As the holiday season slowly approaches, more and more developers admit that one or more of their upcoming titles won’t be ready for release by this year’s end. The latest to the mix is Monolith Productions, whose art developer Dave Matthews recently unveiled at GC 2008 that Project Origin will be hitting retail in the first quarter of 2009.

Project Origin is the spiritual successor to the horror first-person shooter F.E.A.R. which continues the story of the freaky, psychic child Alma. Instead of reprising the role as the Point Man, gamers play as a Delta Force operator called Michael Becket, the game’s new protagonist. His mission is to arrest Armacham’s president, Genevieve Aristide, around thirty minutes before the ending of the original.

Source: IGN