Atari has issued four more screenshots from The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena, Starbreeze's high-definition update to The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay.

Featuring a new 10-hour campaign and multiplayer support, as well as the content from the 2004 game, Assault on Dark Athena arrives on PC, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 next spring.

"They say hope begins in the dark," explains protagonist Richard B. Riddick, voiced and modeled after Riddick film star Vin Diesel. "In the end, everybody bleeds the same."

Packing a new 10-hour sequel along with a remake of the original The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay and a multiplayer mode, Starbreeze's The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena arrives on PC, PS3 and Xbox 360 in spring 2009.

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While we've known for a while that Starbreeze's The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena would be an enhanced remake of the previous Riddick game with new content, it turns out that the new content amounts to a 10-hour single-player sequel.

The new campaign packs "new game mechanics, full-game production values ... the works," according to Joystiq, with Big Download clarifying that the campaign is a "direct sequel" to the original and is immediately accessible upon booting the game.

The scope of the new campaign stems from the first-person shooter's recent publisher-related delay. After the game was dropped by ex-publisher Sierra, Atari picked the game up, a move that allowed for more than nine months of additional work.

Along with the new campaign, Athena will include a new multiplayer mode and an enhanced version of Starbreeze's 2004 release The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay (PC, Xbox). Expect Dark Athena to hit PC, PS3 and Xbox 360 in spring 2009.

As part of today's Atari Live press event, Atari has released a few new screenshots from Starbreeze's updated shooter The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena. A remake of The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay, Dark Athena packs an extra campaign, multiplayer modes and enhanced visuals over the 2004 PC and Xbox original. It's slated to arrive in PC, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 form next spring.

Atari announced it has nabbed the publishing rights to The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena, after Activision Blizzard dropped the Starbreeze Studios game following the Vivendi Games merger.

Originally announced as a remake of 2004's critically acclaimed The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay, Assault on Dark Athena will include an additional full-length campaign as well as online multiplayer support.

The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena had been announced as a PlayStation 3 / Xbox 360 project, but Atari today confirmed a PC version will be released as well.

Assault on Dark Athena will ship next spring.