The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena is an upcoming science fiction first-person action game for the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and Microsoft Windows. The game is a sequel to The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay, which has been remade and will be included along with the Assault on Dark Athena campaign. The game will be released on April 7, 2009. A demo was released on Xbox Live on March 4, 2009, with a PlayStation Network release following on March 12, 2009.
The game is being developed by Starbreeze Studios and will be published by Atari. According to Ian Stevens, Head of Production at Tigon, the decision to do a remake was because Microsoft could not make the Xbox 360 backward compatible with Escape from Butcher Bay, and because they wanted to get the Escape story to a larger audience before progressing further.
Dark Athena is expected to have improved graphics and AI from Escape along with the addition of a multiplayer mode. The single player mode will also be expanded to include Riddick escaping onto a mercenary ship called Dark Athena.
Vin Diesel, the voice and likeness of the title character, will be involved in the production of Assault on Dark Athena.