Amanita Design, the guys who created the fantastic Machinarium point and click adventure game, were on hand in Nottingham’s GameCity festival to premiere their newest game Botanicula which we’ve already covered a bit in the past.

According to Eurogamer, Botanicula is “more simple and accessible than Amanita Design’s previous adventure games. It is based on humour, not complex puzzles.” Which can be taken either way depending on how challenging you thought Machinarium was.
In any case, the big news is that Botanicula is planned for release around February of 2012 which means it’ll only be a few months until we all get to play it first hand!

In other Amanita news, lead developer Jakub Dvorsky has stated that the PS3 version of Machinarium will be released sometime this Winter. No firm launch date, but I’m assuming that means sometime between December-March, with the studio forgoing a February release date so as to not interfere with Botanicula’s release.

We’ll be following Botanicula’s progress as the release date nears.

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