While Dragon Age lead designer Mark Laidlaw says there are currently no plans for a sequel to BioWare's RPG Jade Empire, he says the company would be willing to tell another story in the Eastern-themed game.

"At this point, Jade Empire is a staff favorite and a lot of us love it, so we'd love to revisit it at some point," he said to Strategy Informer. "But right now, we are very focused on Dragon Age and Mass Effect 2."

Jade Empire was released on Xbox in 2005, eventually seeing a PC release in 2007. Rumors of a sequel were kick-started in 2008, when journalist Dean Takahashi claimed that he'd spoken with someone who could confirm the sequel was in development as an Xbox 360 exclusive.

The Xbox edition of BioWare's Jade Empire today hit the Xbox 360's online Xbox Live Marketplace, marking the latest addition to the downloadable Xbox Originals line.

Priced at 1,200 Microsoft Points ($15) and weighing in at 6.2 GB, the oriental action-RPG arrived on Xbox in 2005, followed by an enhanced PC version in 2007.

A sequel to the game was purportedly revealed last year, but no further details have arrived.

Today, after nearly a year and a half of being an Xbox exclusive, Jade Empire arrives on PC as Jade Empire: Special Edition. Is the game worth picking up if you haven't played it before? What about if you already own the Xbox version? Read my review to find out.

You earn quite a few styles as the game progresses, and in the Xbox original, it was more than a little annoying to constantly pause the game and remap fighting styles, as they could only be assigned to the four d-pad directions. The default keys for combat styles in the PC Special Edition are the number keys running along the top of the keyboard, which becomes convenient as you earn fighting styles faster and faster as the game progresses. The only time you will need to remap keys is to move older styles further down the list of commonly used styles; you'll spend quite a bit of time leveling up skills only to find better alternatives along the way, but even so, there's no reason to completely disregard a style you've spent so much time upgrading, as it could still come in handy at some point.