Contrary to rumours on the Net, Eidos' massive adventure is merely pushed back to 2000

Eidos Interactive have confirmed the real story about Omikron: The Nomad Soul. The game is not cancelled. It's been delayed, Eidos said today. The correct story was originally posted on FGNOnline on Wednesday, but another site misconstrued the information on Thursday, stating that Omikron had been cancelled.

"The game is on hold," said an Eidos official. "Basically we're focusing on the PC version right now and after that we'll refocus on the PlayStation version. Why? Omikron is very vast. This game is going to take a gamer 60-80 hours of gameplay to complete. It's got four different chapters. So, we have to get the PC version out this year, at the beginning of December. And we can then put our resources into the PlayStation version."

Eidos explained that the PlayStation version would arrive sometime next year. Eidos wouldn't be more specific. "We don't know what quarter just yet."

Omikron is the story of a bewildered man who must unfold a mystery in a huge futuristic city, in which he'll take on the forms of different people through a technically advanced morphing ability. There seems to be some name confusion here - the last we heard was that Eidos were going to drop the Omikron part and call it simply The Nomad Soul.

Courtesy of IGN.com