Rumors: Rez sequel, Spielberg's LMNO on hold and more from EGM

by Ross Miller { Dec 10th 2008 at 3:50PM }

Beyond Gears of War 3 for 2010, the January 2009 issue of the future-uncertain EGM contains a handful of other rumors to pique your interest (via NeoGAF). Top of that list? A spiritual sequel to Rez is coming from creator Tetsuya Mizuguchi, who can't make an actual sequel beacuse the IP is owned by Sega. Mizuguchi's Q Entertainment recently announced a music-infused project codenamed "QJ" for Wii, though it may be unrelated.

Additionally, the issue also asserted that Spielberg's mysterious EA Project LMNO is on hold at the moment. At the end of October, EA denied speculation that there had been layoffs related to the title. The remaining rumor-mongering includes a new Rifts-licensed game in 2010 (the last one was on N-Gage) and a large co-publisher for Tecmo's PlayStation 3 exclusive Quantum Theory.

Tags: egm, lmno, mizuguchi, project-lmno, q, q-entertainment, quantum-theory, rez, rifts, rumor, rumors, spielberg, stephen-spielberg, tecmo, tetsuya-mizuguchi

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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Anon Coward @ Dec 10th 2008 4:05PM

Given the past creative uses of the game Rez, "QJ" probably stands for "QuickieJob" :D

LeadBoxx @ Dec 10th 2008 4:06PM

They laid off Spielberg? OH NOES!

Bucket @ Dec 10th 2008 4:11PM

Spiritual sequel, whatever. Just make it so I can trip balls and it'll be worth it.

Biff_McFresh @ Dec 10th 2008 4:32PM

My sentiments exactly.

Dirty @ Dec 10th 2008 5:10PM

Don't forget to bring a towel.

Malex @ Dec 10th 2008 7:03PM

Don't forget the Trance Vibrator.

D_Average @ Dec 10th 2008 4:19PM

Please bring Rez HD to PSN first.

Evan @ Dec 10th 2008 4:33PM

Rez is a great game. I can't wait to hear the details of QJ.

Ranus Studios @ Dec 10th 2008 4:45PM

Rez sequel pleasepleasepleasepleaseplease.

JWC @ Dec 10th 2008 5:35PM

To me, Rifts is a pen and paper RPG. Is the Rifts in this post the same thing? Kinda hard to answer this one via google...

Markusdragon @ Dec 10th 2008 5:50PM

That's the one, yeah.

AoE @ Dec 10th 2008 5:58PM

The richness of the Rifts universe makes it great for potential video game spinoffs imo. I mean it vastly increases the chances of the game having a solid story and a thought out universe in which to have said story take place... something that most games lack.

Plus, after years of playing Rifts when I was a kid... I have to say I'd love to revisit it in video game form. As long as it looks like the cover-art for the books does that is...