One of the most fondly remembered yet neglected platform heroes to emerge from the 16-bit era was Sparkster: an armour wearing, rocket-powered opossum. Well it’s good news for opossum lovers everywhere with Konami’s recent announcement that the neglected critter will be making a return to our screens in a new game released across Xbox Live, PSN and Steam sometime next year.

News about the game is pretty thin on the ground at the moment, but this is what we know so far: the game is being developed by Climax (Silent Hill: Shattered Memories), will be 2.5D, set 15 years after the first game, and take a steampunk meets Crash Bandicoot approach to its visuals.

We’ll keep you posted about more developments about the game as and when we hear anything.

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