Total Annihilation's Spiritual/Actual Sequel Planned?

Thanks to IGN PC for its article discussing hints from Chris Taylor of Gas Powered Games regarding a possible follow-up to seminal RTS Total Annihilation. Apparently, at a recent gaming career day, Taylor, the original designer of TA, informally confirmed "...that Gas Powered Games was working on 'an RTS follow-up to Total Annihilation'", but IGN note "it's not exactly clear yet [from his brief comment] on whether or not the game will be a true sequel... or simply a new RTS in the vein of Total Annihilation." Although Gas Powered Games are currently working on a sequel to Dungeon Siege for Microsoft, their jobs page confirms they're also looking for RTS genre artists, and an earlier GameSpy interview discusses this long-under-wraps strategy title. Taylor also mentioned the publisher of this new title is "a big one... one that doesn't also publish operating systems [like Microsoft]" - it seems Atari own the rights to Total Annihilation 2, and previously asked Korean developers Phantagram to develop a sequel before that deal allegedly fell through, though Taylor's game could still be a sequel in concept only.

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[M3wThr33]

I'm sure you'll get better explanations, but it boiled down to this:
Humans in robot suits vs. Robots with human brains.

Re:TA was great but a sequel?

[MachDelta]

Yeah, everyone loved the "Arm". The rebels. The anti-establishment. The friggin humanitarians.
They were scum in my opinion. Too feeble minded to grasp the concept of universal immortality. Too attatched to their feeble bodies to witness the ascention of humanity. Fools, every last one of them.

Core forever!

Re:TA was great but a sequel?

[Maserati]

Thank you for your input Dr. Ikari.