Epic Games’ Cliff Blezsinski, while talking to Gamasutra (via NeoGAF), revealed that Shadow Complex 2, sequel to the awesome 2009 Xbox Live downloadable game, is actually complete. It has been developed almost fully, and Epic is now just looking for a partner to tie it off and get it published.

“Shadow Complex 2 is sitting there, it’s actually largely designed, we just need to find a partner that will help us to finish it so we can bring it to market,” Bleszinski said.

Shadow Complex 2 has long been rumoured to be in development, and Epic Games President Mike Capps even said at one point that its development was shelved since the devs were focusing on the iOS.

Let’s just hope they find a partner soon, because we absolutely loved Shadow Complex, and have been waiting for this announcement for a long time now.

Stay tuned, we’ll keep you updated.

Shadow Complex is an awesome game, truly, one of the best Xbox Live Arcade games on the scene, if not the best. We all loved it, and many of us go back to it and play it even today, two years after its release. We all have been wondering why Epic hasn’t till now announced a Shadow Complex 2, and now, Epic has told us why.

Because they thought there were better opportunities in mobile gaming, and they started working on Infinity Blade.

“The reviews were great, it was a record seller for a single-player game on the platform,” said Epic Games president Mike Capps at his GDC Europe keynote speech. “But at the same time we’ve got this mobile gaming push that’s coming in strong.”

“And the big thing for me was that we were looking at what the iPhone could do, and the games that were on iPhone, and we thought there was a huge gap,” he said. “So we put our engine team on the problem, and that’s where we came up with Infinity Blade. We were thinking about the sequel [to Shadow Complex], we were ready and ‘Maybe we should start working on this,’ and instead stopped everything and went and made Infinity Blade.”

But while Epic might be too focused on mobile gaming, and of course, PC and console games, Mike Caps added to “never say never” for a Shadow Complex sequel.

Fingers crossed.

There has been some talk of Shadow Complex 2 but now we have pretty much a confirmation that it will happen. Creative director, Donald Mustard has for the most part confirmed the Xbox Live Arcade sequel developed by Chair. In talks with Eurogamer, Donald stated “I’ll put it this way. More Shadow Complex isn’t a question of if, it’s a question of when. Shadow Complex is our baby and we love it dearly and, y’know, we’re working on some cool stuff.. That’s all I can say.” Donald went on to say that he is not a fan of porting games to iPhones or any iOS’s then mentioning that he “still cannot think of a way that we’d be able to bring over the precision controls [to touchscreen devices] that Shadow Complex needs to be amazing..” saying that “Shadow Complex is designed for a controller. I’m not a fan of trying to shoehorn console controls onto touch screens. They don’t feel right. You just lose so much precision.” This is something that I can respect and definitely agree with to a degree. But there you have it, Shadow Complex 2 is coming, keep it here to find out when.

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