Riddick PC is 'Developer's Cut'

The PC version of The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape From Butcher Bay will be a special "Developer's Cut" version, publisher Vivendi-Universal Games confirmed this week, although there's no word yet on what sort of changes Swedish developer Starbreeze has decided to make to the critically acclaimed first-person action game. The PC Riddick is due out in the US this December.

We should have a better idea of the Developer's Cut contents next week, however, as Vivendi plans to demonstrate the game at the World Cyber Games championship event in San Francisco - an odd choice of venue given the game's lack of multiplayer options, although we do wonder if that's coincidence. Although the Xbox version was well received, some did complain about the lack of multiplayer, which the developer was rather bemused by at the time. Perhaps there's been some change there.

Either way, the single-player alone was rightfully revered as a clever and absorbing change to the traditional console FPS, and it'll be interesting to see how it fares in the tougher PC first-person shooter market, where its technical advances carry less weight. We'll let you know what we think when we get our hands on it later this year.