Shatter remaster for current-gen consoles seems set for a 2022 release
<p class="">A remake or remaster is seemingly being released for current generation consoles sometime in 2022.</p>
I missed the memo that a remake of the PS3 classic arcade game Shatter was being remastered, but it’s happening. The brick-breaker took the gameplay many knew and added a hyper-visual style, fantastic soundtrack and boss battles and was a critical success during the early days of downloadable games. And it now sounds like we can expect a remastered version of the game to release sometime in 2022 for the current generation of consoles.
Back in 2018, during a Resetera thread discussing Shatter, ‘MarioW’ who works at PikPok, gave an update on the team who made Shatter back in 2010 as Sidhe.
“So, Shatter then… well, we’ve looked at a life for the game beyond where it was, and investigated bringing it to iPad a couple of times over the years. However, the code and visuals are a bit of a nightmare to port given some engineering choices. We haven’t looked at a Switch version, and that may be a possibility, but nobody has looked at it as we are slammed right now until the end of the year. We’d certainly appreciate people buying it on PC/Mac in the meantime.”
Later on in the thread, after some more discussion, ‘MarioW’ came back to say, “[there are] details to sort through (so I can’t make definitive statements about timing and platforms), but Shatter will be coming to modern consoles.” And since then, there’s been a semi-constant update on high a remake/remaster of Shatter has been going.
The most recent update came this morning when ‘MarioW’ said an external team (not saying who) had finished their work on the post.
“We spun up an internal team about a month ago to handle the remaster aspects of the exercise. That includes reworking the user onboarding, UI, colour grading, effects, menus, etc. We are also just looking at whether a 5.1 mix of the soundtrack is viable.
Can’t talk about platforms, pricing, or release timing as yet, other than to say “early next year” is the window to keep an eye on.”
Later in the thread, someone asks about a VR version similar to Tetris Effect, but nothing like that is currently planned for Shatter.
Would you be excited to play Shatter for the first time? Or play it again if you were a big fan back when it was released on PS3? Let me know in the comments section.
Dylan Blight
[He/Him] Dylan Blight is the Founder and Editor-in-Chief of Explosion Network, an independent Australian publication covering video games, film, television and pop culture. Since founding Explosion Network in 2017, Dylan has written and produced reviews, news, interviews, features and podcasts across the entertainment industry, while overseeing the publication's editorial direction and content.
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