I know, and they own rights to the old ones.

Well, my point being that GOG could not be making a deal with Microprose as a publisher as everyone has been suggesting...


Sorry, your point. I see what you're getting at now. I hadn't tracked down where all of the Microprose IP had gone when I had initially made that post. Apparently, Microprose IP has been divied up into a million pieces and scattered to the winds of many, many publishers.


For those who have not played Worms, know that it is really best as a multi-player game, preferably hot-seat. One thing that Team-17's never been able to get a handle on is AI.

They seem reluctant to publish more titles on gog of late, though. Why Warlords 1-3 aren't available for purchase here is beyond me.

You can order Warlords 2 Deluxe for mere $27
http://www.ssgus.com/wldeluxe.html

Ubisoft can't release those without the D&D rights to do so.

but we can still have Galactic Civilizations 2 right?if Stardock is the new publisher

It's certainly not impossible now that Stardock no longer have Impulse.

When Gamersgate separated from Paradox, Paradox's games appeared on a lot of other DDs (not including GOG though). Maybe Stardock will show more interest in GOG. I don't think they'll have a problem with DRM-free games. But they'll certainly take issue with the idea of selling their games to dirty non-Americans.

But maybe they can overcome that.
That site doesn't look like it's been updated since 1995, and I'm being generous with that estimate. But then it mentions Vista and DOSbox...

Yes, it's got that Spiderweb Software air, hasn't it?

That should be bolded and typed with usage of bigger font or red color or... erm... as it is not possible, so let's repeat it a few times at least?

No. Not unless IGG do an Infogrames / Titus and hide behind the superior name they bought. Not completely impossible. Even today a lot of people would love to see Microprose return, even if they never were as famous or iconic as Atari, or even Interplay.

And just what is wrong with SWS's site layout? 0.0 :p

:)

Spiderweb's site does at least look like it was designed by someone who knew what they were doing... in 1997.

This? Well it looks like... exactly like no end of sites back in the 90s that droned on and on about all the benefits of their product and slapped a massive price tag at the bottom of it all that you're supposed to be convinced by that point is totally worth it. In fact I wouldn't be surprised if this used one of those sites as a template.

Maybe a few seconds clicking on such sites is not such a big deal and people shouldn't be complaining about it? ;)

Meh, a publisher is only as good as the devs it publishes and the devs are only as good as the employees slaving within. That's why this whole joke of naming, what, 10 different studios "Bioware" is so laughable. A name does not a good product make. I kinda feel like Yoda after that statement...

Besides, as has been mentioned elsewhere, Microprose publishing IP and dev rights have been thrown to the winds and spread out among a multitude of publishers. IGG may own the Microprose *name* but probably not much more than that.

Even though it's quite damning in it's own way, I don't think it encompasses the full truth of the matter. Don't forget that when a game goes gold only very few key people get to keep thier jobs. That probably explains why Obsidian's games have been all over the place, quality-wise. Yet have had consistently good writing.

That's between IGG and Atari, apparently. So I suppose that any Microprose games that don't wind up on GOG via Atari eventually were in fact owned by IGG.

But with GOG's lethargic release schedule and the huge number of games they could, but haven't released I think that's no real way to know for sure.