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It may have had a somewhat round-the-houses route to Nintendo hardware, but Nintendo gamers finally got to play The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth on both the Wii U and New 3DS. The man behind those games, Edmund McMillen, has now announced another project on that title's blog.

The Legend of Bum-bo is "is a turn based puzzle RPG type thingy thats randomly generated". McMillen will handle 2D art, writing and design while James Id will be working on programming and 3D art; Matthias Bossi and Jon Evans will be producing the soundtrack.

More teases and details are promised as the year progresses, but the announcement on the Binding of Isaac blog - and the following quote - suggests it will be related to that title.

but why is this on the isaac blog!? what does this have to do with isaac!? when isaac!? isaac? isaac! why!?

well im sure those questions will be answered in the coming months once we tease a bit more.[sic]

Though Binding of Isaac took a while to transition to Wii U and New 3DS, if this title coincides with the NX generation of hardware we can only hope that the new system will receive titles like this in line with platforms like PC, PS4 and Xbox One. Time will tell.

[source bindingofisaac.com, via eurogamer.net]