Steel Battalion is coming back for controller + Kinect? As an employee of Microsoft I’d just like to say WHAT THE FUCK? Steel Battalion on the original Xbox was $200 and came with an enormous control panel covered in buttons and switches. It was punishingly complex and if you failed to activate the ejection seat when your giant robot exploded, it would erase your save file. I’m not kidding: single-player permadeath!

This is the New Kinect-Only Steel Battalion

Take a look at the debut trailer for Steel Battalion: Heavy Armor, coming to you from Gamescom in Germany. New details are hitting as I write this as well, so refresh this for an update. The short-short version: