The Last Guardian, Ico and Shadow of the Colossus delayed, News from GamePro

Today brings bad news for anyone eagerly awaiting the Team Ico HD collection as well as its new game: delays.

SCEE has announced via thePlayStation Blogthat both theIco and Shadow of the Colossus: The CollectionandThe Last Guardianhave been delayed from their launch timeframes of spring 2011 and holiday 2011 respectively. There's no news yet on their revised release dates.

"I announced at last year's Tokyo Game Show that the release timing of The Last Guardian... would be holiday 2011,"said game director Fumito Ueda."However, to provide more challenging and better quality to content to users and to fulfil First Party Studio's obligations, I decided to postpone its release timing. I sincerely apologize to all the customers who have been waiting for The Last Guardian for so long, but I beg for your patience. I will also announce the new release timing at a later time."

Ah well. What's a few more months?

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