Thanks for that info! I also wonder how they can put a game out so quickly....unless as with Oddysee it's playing off of Stranger's game engine somehow (which it might seeing as you said the article said 1st and 3rd person).
I also find it weird that they are going ahead with a game that we havent' even heard of before, that there's been no speculation around. I mean with all of the games that they will 'eventually' be making (back in the quintology). And I really wanted to see Hand of Odd. I'm going to be an old lady by the time they finish making Oddworld games
