Oddworld: Stranger's Wrath HD Message Board

Oddworld: Stranger's Wrath HD for PlayStation 3 is reckonin' to get a significant patch next week, adding some fancy features like Move and 3DTV support. Other additions in the update include video recording/uploading, brightness and gamma controls, audio tweaks and a barn full of other fixins that y'all will like.

The patch goes live on the PlayStation Network at 7PM Eastern (4PM Pacific) on June 26 and a little after midnight on June 27 in Europe. Head on over to the Oddworld for the full patch notes.

We terrorize some of the locals in Oddworld: Stranger's Wrath HD.

Now enjoy Oddworld: Stranger's Wrath HD with the PlayStation Move.

"We were asked in April [2010] to do Stranger's Wrath on PC," says Stewart Gilray, who pulls triple duty as Oddworld Inhabitants' Development Director and Just Add Water's CEO and Creative Director. "We thought four months, maybe five at push." They were wrong...

Oddworld: Stranger's Wrath HD has been available on PSN since last December, but its 2.1 gigabyte file size -- just .1 gigs over Microsoft's XBLA file size limit -- has prevented it from seeing the insides of the Xbox Live Marketplace. Though Just Add Water has been in talks with Microsoft to publish the game itself, it sounds like the developer will be making some alternative accommodations.

"We've basically run everything dry in terms of going some kind of first-party route with Microsoft, be it them publishing it or be it us publishing it ourselves," said Just Add Water CEO Stewart Gilray during an interview with VG247. "So we're now having to go down the third-party route."

The developer is in talks with "two or three" publishers and hopes to have more information to announce by Easter, although Gilray did not give specifics regarding which publishers may be interested in helping the cause. It's unclear how working through a third-party publisher will aid in resolving (or circumnavigating) the game's size issue, but we're glad to see that Just Add Water is still trying.

Where I come from, a chipmunk is a poor substitute for a six-gun, but then again, I'm not from Oddworld.

We hope you like HD remakes, because a pair of high-profile titles are part of this week's PSN update. Alongside the debut of Oddworld: Stranger's Wrath HD, PS3 users can snag HD-ified versions of the first three Splinter Cell games, ala carte: Splinter Cell HD, Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory HD and Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow HD.

Doublesix's follow-up to Burn Zombie Burn!, All Zombies Must Die, also debuts on PSN this week. If this were a police blog, we'd say we've got modus operandi for Doublesix. Yup, cop jokes. Deal with it.

PSOne Classic Klonoa: Door to Phantomile is also available for download this week, along with MotorStorm Apocalypse and Carnival Island. Hit up the source link below for the full list of this week's content over on the PlayStation Blog.

The Oddworld games never set the world on fire with their sales, but they have heart. The passion so clearly put into developing the world is apparent with every scene in Oddworld: Stranger's Wrath HD. But with so much love and time put into crafting an enchanting alien world, it seems like some annoying design choices and anger-inducing levels slipped into the final product. Still, what's here entertains and makes for an experience worth the occasional slog...

If you weren't overwhelmed by the glut of new games in 2011, there were plenty of polished oldies to keep you occupied -- and we'll have to make room for one more of those before 2012 sets up shop. Oddworld: Stranger's Wrath HD is coming to the European PSN on December 21, and to the US store on December 27.

Headed by Gravity Crash developer Just Add Water, the Stranger's Wrath overhaul contains -- among other things -- upgraded character models, enriched environments, bug fixes, difficulty modifiers and even minor corrections to visual continuity. (Example: "Sekto's Office has been changed to more closely resemble that seen in the FMV.") You'll get all that for $14.99 (or £9.99), alongside the stuff we loved back in 2005: unusual weaponry, off-beat characters and, err, not-so-subtle commentary on the ecological devastation wrought by rampant consumerism and corporate expansion. It's Oddworld.

Just Add Water also announced via Twitter that the HD updates would come to the PC version of Stranger's Wrath within two to three months. The PlayStation 3 game will also get an update within a "couple months," adding the Move and 3D support that was planned but not implemented in time.

We already knew that Oddworld: Stranger's Wrath HD would be coming to PlayStation Network. We even knew that it's coming to PlayStation Vita, too. But now, we have a release date for the PlayStation Network iteration of the game. Look for it on December 27th...