[Wil]

It says it's based on the Oddworld franchise.

The journalist says it’s based on Oddworld. Journalists do not dictate the truth. I believe they are being premature calling this an Oddworld game when we know Lorne is working on different IPs now.

Is what we know about the CS games, if we assume this game to be a CS game then we also assume that CS will take a lot longer to be developed than previously anticipated […] we already know that the game and film for CS will be released around the same time because of some 'Synergy'.

I don’t think Lorne is so dead​set on getting everything out in the right order that he would delay the film by years just to get the game released first.