The first episode from Ritual's shooter has also reached Gold status yesterday, as the game's lead designer Shawn Ketcherside revealed in his blog on the official website. However this bunch won't be waiting for E3 to come, instead planing to release it at the beginning of May. SiN Episodes: Emergence began pre-loading through Steam a few days ago, and those who will pre-order the game before May 10th, using Valve's digital distribution platform, can get 10% off.

So Ritual can go back to work now on the second episode (from the total of 9 hinted on the game's website), and we can go take a drooling look over the latest screenshots - one of which features the "evil scientist" Elexis, in her lasciviously tight bikinis. These guys sure know a thing or two about marketing!

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