LordMatrix said:
They actually don't own it anymore Smith & Tinker does. Check out the itnerview off the link I posted. Basically the guys that were orignally responsible for FASA Studios bought back the rights from Microsoft for this seris and I believe Crimson Skies as well. |
Jordan Weisman: I'll kick off everything; this came about through a series of turns. After I left Microsoft some years ago, Microsoft let the properties lay idle – they hadn't really done much with them. So about two years ago, I was able to negotiate the license that gave me the opportunity to try to do something with those properties because they're all close to my heart, and I hate seeing great universes lay fallow. Of course, in the way of how the world works, as soon as I put that deal together, Smith and Tinker materialized around me in a strange confluence of events and I got swept up in doing Nanovor, which is our big release product this fall. So I wasn't able to spend a lot of time on the FASA properties as I wanted, but I spent a bunch of time thinking about what I wanted to do with them.Russ, who is a longtime fan, and I'll let him tell his story, got a hold of me. We started talking and developed a prototype project on a different subject as a kind of "get to know you," and during that process spent a lot of time talking about our shared passion for reinventing MechWarrior. We've been working on this vision for MechWarrior, of which the video is a component of our thoughts about what the game should be, for the last five months now. The goal was partially a celebration of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the property, and mostly as a way of trying to present to the public and to publishers a vision of what a next-generation MechWarrior could be, was to roll this thing out next week.
