{"id":34485,"date":"2012-03-21T15:24:12","date_gmt":"2012-03-21T13:24:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=34485"},"modified":"2012-03-22T10:18:18","modified_gmt":"2012-03-22T08:18:18","slug":"crystal-dynamics-working-on-new-soul-reaver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/34485-crystal-dynamics-working-on-new-soul-reaver","title":{"rendered":"Crystal Dynamics working on new Soul Reaver?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After almost ten years of deathlike slumber, is the vengeful vampire lord Kain to be re-awoken and unleashed upon this wicked world? Rumours say &#8220;yes&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s according to VG247, whose anonymous industry source has told the site that <a title=\"Company Information\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/12063-Crystal-Dynamics\">Crystal Dynamics<\/a> is working on a Soul Reaver reboot with a &#8220;new art direction&#8221;, which makes sense considering how much graphics technology has advanced since 2003.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s pretty much all there is to it for the moment, though. Make of it what you will.<\/p>\n<p>The first two Soul Reaver games were part of the critically acclaimed Legacy of Kain series, starting with Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain back in 1996.<\/p>\n<p>The first game was developed in cooperation between Crystal Dynamics and <a title=\"Company Information\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/19940-Silicon-Knights\">Silicon Knights<\/a>, but after a heap of legal drama, Crystal Dynamics acquired the rights to the brand on condition that Silicon Knights be credited as the original creator in future releases.<\/p>\n<p>The studio is currently busy with the Tomb Raider reboot, due to launch later this year.<\/p>\n<h5>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vg247.com\/2012\/03\/20\/rumour-crystal-dynamics-working-on-soul-reaver-reboot\/\" target=\"_blank\">VG247<\/a><\/h5>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Related Articles<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Tomb Raider not coming to Wii U, confirmed for Mac OS\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/31506-tomb-raider-not-coming-to-wii-u-confirmed-for-mac-os.html\">Tomb Raider not coming to Wii U, confirmed for Mac OS<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Tomb Raider devs working on new IP\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/30069-tomb-raider-devs-working-on-new-ip.html\">Tomb Raider devs working on new IP<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blood-sucking is back in fashion<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":159,"featured_media":34524,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[31,213,773,2814,2815,201],"class_list":["post-34485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-active","tag-crystal-dynamics","tag-rumour","tag-silicon-knights","tag-soul-reaver","tag-tomb-raider"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/159"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34485"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34525,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34485\/revisions\/34525"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}