http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2013-02-12/ghost-in-the-shell/arise-anime-details-outlined

Trailer.
GitS Arise Terrible OP Thingie

It's pretty obviously a prequel. They're showing what appears to be the major getting her adult cyborg body for the first time and being recruited into Section 9 by a non-grey haird Aramaki.

People are complaining about the non-Yoko Kanno music and that the Major is doing a Kaneda (from Akira) cosplay with the red clothes.

I have confidence it will be good for two reasons.

1) Production I.G.
2) They didn't forget to have a shot of The Major falling off a building backwards.

I would rather have a full TV series than four 50 minute parts, but I'll take what I can get.

Maaya Sakamoto voice acting is controversial for some reason. I don't care.

There's also going to be some sort of GitS online "Hacking FPS". It will probably suck. If you want to play GitS: the game, just play Android: Netrunner.

http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/interest/2013-02-12/ghost-in-the-shell-online-game-to-be-hacking-fps

 

I wonder, is it a prequel to Stand Alone Complex or the movies? She's got the purple hair from SAC, but some scenes in the trailer show her being more melancholic and contemplative like she was in the movies. I guess it's more likely to be related to Stand Alone Complex, but either way, it looks interesting.

As for style changes, it's to be expected when different people are working on it, but hopefully it'll remain distinctively GitS despite that.

 

This is on android? I'm not seeing anything.

 

Your Google-fu is weak young padawan.

 

Oh.

It's not an android (OS) game.