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On Mon, 22 Sep 2008 15:04:19 +0200, Guardian Pegasus <noooo@thanks.no>
wrote:

>*Hasbro sold the X-COM franchise to Infogrames/Atari. That was pretty
>much where we all left off.
>*Take Two Interactive has now aquired the license from Atari. Shortly
>after they also aquired the only people in the industry familiar with
>the X-COM franchise, as well as a talented designer known to long have
>been dying for a remake.
>*For a time, X-COM was listed on Take Two's legal firm's websites as
>an inactive intellectual property. In 2008, it dissappeared, and was
>suddenly listed active along with other announced properties such as
>Tribes 3, System Shock 2, Bioshock, SWAT, and Freedom Force. It has
>since been removed.
>*Rumors abound that the attempted EA takeover of Take Two Interactive
>also had plans for the franchise
>*Interestingly, Boston 2k/Irrational Games (developer of highly
>successful Bioshock) is not developing Bioshock 2. That duty has been
>bestowed upon a newly started division. Boston 2k wanted to do
>something different.
>*Bioshock lead designer Ken Levine (Boston 2k/Irrational Games),
>currently working on "unannounced title", is known to a humongous
>X-COM fan, and describes X-COM UFO as his "first love" and an example
>of a game with strong design that stands the test of time. His only
>comment so far has been that it would be "the return of a well
>remembered game franchise". He has declined to comment on whether or
>not they're working on a new X-COM title. (which is kind of suspicious
>in itself, since he could have just flat out denied it)
>*Boston 2k is currently searching for new team members for a game
>based on the Unreal 3 engine (which is very flexible and more than
>capable of a squad based tactical scenario).
>*The X-COM games were recently patched up and launched on STEAM... by
>Take Two! This is something they've done for other games that they
>develop sequels for as well.
>
>
>Gentlemen... cross your fingers and toes... with any luck we may be
>looking at a UFO-remake.

Woo !  :)

Next month we finally get Fallout 3 - can Xcom be far behind ???

After that - Wizardy 9 and a new Thief game, hopefully.