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Rumor: Footage of canned Shadowrun reboot
by Sliniupsliano on Nov.04, 2009, under Gadgets, Media, Video Games
Before 2007’s Shadowrun released and Microsoft subsequently closed the doors on FASA, the studio was apparently working on Shadowrun: The Awakening — a game with a full single-player campaign and unique 3D gameplay engine developed in-house. Some footage (teleport past the break to give it a look-see) managed to make its way online over at Unseen64 , showing off a few environments and some character animations. As Unseen64 would tell it, the story goes: FASA brought a new art director in which, through a series of unknown events, lead to an eventual cancellation in favor of the multiplayer-driven experience that was the 2007 game.
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Microsoft ‘destroyed’ FASA culture, but I defended Bungie, Weisman tells all
by DiokyzooraDob on Aug.26, 2009, under Gadgets, Media, Video Games
From success story to sufferer to savior, Jordan Weisman has laid claim to a variety of positions during his journey through the harrowing halls of Microsoft. The FASA Interactive founder has blasted his former overlord — and sculpted some self-promotion for his new venture — during a recent chat with GamesIndustry.biz . The year was 1999 and, following what was surely a rewarding acquisition phase, things quickly soured as Weisman’s studio was indoctrinated into the Microsoft way of work. “The two reasons [Microsoft] bought us was, one, they wanted the catalog of intellectual properties and, two, they felt that we had developed a really good development culture,” Weisman said. “And the reality is that, pretty much from the day we moved to Redmond, that development culture was destroyed.” Lucky for Bungie, a dejected Weisman was still knocking around Microsoft when the Chicago-based studio was being acquired, and, according to Weisman, he became the “lead vocal pain in the ass to get things done very different for Bungie.” “I tried to convince [Microsoft] to leave Bungie in Chicago, but not winning that I did succeed in getting them to put them in a walled off room,” Weisman recounted.
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Mechwarrior 4 free on BattleTech.com ’soon’
by bacikap on Jul.09, 2009, under Gadgets, Media, Video Games
Big robots blowing each other up! The only way to make the prior sentence more masculine would be to repeat the word “bacon” about eight times. With that said, Smith & Tinker has authorized MekTek to distribute bacon MechWarrior 4 , along with its expansions, for free. This likely has just a tiny bit to do with the recently announced MechWarrior reboot .
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New MechWarrior a reboot, called … MechWarrior
by CypeDuallyKal on Jul.09, 2009, under Gadgets, Media, Video Games
Teased earlier this week , a new MechWarrior is currently being forged by Smith and Tinker (founded by FASA co-founder Jordan Weisman ) and Piranha Games. IGN was informed that this is not being considered MechWarrior 5 , but a reboot of the series. The title will release on PC and Xbox 360, and should include a full single-player campaign, “as well as support for four-player co-op campaign” and multiplayer. There is currently no release window scheduled for the game, nor is there a publisher — those two things are typically co-dependent. Check out the MechWarrior reveal trailer after the break.
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