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Limbo Creators Working On New IP Targeted At Fans

Who else is ready to pull the legs off another giant spider?

Playdead Studios, the developer behind Xbox Live Arcade darling Limbo, is in the process of creating a new title. Normally, this wouldn't be a newsworthy kind of story--games studios make games because, well, that's what they do. But it's nice to hear confirmation that the small, super indie Denmark-based house can continue working on new games after, apparently, receiving enough profit from its first release. 

Oh, yeah, and this new title? It's a completely fresh IP that fans of Limbo will apparently be able to get behind, according to studio CEO Dino Patti. Speaking with Joystiq during an event in California this past weekend, Patti said this new game will "be for [fans of Limbo]." He elaborated by stating, "The gameplay style you'll really like. You'll feel it's the same team who made it, but everything will be changed."
 
Here's our Quick Look of Limbo, if you missed it for whatever reason. It's a unique and punishing platformer that's big on atmosphere and puzzle solving. Also, giant spiders and spikes. 

  
Quick Look: Limbo

Brad and Vinny wake up in the creepiest forest known to man.

  

It's obviously early in the game making process, so Patti isn't sure if this new IP will be an exclusive title like Limbo remains on Xbox Live Arcade, but he told Joystiq that the goal is, of course, to get this new game into as many hands as possible. We'll have to see. 
KarlHunguson Oct. 11, 2010 at 10:31 a.m.
Sadly I have no Xbox to enjoy this on...
Gapon Oct. 11, 2010 at 10:32 a.m.
Reminds me of Salad Fingers.
snetErzon Oct. 11, 2010 at 10:35 a.m.
Be interesting to see what they do next.
Death_Unicornon Oct. 11, 2010 at 10:35 a.m.
Define: super indie.
JacDGon Oct. 11, 2010 at 10:36 a.m.
Reminds me, I still need to finish that game, nothing really drives me though, don't find the game super interesting to play, although the setting and atmosphere is superb.
MJHAYLETTon Oct. 11, 2010 at 10:39 a.m.
on PC and PS3 this time please
BigChiefon Oct. 11, 2010 at 10:42 a.m.
PC and/or PS3, please. It's killing me that I can't play Limbo, it looks amazing!
Kyreoon Oct. 11, 2010 at 10:43 a.m.
@MJHAYLETT said:
" on PC and PS3 this time please "

HandsomeDeadon Oct. 11, 2010 at 10:48 a.m.
Cheers, Nicholson, for letting us know a game developer is making a game and that it's going to be for people who enjoyed their last game. Such groundbreaking journalism confirms that this year's Pulitzer prize is headed your way.
OldManLighton Oct. 11, 2010 at 10:48 a.m.
@Death_Unicorn like indie but even better
Redbullet685on Oct. 11, 2010 at 10:48 a.m.
Can't wait
Teslaon Oct. 11, 2010 at 10:49 a.m.
I really enjoyed Limbo.  The minimalist style works with the visuals, but not so much with the actual gameplay.  Hopefully this next game is improved in that area.
bue255@hotmail.comon Oct. 11, 2010 at 10:53 a.m.
Limbo took 4 years to make.. I'm hoping the get the next game out a tad faster.
Spaceyoghurton Oct. 11, 2010 at 10:54 a.m.
Wonderful news for us fans, and a well deserved success for the developers. Just hoping they can pull of something similar with this next IP. 
Ronaldon Oct. 11, 2010 at 11:01 a.m.
@Death_Unicorn said:
" Define: super indie. "
An indie that's disguised as a mild mannered reporter, but when a new game has to come out, off come the glasses and the shirt to become a Super Indie.
ajamafalouson Oct. 11, 2010 at 11:02 a.m.
@HandsomeDead said:
" Cheers, Nicholson, for letting us know a game developer is making a game and that it's going to be for people who enjoyed their last game. Such groundbreaking journalism confirms that this year's Pulitzer prize is headed your way. "
Yep.
MarkWahlbergon Oct. 11, 2010 at 11:09 a.m.
@Kyreo said:
" @MJHAYLETT said:
" on PC and PS3 this time please "

"
oh christ. oh my god his neck. what ... what is his neck... oh no
AngryRedPlumberon Oct. 11, 2010 at 11:15 a.m.
Excited!
blevokon Oct. 11, 2010 at 11:19 a.m.
2013, i bet
hypersnegl@gmail.comon Oct. 11, 2010 at 11:38 a.m.
Playdead makes me insanely proud to be a Dane :)
 
Very excited about this!

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A little boy seeks to rescue his lost sister from a dreary, dangerous world in this puzzle-platformer that kicked off the Summer of Arcade in 2010.

US Release Date: July 21, 2010

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