Why is there aFuturamavideo above? Because the feeling that Fry and the gang are having when they learn that they are to be killed by snu snu is the exact feelings you should be having when reading that headline. First there is sadness fromlearningthat we will not be getting a newOddworldany time soon, then there is joy from finding out that the classic games in the series will be landing on Steam this year.
Series creator Lorne Lanning delivered the depressing news thatthe long teasedfifth game in the series was put “on the shelf.” He continued, “There’s a lot of shakeup going on [in the gaming industry], and in that turmoil, we didn’t really want to put theOddworldbrand out there in the middle of it.”
To bring you back up Lanning also said that theOddboxwill be landing this year on Steam.Oddboxcollects the franchise’s four console games into one package, and is the first time PC gamers will get a chance to play two of them.
New Oddworld Game Shelved; Older Games Coming To PC In 2010[G4, viaJoystiq]
