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Retail PC Insecticide coming soon? 01 Jan, 2009, 19:01 / 6 comments


The "bi-sodic" release of the PC version of Insecticide has decidedly gone less than smoothly. While the DS version was released this past March, Crackpot and Gamecock elected to release the far superior PC version in two parts via digital distribution, the first of which was made available this past summer, the second of which...we're still waiting on. Whether or not this is the result of development problems or if it's simply something on the publisher's end (Gamecock was recently bought out), it's sort of a sucky situation for people who've been anticipating this story game on a platform where the voice acting is preserved and the detail and draw distance of the environments actually do Ahern's art style justice.

Over on the forums today though, Ascovel noticed an Amazon.co.uk page for a boxed PC version of Insecticide slated for February 28th, and a quick search on the US Amazon site reveals a similar product page, this one with a purported release date of tomorrow. (Sure.)

While one shouldn't get too excited until we get confirmation or somebody's order has shipped (about six months ago a similar PC release appeared and disappeared from Amazon), it's certainly possible that a PC retail release of the whole game is coming, as it was said to have always been the plan after the online release. I have no idea what's going on with Part 2 on the digital distribution end, but it sure would be nice for this game to finally be out. We'll keep you posted.
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  • Ascovel on 03 Jan, 2009, 11:11…
    Anyone can confirm if it's already eligible from the US Amazon?
  • Udvarnoky on 03 Jan, 2009, 23:13…
    Its currently says, "usually ships in 1 to 3 months" which probably just means it doesn't actually exist (yet).
  • Ascovel on 07 Jan, 2009, 23:23…
    And now the official site has gone out of order. What's going on there? Maybe I'm to interested in Part 2 for my own good.
  • Ascovel on 07 Jan, 2009, 20:55…
    Too bad. Let's hope the UK release date is more accurate.
  • Ascovel on 02 Jan, 2009, 00:41…
    Maybe the dates are off, but at least it looks that something is going on and the insects will hatch soon.
  • Kroms on 02 Jan, 2009, 04:27…
    Whoo! That makes me all giddy!