NinjaBee has finally raised the curtain on their latest Xbox Live Arcade Title, A Kingdom for Keflings. After teasing us with relatively humorous videos for several months and an IGN-exclusive video, they've finally cut loose with some screenshots and details on the upcoming city-building sim. Players will take the on the role of a helpful giant, designing a city for the local Keflings.

"We wanted to make a city building game where the player is more personally involved instead of controlling an abstract floating hand", said Steve Taylor, President of NinjaBee. "A Kingdom for Keflings transports the player to a world they create and allows them to relax, enjoy the world and create a strategy that works for them".

For those lonely giants among us, the game will also support four-player co-op via Xbox Live. A Kingdom for Keflings is coming this fall to an Xbox 360 near you. In the meantime, enjoy the first screenshots.

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It's SimCity meets Gulliver's Travels. Dubbed A Kingdom for Keflings, players construct a kingdom, well, for the Keflings in this Ninja Bee developed Xbox Live Arcade title. Kinda like the idea of building stuff for little people — but only if I can smash it to smithereens when I'm finished!

A Kingdom for Keflings Revealed [IGN via Xbox 360 Fanboy]

What better way to introduce your new city-building sim for Xbox Live Arcade than by by brutally murdering one of the characters on video? NinjaBee, the creators of Outpost Kaloki X and Band of Bugs, have crafted this twisted tale of betrayal and death in honour of A Kingdom for Keflings, which I am assuming features the titular and currently unseen creatures helping you, the player, create a kingdom. It seems NinjaBee just wasn't sure what to do with the little buggers once production entered the home stretch.

"I'll be honest here, I went out to my car and ten of the little guys were wandering around, bumping into each other and wearing little sandwich boards reading 'Will Work for Hats,'" said Steve Taylor, President of NinjaBee. "We couldn't put them out on the streets after they worked so hard on our game, so we hired them to help around the office. They follow directions to the letter and are very friendly, but not too smart. The way I see it, what could go wrong?"

What could go wrong? How about....MURDER!? Look for A Kingdom of Keflings this fall, unless the authorities find the bodies first.

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