{"id":863923,"date":"2025-07-21T02:12:28","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T07:12:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/21\/peter-molyneux-recalls-how-project-milo-the-kinect-game-with-revolutionary-promise-died-a-death\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T02:12:28","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T07:12:28","slug":"peter-molyneux-recalls-how-project-milo-the-kinect-game-with-revolutionary-promise-died-a-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/21\/peter-molyneux-recalls-how-project-milo-the-kinect-game-with-revolutionary-promise-died-a-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Peter Molyneux recalls how Project Milo, the Kinect game with revolutionary promise, died a death"},"content":{"rendered":"
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At Nordic Game 2025, Molyneux shared how tech limitations and changing priorities killed the Xbox game Milo & Kate<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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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.<\/p>\n

Peter Molyneux, formerly of the studios Bullfrog and Lionhead, and currently working on Masters of Albion<\/a> at 22cans, has had a number of cancelled projects in his career. The original Xbox’s prehistoric game BC was axed around the time Fable became Lionhead’s priority, for example.<\/p>\n

Still, Molyneux’s most notable lost game (or tech demo, depending on who you asked at the time) was arguably Project Milo.<\/p>\n

Revealed alongside the Kinect device at E3 2009, which was then known as Project Natal, players would interact with a young male character called Milo using voice and gesture commands.<\/p>\n

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