The once cancelled True Crime: Hong Kong game will be reappearing as Square-Enix announced they have bought rights to the True Crime: Hong Kong game and will resume development and funding for the game.
Square-Enix will be re-branding the game itself and will have the original development team for the game, United Front Stduios, work in collaboration with their own London studio for development. The company did not reveal what they will be changing but they did mention how the majority of the stuff shown previously will most likely stay for the final game.
While Activision sold off the rights to the TC Hong Kong game, they still own the rights to the franchise and is expected to see how well consumers react to the new game before deciding on the series fate. The original reason Activision dropped the TC Hong Kong game was due to too much money spent during development and they felt the series wasn't able to reach Grand Theft Auto levels in sales and reception.
The game should still be expected at least for the PS3 and Xbox 360 with the original PC version unknown or any additional consoles added.
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Quick News Round-Up:
1) Suda 51's next project titled Lollipop Chainsaw is announced to be having a 2012 release date for US/Canada and Europe. Warner Bros Interactive also announced they are publishing the game for both markets.
2) The creator of the Grandia series, Takeshi Miyaji, died during the weekend at the age of 45 with the cause of death yet to be determined. Along with Grandia, he also worked on the GunGriffon game and the Lunar series.
3) The Witcher II for the Xbox 360 has been delayed and now has an early 2012 for the new release date. No exact reason was given for the delay but CD Projekt RED has stated they will use the extra time to polish the game up more.