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Oddworld Returns After Five Years In Hiding

Posted July 16, 2010 by M.H. Williams

Lorne Lanning’s Oddworld has been absent from screens since the release of Oddworld: Stranger’s Wrath in 2005. Oddworld’s main protagonist, the mukodon called Abe, hasn’t been seen since Munch’s Oddysee for the original Xbox in 2001. To everyone’s surprise, U.K. developer Just Add Water announced today that they’ve been working on new Oddworld titles for the past twelve months.

The announcement was made via a post on Just Add Water’s official blog. The post continues saying that the developer is “now working on multiple projects, across multiple platforms.” No other details are given.

“To work with the team at Oddworld has been amazing; being able to tap the minds of Lorne Lanning, Sherry McKenna and others has been fantastic,” said Just Add Water’s Managing Director Stewart Gilray. “It’s almost symbiotic in that when something moves forward on any of the projects we just start chatting about new items, or what if we do this. We’re all extremely excited to breathe life into the Oddworld universe and indeed to let it breathe life into us.”

Let’s hope Oddworld’s return is as good as the original games.

M.H. Williams has been writing in some form or another for ten years and has been a hardcore gamer since the NES first graced American shores.  You can catch him on Twitter as @AutomaticZen, Google+ as himself, or on his personal Facebook page.