New Oddworld shelved, older titles are Steam-bound

Oddworld creator Lorne Lanning has some bad news for fans waiting for a new entry in the series. He recently told G4TV that the next Oddworld title has been shelved. There’s still some a silver lining to this cloud, though. PC gamers can look forward to an Oddworld collection this year.

Oddworld creator Lorne Lanning has some bad news for fans waiting for a new entry in the series. He recently told G4TV that the next Oddworld title has been shelved.

“We had a few on the fire, and they’re still on the shelf,” said Lanning. “There’s a lot of shakeup going on [in the gaming industry] and in that turmoil, we didn’t really want to put the Oddworld brand out there in the middle of it, so we’re working on some other things that we’ll be announcing shortly.

“We want to really aggressively experiment at this time, and we didn’t want to really experiment aggressively with that brand.”

As for what they’re planning to announce, Lanning said, “What we’re working on now is more of a platform issue, not an IP. I can’t go into much more description than that.”

There’s still some a silver lining to this cloud, though. PC gamers can look forward to The Oddbox, a collection containing all four of the Oddworld Xbox games, will be available on Steam this year.

Via [G4TV]