| From: | Theo Karmdeth theo@*****.com.au |
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| Subject: | State of the Industry |
| Date: | Thu, 11 Feb 1999 22:16:51 GMT |
>> > I rumor I heard some time ago was Microsoft would shelve SR:
>> > Assassin since they had something similar in the works. Until I hear
>> > something new about SR: Assassin I consider it dead.
>> I thought you just said that you were searching for facts...not
>speculation?
>No speculation: Shelve nothing, It's Gone.
>I recently (within a few months) received a (delayed) response from
>Mike Mulvilhil (sorry if it is spelled wrong). He was repling to an
>inquiry that i had had about the SR Compurter game. He had said that
>it had gotten "swallowed up in a 'merger' between FASA and another
>company" (he declined to name Microsoft.)
> SR: Assassins is
>dead. So says the Shadowrun Line Developer.
Mike did NOT say SR: Assassins was dead. He said it was swallowed in
a merger. From everything else that was happening at the time, I
would take that to mean that although they had some control over it
before, its been given over with the merger. Its true that another of
Microsofts slave companies (so sad for Fasa Int to become a slave)
were working on a Cyberpunk single player game (like a futuristic
"Theif:The Dark Project" - Looking Glass), but they were about as far
into production as SR: Assassin.
I'd say its a good bet that either both games got shuffled into one,
or, concidering that MS is not stupid (well... i know this will become
a thread of its own :) if they take 5 minutes to realise that an
unknown game vs. a "SR" game which already has millions of followers,
which game would you release?
From all this speculation i draw this fact. There is a game coming
from Microsoft in a cyerpunk vein. There is a chance it could be SR
related.
Woo hoo.
-Theo in the corner
