Good news regarding the beleaguered Kinect for the Xbox 360 system. Rumors are starting to leak out about the cancellation of the ill fabled pedophile simulator Milo. Thank goodness for the rest of the world for sparing us the next Microsoft based disaster. After reviewing the TED talk for Milo, it was a creepy game/simulator wherein the user of the kinect gets to command a pre pubescent virtual boy around a 3D landscape.

The supposed plot for Milo? A pre teen boy moves with his family from the UK to New England and hes not happy about it. From smashing snails by a river (WTF?) to looking generally pissed off, he eventually gets into an argument with his parents off screen and runs to his room. The Kinect player then encourages the boy to clean up his room (that sounds FUN!).

What gives? No siblings? I would love to command Milo go into his virtual little brother’s room (lets call him Otis) and beat the living shit out of the younger boy and then at a later date, have Milo construct a go kart only to shove poor little Otis in it (wearing a paper burger king crown as a magic helmet that will protect him from all head injuries) and send him careening down a steep hill in a campaign of virtual terror. Eventually, Otis grows up to brutally slaughter the rest of the family with a meat clever and an ice pick because he “just snapped”. That’s my idea of entertainment…

You never know, Microsoft may get smart and refocus to other target audiences like N.A.M.B.L.A or the Vatican.  It may outsell Halo Reach if thats the case. If this rumor is true, it may very well have just saved Peter Molyneux’s career. Let’s bow our heads in silence for the snail smashing digital abuse victim that almost was…