Scribblenauts studio 5th Cell delays release of Xbox Live Arcade third-person shooter into next year following GDC reception.

5th Cell first announced its Xbox Live Arcade effort Hybrid in October, but it wasn’t until this year’s Game Developers Conference in March that the game got its first real exposure. From that debut, 5th Cell learned at least one thing: Hybrid isn’t going to be ready for its previously announced 2011 launch window.

Today, the studio said that it has bumped Hybrid into 2012. The game has thus far only been announced for Xbox Live, but studio head Jeremiah Slaczka indicated to GameSpot that it may also see release on additional platforms.

“Hybrid was very well received this past GDC; people really seemed to enjoy it,” Slaczka said of the delay. “But with an additional year, we can take what we’ve learned and really drill down on our ideas to hopefully transform this game into something great.”

A marked departure from 5th Cell’s previous work on franchises such as Scribblenauts and Drawn to Life, Hybrid is a third-person shooter in which two rival factions wage war in a postapocalyptic world. In addition to its single-player campaign, gamers will also be able to battle it out in persistent-world online modes.