pFiled under: a href="http://www.joystiq.com/category/ps3/" rel="tag"Sony PlayStation 3/a, a href="http://www.joystiq.com/category/xbox360/" rel="tag"Microsoft Xbox 360/a, a href="http://www.joystiq.com/category/action/" rel="tag"Action/a/pdiv align="center"a href="http://www.joystiq.com/photos/the-chronicles-of-riddick-assault-on-dark-athena/1198103/full/"img vspace="4" hspace="0" border="1" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.joystiq.com/media/2008/12/riddick.dark.athena.490.jpg" alt="" //abr / div align="left" div align="center"emsmallclick to enlarge/small/em/div It's a href="http://www.joystiq.com/2008/10/30/riddick-remake-and-maybe-ghostbusters-go-to-atari/"no secret/a that Atari rescued Starbreeze Studios' a href="http://www.joystiq.com/2007/05/22/riddick-remake-confirmed-for-ps3-xbox-360/"hi-def remake/a of a href="http://www.joystiq.com/tag/riddick"emThe Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay/em/a after Activision-Blizzard a href="http://www.joystiq.com/2008/07/28/blizzavision-keeps-crash-spyro-ice-age-prototype-loses-bruta/"kicked it to the curb/a. What you don't know - and emwe/em didn't know until we recently saw it in action - is that those added "Dark Athena" levels are quite substantial. They've been expended into an entirely new, 10-plus-hour campaign, complete with new game mechanics, full-game production values ... the works.br /br /Starbreeze told us that, despite the game being a href="http://www.joystiq.com/2007/08/11/riddicks-next-gen-remake-delayed-until-2008/"absent from anyone's radar/a for quite some time, it never let up on development. In fact, the acquisition of the game by Atari has afforded the team upwards of nine additional months of development time, hence the (essentally) second full game and what the team was visibly ecstatic about: more time to polish every last detail.br /br /emThe Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena /em(emEscape from Butcher's Bay /emis still there, looks amazing, and will incorporate new gameplay and tech developed for emDark Athena/em) is set for release in spring of 2009. Check back tomorrow for our full impressions of the new campaign.br /div class="postgallery"pstrongGallery: a href="%GalleryURL%"The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena/a/strong/pa href="/gallery/the-chronicles-of-riddick-assault-on-dark-athena/1198103/"img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.joystiq.com/media/2008/12/athena_putemup_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" //aa href="/gallery/the-chronicles-of-riddick-assault-on-dark-athena/1198102/"img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.joystiq.com/media/2008/12/athena_mercbiggun_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" //aa href="/gallery/the-chronicles-of-riddick-assault-on-dark-athena/1198101/"img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.joystiq.com/media/2008/12/athena_lurking_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" //a/div/div /divp style="padding:5px;background:#ddd;border:1px solid #ccc;clear:both;"a href="http://www.joystiq.com/2008/12/02/riddick-dark-athena-coming-early-09-features-new-10-hour-camp/"Riddick: Dark Athena coming early '09, features new 10-hour campaign/a originally appeared on a href="http://www.joystiq.com"Joystiq/a on Tue, 02 Dec 2008 16:00:00 EST. Please see our a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/"terms for use of feeds/a./pp style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"nbsp;/ppa href="http://www.joystiq.com/2008/12/02/riddick-dark-athena-coming-early-09-features-new-10-hour-camp/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"Permalink/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.joystiq.com/forward/1389015/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"Email this/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.joystiq.com/2008/12/02/riddick-dark-athena-coming-early-09-features-new-10-hour-camp/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"Comments/a/p pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/ILPgEJ_jpGEzhN4-9gQ2SDX_VmQ/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/ILPgEJ_jpGEzhN4-9gQ2SDX_VmQ/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/joystiq?a=rqJPqcAL"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/joystiq?i=rqJPqcAL" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/joystiq?a=S887Kfhv"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/joystiq?i=S887Kfhv" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/weblogsinc/joystiq/~4/6zXr8rheHWI" height="1" width="1"/