Following Doug Lombardi's announcement that games from other developers delivered via Steam would be revealed over the coming weeks, Ritual have confirmed the sequel to the 1998 shooter SiN will see a Winter release on the platform. The latest issue of PC Gamer has an exclusive feature on the game, entitled SiN Episodes, and reveals the individual episodes will be released every three to four months at a price of around $20 each.
The collaboration between Valve and Ritual seems a little strange, since the original SiN game was billed as a "Half-Life killer" when it was released in 1998.
It also included digs at Valve, including one section that warned the player "Do Not Play With Valve"; twisting the valve the warning displayed on resulted in an explosion and major damage to the player.
The two companies appear to have made up their differences though, with SiN Episodes even utilizing a modified version of the Source engine.
Ritual CEO Steve Nix also said:
We've been talking to Valve about Steam for about four years now, and we've always wanted to get back to the SiN universe.
We talked to publishers about doing it, but we never felt able to make the product we wanted to make with the next SiN.
SiN Episodes gets Steam release
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Official website for SiN
SiN on the Wikipedia
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