I found my way to an interesting little interview with Lorne Lanning on Bitmob, by Toby Davis.
 
If you love the Oddworld universe and been waiting for its return, then there's some good news that arose:

1. First off, the studio have recently signed a deal with Sony, and both ' Abe's Oddysee' and ' Abe's Exoddus' will be appearing on PSN "very soon". I'm not sure if anything is being added/changed or if they're just being treated as a PS1 classics.
2. In addition to Oddysee/Exoddus, ' Munch's Oddysee' and ' Stranger's Wrath' will be compiled into 'The Oddbox', to be distributed this winter via Steam. 
3. "Regarding new material, we hope to have an announcement soon, but I’ve been saying that for awhile now so I’ll just shut up and hope for the best. "
   

Yup, Oddysee and Exodus are already on steam, bought em few days ago.  Incredible games worthy of any true gamers collection but be warned they can be brutally hard by today's standards.  Insta deaths if you misstime a run/jump and whatnot but still very much playable.  If you never played them they were both side scrolling platformer/puzzle titles released for ps1 and pc back in the mid ninties. What made them awesome was the world and characters as well as the story, truly one of the most unique and entertainingly creative franchises of all time.   The cgi cinematics that filled the games were and still are amazing.
 
Such a shame the sequels sold so terribly and how badly skrewed Oddworld Inhabitants were over the whole publishing of Strangers Wrath which was suppose to end up on ps2 but only released on Xbox around the time the console was on its last legs market wise.  I for one cant wait to finally get to play Strangers Wrath, wouldn't mind playing Munch again either. 

Abe on my PSP is a minor dream come true, awesome!
 
Follow me, follow me, I don't know, *fart*, *chant*, *laugh*.

I'd rather they'd added Quicksave to Oddysee - last I played it on Steam it was pretty much the same as the PSOne except it runs a whole lot faster on PC.  I kida prefered how deliberately paced those games were on PSOne.
 
Also, Stranger's Wrath was a helluva game.  I'd love for people to find it on Steam - so long as they fix the bad sound quality of the characters during gameplay - it's one of the best FPS' I've ever played.
 
And, finally, New Amazing Product from Oddworld?  Sweet.  Mind you, I've been hearing for the last 2 years that they're working on something.  First it was that movie they were planning called Citizen Siege, now it's a new game set on Oddworld?  Well, I can keep waiting.

 It's strange seeing this being bumped.
 
I only got to play a little bit of Stranger's Wrath on my mate's xbox. It was a brief look, but the game looked pretty cool; the gameplay and particularly the art design. I think I remember seeing an upgrade element to the game as you get money (or at least something to do with the ammo) which totally appealed to my RPG sensibilities. The bastard didn't even complete the game, even though I kept encouraging him to, rubbing it in my face. Bastard.
 
Oddly enough, I found out about a month ago that someone had already posted about this news on one of the forums before I had, though I can't remember where.

I thought Lorne Lanning said a long time ago that Oddworld Inhabitants was not doing more Oddworld games, but instead focusing on making movies and such based around Oddworld. 
 
If that's no longer true and a new Oddworld game is in the works...then sign me the fuck up!

I read today in this recent interview that Oddworld will be packaged into one big download and put on Steam soon.  That's something I'd pick up if the price was right (well, considering how Steam prices stuff, it'll be very reasonable).
Resolution Magazine - Interview | Lorne Lanning on Oddworld (page 3)