JoWooD Productions and DreamCatcher Games have announced that they have signed Homegrown Games, a small independent Austrian developer, to develop the next chapter in the Painkiller franchise - “Painkiller: Resurrection” – which is set for a holiday 2009 release.

employees and gaming guys from the community. The current task in our development cycle is the campaign with new levels, new monsters, new bosses and a new story, all in typical Painkiller style." says Johann Ertl, Head of Development at Homegrown Games.

Once more, it is up to the protagonist to find a way out of a grotesque world between heaven and hell, trapped between life and death. The development of Painkiller: Resurrection is based on the technology of the Painkiller engine, but with several improvements, including improved shadows, a higher texture resolution, moveable light sources, post processing, motion blur and ambient occlusion were implemented, as well as a coop-multiplayer campaign mode.