Ashes Cricket 2013 delayed

Title to launch during second series later this year.

505 Games has today announced that the release of Ashes Cricket 2013 has been postponed until later this year.

The move is to allow developers Trickstar time to add more polish to the game, because according to a statement from 505 the title is: "simply not worthy of the Ashes name."

Ashes Cricket 2013 was originally planned for release in June, but that date was then pushed back to July. Now it seems that cricket fans will have to wait until November to get their hands on the game, during the second Ashes series that is taking place in Australia.

505 Games' Tim Woodley said: "It is hugely disappointing that 505 Games has had to make this announcement today. We all had high hopes of bringing out a stellar cricket game during the first leg of this unprecedented Ashes year. But the fact of the matter is, we took a long hard look at the game as it stands and decided it simply wasn't good enough in its current state. It was simply not worthy of the Ashes name."

He then added: "Unforeseen issues which developer Trickstar faced in latter stages of development have meant that they have been unable to do the requisite amount of polishing and fine-tuning which any game needs. We owe it to ourselves, to our licensors, the ECB and Cricket Australia, but most of all to the dedicated cricket fans and gamers to put our best foot forward."