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skeletonbow: Didn't you guys all hear? Licurg is in negotiations to buy all of the Interplay IP with plans to funnel all profits over time into the development of Sacrifice 2. ;)
i dont think there wil be much point of just one person wants to play that game ;p
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mystral: They might have the rights to the Star Trek games they've made, but since they obviously don't have exclusive rights to the Stark Trek IP when it comes to gaming (see Star Trek Online), I doubt they can actually sell those rights without Paramount's agreement.

Or else whoever buys them won't actually be able to call them Star Trek, just like the Dark Alliance Ip can't use the Baldur's Gate name that went with them.
Interplay had to cooperate with CBS in order to release the 4 Star Trek games here:
http://www.interplay.com/about/article.php?id=82

As to what might happen with the games, there are some potential scenarios:

1) CBS could file an objection to stop the sale, just like the creators of South Park tried (but ultimately failed) to do so when THQ auctioned The Stick of Truth.
2) Interplay's Star Trek license with CBS is actually transferable and the new owner gets to keep selling the games (and potentially have the rights to release the rest of Interplay's Star Trek catalog), at least till the license expires.
3) Interplay's Star Trek license is non-transferable and while the new owner might own the games, they can't release them at their current form without signing a new licensing agreement with CBS.
Alright, there might be truth to Activision owning Redneck Rampage.

https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2009/04/06/blizzard-making-redneck-rampage-game-er/
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Grargar: 2) Interplay's Star Trek license with CBS is actually transferable and the new owner gets to keep selling the games (and potentially have the rights to release the rest of Interplay's Star Trek catalog), at least till the license expires.
3) Interplay's Star Trek license is non-transferable and while the new owner might own the games, they can't release them at their current form without signing a new licensing agreement with CBS.
I'm hoping Scenario #2 is the case, but I'm afraid it's more likely for Scenario #3 to be the case. Hopefully, I'm wrong.
There's a lot of forgotten (not to GOG regulars, but to most people,) gems on that list. A lot that I think if done right, would warrant reboots.

Stonekeep
Die By the Sword
Shogo
Freespace (Space stuff IS coming back around.)
Clayfighter would be a solid nostalgic trip if redone correctly
Earthworm Jim should go without saying.

I just hope that whoever picks up the lock stock and barrel, does so with intention to actually use some of them, and is already friendly with GOG/CDP.
I'm bumping this because I hadn't heard of this until today when Titus was put on sale.

My personal thoughts on this is this sale needs to happen. Interplay needs to put to rest
finally or revived by some other corporate entity with their properties being set free to
become awesome again. We were promised a Wii port of Descent years ago that would
have made good use of the system's controls that would have improved on mouse and
keyboard. Not to mention many other projects promised to be rebooted or waiting to have
another installment on (like Toonstruck).

At least now I know that purchasing Toonstruck for cheap didn't affect the chances of the
original developer making the sequel. They probably didn't receive any money of the
sales from GOG to help fund the possibility of a kickstarter.