PlayStation 3 is well-known for its robust catalog of exclusives, but as far as development stories are concerned revolving those exclusives, Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time's might be the most interesting. Sanzaru Games, the studio taking the franchise over from Sucker Punch, began developing Sly 4 without Sony's permission. Yet, Sony was so impressed by what they saw that they commissioned Sanzaru to port the PS2 Sly Cooper games to PS3 while giving Sanzaru their blessing to continue working on what we now know as Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time.
Unfortunately, ever since hearing Sanzaru's fascinating story and seeing Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time in action at this year's E3 in June, all has been quiet. But today on the PlayStation Blog, more has finally been revealed about Sly's new adventure, which is primed to come exclusively to PlayStation 3 in 2012.

Egan is ready to show-off one of these ancestors in particular, a ninja named Rioichi Cooper, who hails originally from the first Sly Cooper on PlayStation 2. His Leaping Dragon Technique will purportedly come in handy when he has to jump over gigantic gaps and chasms. He also happens to own a restaurant that Sly and his team hide-out in when there's a lull in the action.

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