Schizoid was announced back at GDC as the first XNA game to reach XBLA. Well, it's been more than 5 months since that announcement and the first screens were shown. Now, Gamefest 2007 is underway and Torpex Games is using the conference to debut the game. And to calm those who aren't attending we've finally got some video to scour for details.

The gameplay consists of "players [teaming] up to protect each other from a seemingly endless stream of glowing enemies." Basically, co-op is king here and if you don't work together to take out these mysterious iridescent enemies (which remind me a lot of flOw) that match your color (either red or blue, although it looks like blue and gold to me) you will both perish. Fight together and die together. At this point it seems like a mashup of Ikaruga, fLOw, and Mutant Storm with co-op as the main feature. Sounds pretty good to me.

More useful info via quotations after the break.

Bryan Trussel, Microsoft’s Director of Platform Game Services, had this to say: "Schizoid is a great game to play with friends, either on the couch or over Xbox Live." I will take that as a confirmation of local and online co-op. I would imagine getting both of those was very important for this game.

But the most important piece of info in the press release is the following statement: "Schizoid...is anticipated to be released before the end of 2007."

More original games by the end of 2007? Yes, please!

[via TeamXbox, thank for the video MURS]