Ritual Entertainment and Valve today announced that SiN Episode 1: Emergence will be available in retail outlets on May 12th, 2006. Distributed throughout Europe, North America, Australia and New Zealand by Electronic Arts, Emergence is the first in a new series of episodic adventures from Ritual that are powered by the award-winning Source game engine technology developed by Valve.

SiN Episode 1: Emergence, available for the PC, will offer explosive first person shooter experiences that reintroduce and re-imagine the world of SiN for the new millennium. Emergence, the first in this series of episodic adventures, expands on the role of Colonel John R. Blade and features never before seen weapons, characters, and environments.