i deeply apologise if this has already been posted somwhere else!

[shaman]

just wanted to see if this had ay significance

Oddworld Inhabitants has said its ambitious new videogame and CGI film project Citizen Siege is still very much in development.

It was speculated that proceedings had come to a halt after former partner Vanguard had "creative differences" with the developer. But this has affected nothing - although the focus has shifted off games at Oddworld.

"Citizen Siege is a project near and dear to our hearts so while we are no longer developing it with Vanguard due to the famous 'creative differences', it is still in development," Oddworld co-founder Sherry McKenna told GamesIndustry.biz.

"We still care about creating games although perhaps not in the way we did in the past," she said. "We are just in the process of finalising our new Oddworld 2.0 plan."

Citizen Siege, the film, will be produced by John H. Williams of Shrek fame, and directed by Lorne Lanning of Oddworld.

Lanning, incidentally, was replaced as president of Oddworld Inhabitants yesterday by Larry Shapiro from Brash Entertainment - the struggling publisher that focuses on movie-to-game adaptations.

The upshot of this will be unleashing Lanning on what he does best: dreaming up wacky ideas.

"Lorne has always had the title of president but now with our new model he is going to concentrate on what he loves most and that of course is the creative," added McKenna.

"Larry will get to deal with all the 'stuff' presidents of companies have to deal with. The good news is that we all see the future in a similar vein so that makes it very exciting."

There's no word on what exactly Citizen Siege will be, unfortunately, but we do know Maxis co-founder Jeff Braun will be helping with the project.

Oddworld Inhabitants was responsible for, surprisingly, the Oddworld series of games on Xbox and PS1.

The most recent of these was Oddworld: Stranger's Wrath, which you can find out all about on the relevant gamepage.

[sam250]

Seeing as this is an Oddworld fansite and Oddworld news is pretty slow, I think you can assume that the community jumps of every tidbit available, and hence anything that you think may have been posted almost definatly has.

[shaman]

best to be safe though

[moxco]

And this only a fraction of the Citizen Siege topics:

http://www.oddworldforums.net/showthread.php?t=16183
http://www.oddworldforums.net/showthread.php?p=339399
http://www.oddworldforums.net/showthread.php?t=11391
http://www.oddworldforums.net/showthread.php?t=15783


But because your new I forgive you.

[shaman]

Those topics are rather old.

I MEAN im sorry if this particular update has been posted before.

shaman

[OddjobAbe]

No worries. You can check if things have been posted or not by using the 'search' feature in the top right of the screen.

[Wil]

Although in this case it might be better to search the site using Google: Go to Google, paste in a section of the article or its URI in "quote marks", then add ‘site:www.oddworldforums.net’ to limit your search to OWF.

In this case you still wouldn’t have found anything, because this article has not been mentioned or linked to yet. This is because it’s covering news originally reported by GameInformer. If you’d have followed the link to the original story and Googled the URI of that, you’d know it’s already been found.

Nonetheless, thanks for letting us know. It is better than assuming it’s old news to us.

[Nate]

If you're ever not sure, just PM it to Max or Xavier who, as the official archivists, know of all the Oddworld articles that have been posted.

Citizen Siege, the film, will be produced by John H. Williams of Shrek fame, and directed by Lorne Lanning of Oddworld.

This is the only bit I don't get: John H. Williams is the CEO of Vanguard. If they've broken up with Vanguard, they've broken up with Williams as well.

[Wil]

That’s what I had assumed, and in all probability Eurogamer just spewed out the facts it could find without thinking them through or checking with OWF to make certain.

[Nate]

My vibe was that it was an article written with no new material, just based off other interviews and articles.

[Wil]

Isn’t that what I just said?

[Pilot]

Isn’t that what I just said?

Clearly, No.

[Nate]

I was taking what you had said and elaborated further to make it clearer for the general viewing audience.