross-platform gameplay has never been done before on Microsoft platforms and will be available at launch on all four launch platforms!<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter three and a half years,\u00a0<em>Skulls of the Shogun<\/em>\u00a0is finally ready to be released,\u201d said 17-BIT Founder and CEO, Jake Kazdal. \u201cWe\u2019re ecstatic we could bring\u00a0<em>Skulls<\/em>\u00a0to all four of Microsoft\u2019s platforms, and bring them all together with cross-platform functionality. We appreciate the excitement and patience by all the\u00a0<em>Skulls of the Shogun<\/em>\u00a0fans, and we here at 17-BIT believe the wait will be well worth it.\u201d<br \/>\nSkulls of the Shogun will be localized in English, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Korean, Japanese, Brazilian Portuguese, and Russian.<\/p>\n<p><strong>ABOUT 17-BIT<\/strong><br \/>\n17-BIT is a Seattle-based boutique independent video game developer specializing in revitalizing classic genres with cutting-edge gaming experiences. Founded in 2009 by game industry veteran Jake Kazdal, 17-BIT aims to deliver iconoclastic games that challenge the expectations of 2D gaming. With bold, eye-catching art and broad audience appeal, 17-BIT creates fresh game experiences that hearken back to the 16-bit era of consoles, but with the power and high definition of modern hardware.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newzbreaker.com\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-19486\" title=\"NEWZBREAKER-BANNER\" src=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/NEWZBREAKER-BANNER.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indie developer 17-BIT today announced that they will be releasing\u00a0Skulls of the Shogun\u00a0worldwide on January 30th, 2013 for Xbox 360, Windows 8 PC, Microsoft Surface, and Windows Phone. The Xbox 360 version will be available for 1200 Microsoft Points in the Xbox Live Marketplace, the Windows 8\/Surface version for $14.99 in the Microsoft Store, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[532,2727,2590],"class_list":["post-26208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boxing-news","tag-news","tag-update","tag-video-game"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26208"}],"version-history":[{"count":-4,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26208\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}