The super-spy action-RPG Alpha Protocol has had an . . . interesting development history. The Obsidian Entertainment developed game was supposed to be released last October by publisher Sega but then retailers pushed the game's release back to the spring 2010. Sega finally admitted to the delay after the game was supposed to originally ship to stores.

Now Sega has apparently been showing the game to journalists and MTV's Multiplayer blog has posted word that Alpha Protocol has been pushed back yet again to sometime in the summer of this year. That means the game could be delayed nearly a year after its October 2009 release date. It's probably just as well. A Sega exec stated in the MTV article that they decided to delay the game the first time because, "We really wanted to polish the game up, make it everything Obsidian planned it to be, and give the consumer a very polished game." Works for us.