On Aug 31, 2014, at 1:38 PM, CJ Jacobson <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 8/30/2014 5:55 PM, Joseph Sochet wrote: >> >> FYI, Activision just relaunched sierra as an indie Dev publisher. >> Additionally, I think you are not alone in the IP limbo. From what I pieced >> together on the internet, there was some major chaos at the end. Sierra went >> through a myriad of owners, from the Davidson group to the French global >> conglomerate at its end. At one point one owner shut down Dynamix even >> though they were making some of the most successful games in the company ( >> Tribes, et al). >> > I was stoked to see that Sierra is back. They have already announced a new > Kings Quest game and I have a feeling we'll be seeing a new Police Quest game > as Jim Walls (creator of Police Quest) was planning on releasing a new games > based on the PQ series but the Kickstarter failed due to pretty much > non-existing marketing. While they were planning on continuing development > with it outside of being crowdfunded, they simply disappeared which leads me > to believe Acti-Blizzard started talking to them about reinventing the Quest > series under the new Sierra. > > CJ > Interesting. Activision bought the rights apparently to the name. And a couple of old titles, to be rebooted for Xbox and Playstation. Best, R.E.F. Raymond Feist [email protected]
