A new development in some old game arenas...

[Duper]

A new Mechwarrior and Crimson Skies in the future somewhere....

[Neo]

w00t ^_^

[Sapphire Wolf]

Rock on! \\m/
This might end the tyranny of Mech Assault(which is crap) and thus save the Battletech electronic franchise. And hopefully a Mechwarrior 5.

[Top Wop]

Good news. Nice to see M$'s iron grip relaxed for a change. And here's hoping for another chapter in Mechwarrior, I haven't had my fix in years.

[d3jake]

Kinda makes me wish that Outrage had been bought up by M$, we may have the rights to it by now :p

[Top Wop]

Kinda makes me wish that Outrage had been bought up by M$, we may have the rights to it by now :p

You do NOT wish for Micro$oft to buy up anything. Its a guarantee death sentence. Didn't you know that?

[TIGERassault]

Aw, I thought Microsoft made great Mech games!

[Duper]

Kinda makes me wish that Outrage had been bought up by M$, we may have the rights to it by now :p

You do NOT wish for Micro$oft to buy up anything. Its a guarantee death sentence. Didn't you know that?

uh top .. you DO know Descent is a "dead" title ..right??

Actually Tiger, all MS did for Mech was provide a little money, the publishing and about 5 layers bureaucracy.

[Sirius]

Microsoft bought Halo ... that's not terribly dead...

[roid]

Microsoft bought Halo before it was released, to use as their flagship Xbawks product.

I was excited about Halo, and following it's development until Microsoft bought it, then i stopped caring. IIRC Halo was supposed to be a Massively Multiplayer Online FPS game originally in it's PC version.

when it comes to games, i think they outsource (the conglomerate way - buy out!). Coz Microsoft's games work well outof the box - If Microsoft was doing them in-house i doubt they'd work so well.

[Duper]

hehe.. and Bungie is now no longer part of the MS franchise.

[roid]

NO WAI

RLY?

why would they do that? Halo is STILL their flagship product, and MS throws money at everything, can't spare some for Bungi?

[Top Wop]

uh top .. you DO know Descent is a "dead" title ..right??

Yes, but the difference is that its better dead in someone else's hands. M$ has all the $$$ in the world and they SAT on the Mechwarrior license and did nothing while killing off FASA.
Can you tell how much I hate Micro$uck???

[Duper]

true.

[TIGERassault]

IIRC Halo was supposed to be a Massively Multiplayer Online FPS game originally in it's PC version.

Wow, that would've really sucked! Those kinda games never work out well.

[DCrazy]

Halo was a Mac game, not a PC product before MS bought Bungie. Originally it was an RTS, but by the time it was publicly unveilled at MacWorld '99, it had become a third-person shooter.

[Sirius]

FASA Studio was actually releasing titles, but they weren't doing terribly well towards the end and shut down. A bit like Outrage, except more of a surprise.

[Gekko71]

...I think I smell a trend in the making here.

Is anyone aware of any other reasonably substantial attempts to rebuild / relaunch / revivie old gaming franchises? (D4 rumors aside)

Is this a trend? Is Gen X getting nostalgic perhaps?

[Top Wop]

Not counting Descent 4 simply because Interplay will NOT make it, DX3 is being made because its series was popular. Mechwarrior has a huge backing. Other than those two I dont really see a trend.