Two years after announcing his retirement alongside the reveal that Electronic Arts passed on his big pitch for a third Alice game—and five months after lamenting a relative lack of fan enthusiasm for that effort—American McGee is back at it with plans for a new project. Inspired by his bestselling Plushie Dreadfuls line, the game will ostensibly serve as a "spiritual sequel" to Alice Returns, the second game in what ultimately became just a duology.
McGee's history in games development goes all the way back to Doom and Quake, but he became a household name in the cult-classic horror scene for the Alice titles. EA rejected an ambitious proposal for a long-awaited trilogy-capper, and McGee effectively took his toys and went home. Yet, after being struck by the joy expressed by Japanese fans at his Plushie Dreadfuls pop-up shop, he's found a new lease on life with an official video game project set within this Alice-esque universe.
As GamesRadar reveals, the Plushie Dreadfuls merch line serves as the root of McGee's ambitions. These, well, plushies have been created in collaboration with American McGee's own spouse, Yeni Zhang, and the genesis of their highly-successful project began...
