I emailed Kotaku about this a few days ago but they don't seem to be interested so here you go:
I just read this interview with comic book artist Dave Gibbons which contains an interesting little tidbit regarding the Broken Sword series:
http://www.denofgeek.com/comics/59800/i ... _more.html"How involved are you in the development of new videogames?
I've been a little bit involved with an old friend of mine called Charles Cecil of Revolution, who are a respected games publisher – they do adventure games. I've been helping him recently to update some resources to convert a game called Broken Sword to some new platforms. It's largely drawing on my skill as a comic-book illustrator, rather than any great knowledge of videogames. So my involvement, I suppose, is peripheral."
According to the Revolution Software forum FAQ:
http://www.revolution.co.uk/_forum.php? ... ds_project:
"Rumours have been circulating about the next Revolution game for a long time. Towards the end of 2007, Tony Warriner (tonyw) stated on the forum that details of a new game are on the way. Charles Cecil mentioned in a telephone interview with One Life Left (March 18, 2008), that a "DS project" is in the works, and more details will be available soon. Information about the project is currently under wraps until the publisher gives the go ahead to divulge more information."
Meanwhile, a story printed in British magazine N-Revolution (via Cubed3:
http://www.cubed3.com/news/9950) states that Revolution are working on a Broken Sword DS game that "[is] not a straight port. It's not even a Director's cut with extras thrown in for the sake of it. It may have had one of the most stunning openings of any game in history, but the new Broken Sword will go back in time. It will look at George Stobbart's life before an explosion in a Parisian cafe rocked his world. And it will let us see what the stunning Nico was up to prior to reporting on the intriguing events which unfolded throughout the original game."
According to a post by Tony Warriner on the Revolution forum (
http://www.revolution.co.uk/_forum.php? ... n=1&page=1), "all the effort has gone into creating the new content, in the same style, rather than re-doing the original", so this wouldn't appear to be a complete reworking of the game's graphics but hey, it's more Broken Sword, right? They could get a 4-year-old to draw it in crayon and I'd still be throwing money at them to get it on the day of release.
Incidentally, may I just draw your attention back to Dave's original quote; he refers to "new platforms" plural, so let the rampant speculation begin; personally, my money's on PC and Wii, a combination many are already calling "PWii".