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Along with some game called Ikaruga.

One of my fondest hopes for this generation was to see a sequel to Rez show up on 360 and/or PS3. Today, that dream seems a little more realistic with the announcement at Microsoft's pre-TGS press briefing that RezHD will be appearing on Xbox Live Arcade in early 2008. It's not a sequel, but no Rez fan can complain about playing the game in HD and 5.1 surround sound. Plus, I don't think it's unreasonable to expect at least one new level or two, Tetsuya Mizuguchi pretty much promised it:

Personally, Rez has been and will always be a lifelong concept. I hope to take what I learned from the experience of creating the original game and look forward to taking it to a whole new level in the future.

See that? "A whole new level"! OK, maybe that's not what he meant, but it does give hope for the possibility of a sequel somewhere down the line.

This is one instance where they've got me at their mercy in terms of downloadable content. Rez's levels were all very self-contained, each based around an individual piece of music, so downloadable levels/songs would be perfect. Let's just hope they don't sell the game piece by piece. This is Q Entertainment we're talking about.

For all you Treasure fans out there, Ikaruga has also been reconfirmed for XBLA and should be out "soon". It has 2-player co-op but they don't specify whether that is local, online, or both…

[via 1up]