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Incendiary Lemon
08-31-2006, 03:37 PM
Gamasutra (http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=10713)


According to a detailed investor presentation recently made available by major publisher and developer Vivendi Games, the company has apparently signed a deal with Psychonauts developer Double Fine for an unspecified new title.

Good to hear, hopefully they'll have better sucess this time.


However, the document also reveals a great deal of previously unknown information on Vivendi's strategy, including confirmation of many unannounced titles from the company's Sierra Online division. These include Xbox 360 Live Arcade title Megaforce for this year, alongside Xbox 360 and PC SKUs of 3D Ultra Mini Golf, as well as PC and Xbox 360 Live Arcade titles based on classic puzzler The Incredible Machine in 2007.

In addition, a Battlestar Galactica Xbox 360 Live Arcade/PC title is mentioned in that same timeframe, alongside Red Baron for PC and Xbox 360 Live Arcade, re-inventing Sierra's combat flight game. The document also reveals a PC online version of the Crash Bandicoot franchise (called Crash Online, logically enough), and targeted at both the Western and especially Asian markets.
Case
08-31-2006, 03:41 PM
Gamasutra (http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=10713)



Good to hear, hopefully they'll have better sucess this time.

The return of Red Baron? Really? Please, don't dumb it down!
Kunikos
08-31-2006, 03:56 PM
The document also reveals a PC online version of the Crash Bandicoot franchise (called Crash Online, logically enough), and targeted at both the Western and especially Asian markets.

Why do we need an online platformer for the PC? Scratch that, what the hell *is* an online platformer? Didn't anyone learn from the "success" of Monolith's Claw?

Here's hopin' Psychonauts 2 is in the works!
Incendiary Lemon
08-31-2006, 04:04 PM
The return of Red Baron? Really? Please, don't dumb it down!

http://img243.imageshack.us/img243/4236/clipboard01yt2.th.jpg (http://img243.imageshack.us/my.php?image=clipboard01yt2.jpg)

This is the listing form the Vivendi Investor Report. I'd guess it won't have much in common with its namesake. There's also a Red Baron 2D/3D listed in their mobile division breakdown.
DennyA
08-31-2006, 10:32 PM
The return of Red Baron? Really? Please, don't dumb it down!
Since it says for "PC and Xbox Live Arcade," I wouldn't break out the old CH Flightstick just yet...
Lake
09-01-2006, 08:14 AM
I will buy Megaforce only if Barry Bostwick does the voices.
Ed Solomon
09-01-2006, 09:29 AM
I will buy Megaforce only if Barry Bostwick does the voices.
Deeds not words.
OrfBC
09-01-2006, 10:07 AM
Battlestar Galactica as a Live Arcade game is just weird. Why not make it a full-fledged DVD game?
Anti-Bunny
09-01-2006, 10:15 AM
Battlestar Galactica as a Live Arcade game is just weird. Why not make it a full-fledged DVD game?
They did. It didn't sell too well.
OrfBC
09-01-2006, 10:21 AM
Yeah but A) It wasn't very good, B) It was on the original XBox and was released before the huge success of the new series, and C) It was based on the old series, not the new one.
Incendiary Lemon
09-01-2006, 10:27 AM
They did. It didn't sell too well.

2003, the year the mini series debuted. Probably not a very good measure of the franchise.
dannimal
09-01-2006, 10:41 AM
Man, I sucked at Red Baron.
Thrag
09-01-2006, 03:15 PM
Man, I sucked at Red Baron.

Red Baron was awesome. Anyone here play multiplayer Red Baron on Sierra's old INN network? I was addicted to that for a good part of the early 90s.
quatoria
09-01-2006, 03:52 PM
Red Baron was awesome. Anyone here play multiplayer Red Baron on Sierra's old INN network? I was addicted to that for a good part of the early 90s.

Sure did! Lot of fun on that network - aside from the creepy pseudo MMO, used mainly by people in search of a quiet corner on which to cyber. Blech.
Thrag
09-01-2006, 04:26 PM
Sure did! Lot of fun on that network - aside from the creepy pseudo MMO, used mainly by people in search of a quiet corner on which to cyber. Blech.

I never did spend much time with the other games since little could top the RB experience. I have a strong memory of many of my games going like this (at least early on):

Cream other team.
Other team complains of cheating.
Explain to other team how to fly better.
Other team says "There are rudder keys?".