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As promised, game developer David Jaffe has finally announced – in a move many expected – details of his new development studio located, not surprisingly, in Utah. Titled Eat, Sleep, Play, the new studio is a partnership with Incognito chief Scott Campbell who worked with Jaffe on the popular Twisted Metal series while both were at SCEA. With Ingognito’s Warhawk about to take flight on PS3 and Jaffe having just finished Calling All Cars, the two are finally ready to branch out on their own … but it’s hard to get away from the mothership Sony. They’ve “signed on for a multi-year, multi-title deal to create titles for the PlayStation family of products, with the first slated for release in 2008.”

It’s not clear if that includes their first project, a PlayStation 2 port of the PSP’s Twisted Metal: Head On with some notable tweaks: bumped to 60 frames per second, higher-res textures, “5-7 levels from the never released Twisted Metal Black: Part II,” and “a documentary on the history of the series.” Jaffe surmises it may be some eight to twelve months before we hear about these new titles, but Twisted Metal: Head On will be available this holiday season.

I was really hoping for Twisted Metal Black 2 or the like for the PS3 but I can deal with a revamped and enhanced TM:HO. I’ll surely pick it up. Too bad it probably won’t have online support.

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Hey! We are going to be shooting a documentary/round table discussion on the Twisted Metal series. The piece will be used for something I can’t talk about right now (sorry about that!) but for those out there who consider themselves fans of the series, I was hoping you could do us a favor:

We are trying to make a list of the issues/questions we want to address in the doc and we want to make sure we hit the things Twisted Metal fans want to know about.

I love Twisted Metal. It was the first game I bought for the original PSX. Twisted Metal Black was amazing. Head-On was the reason I picked up the PSP. I hope this doc means a PS3 sequel is in the works.