Prison Break may almost be finished on TV, but the video game is getting a second chance.
Before the series was killed at the end of its fourth season, the Prison Break video game was cancelled last spring by Brash Entertainment, the now defunct publisher of games based on movie and TV licences.
But Slovenia-based developer Zootfly, which was producing the game for Brash, decided to fund the project to completion.
It has just signed a deal with publisher Deep Silver, part of Britain-based Koch Media, to release Prison Break this spring.
"The cancellation was a blessing in disguise because we got to spend more time on the key gameplay features and get rid of the half-baked ideas Brash management pushed on us," Zootfly chief executive Bostjan Troha said from Slovenia.
Releasing a licensed video game when the property on which it's based no longer exists is a difficult business proposition, but Troha said he's counting on the show's loyal fan base, many of whom protested its death, to support the title.
The CEO said he's still working to secure some of the show's actors to do voice work.
Prison Break and Where the Wild Things Are, which is also set for a spring release but is still searching for a publisher, are the last of Brash's games that will see the light of day. - Ben Fritz.
