Lorne Lanning shows off Oddworld Soulstorm at Unity event.
Lorne Lanning shows off Oddworld Soulstorm at Unity event.
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Oddworld: Soulstorm visuals debuted at Unity event

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Lorne Lanning, the father of the long-running Oddworld video game series, showed off a scene from Oddworld: Soulstorm, a new game coming in 2020.

He showed the game trailer at Unity Technologies’ event at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco. The game is using the Unity game engine for its high-definition visuals.

Oddworld: Soulstorm is a re-imagining of the 1998 title Oddworld: Abe’s Exoddus, with a new story. It will serve as a direct sequel to Oddworld: New ‘n’ Tasty.

Soulstorm is set on the fictional planet Oddworld on its Mudos continent. Abe is the main character, and he saves 300 fellow Mudokons from the meat grinders of his employer, which grinds up the natives and serves them as food. Lanning said the game is a dark parable with a fresh story and game mechanics.

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Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat at VentureBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.