Kung-Fu Hustle

While Sony Online hasn't been secretive about the fact that it had a Taiwan-based wing named Soga, the company also hasn't been terribly vocal about just what that studio was doing. Aside from Asianizing a few EQ II models, for all we knew, the folks at Soga were just over there watching God of Cookery and Shaolin Soccer DVDs over and over. Little did we know they were actually hard at work on a videogame adaptation of another of actor/writer/director/everything movies guy Stephen Chow's

Friday 11 May 2007 A PC game based on the ace martial arts movie Kung Fu Hustle is being developed by Sony Online Entertainment and Shanghai Northstar, specifically for the Chinese market. The game will be a free-to-play online brawler, with optional fees for extra lives, weapons and so-on. The development team is working closely with the movie's director, Stephen Chow, who is reportedly an avid gamer. His sense of humour will be present in the game, as will familiar characters such as Sin,

Gamasutra reports that Sony Online Entertainment has announced the first details of its online multiplayer Kung Fu Hustle, based on the Stephen Chow movie of the same name and developed by its Taipei-based SOGA studio specifically for the Chinese market. Sony Online says the game will combine the best elements of classic fighting games from the past and adds compelling character designs, new technology and trademark humor from the movie for a new generation of gamers.