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Sam and Max 2 to Remain Cancelled

Posted by Zonk on from the dangit dept.

Doomstalk writes "In the last couple of months, rumors on the possible resurrection of LucasArts' Sam and Max: Freelance Police grew in gaming circles. The rumors mentioned a new, mysterious games publisher called Bad Brain that was willing to raise money in order to buy the rights to an unnamed adventure game from LucasArts. Many thought this was too good to be true. Unfortunately, they were proven right, as Bad Brain revealed the news that negotiations with LucasArts over the rights to Sam and Max 2 have been discontinued."

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  1. Cancelled.. by Ben+Struferga · · Score: 4, Informative

    Bad Brain Entertainment, a new german game developer, has indeed failed to get the rights for Sam & Max. But they are now talking to Steve Purcell, creator of the two characters, to whom the rights appearently will fall back in may 2005. So theres still Hope...

    1. Re:Cancelled.. by Ben+Struferga · · Score: 2, Informative

      Ive read it on pcgames.de, a german games-news site. The article this information comes from can be found under http://www.pcgames.de/?article_id=344800. The information is in the last sentence, its in german though, but maybe babelfish can make some sense of it. Hope that helps

  2. Re:Anyone else see this as a positive sign? by Dachannien · · Score: 3, Informative

    I don't see it as a positive sign at all.

    Nearly six years ago, Sierra cancelled production on their "Babylon 5: Into the Fire" game. (They booted numerous employees as part of a facility consolidation that resulted in the death of other games as well.) Most of the head developers expressed an interest in finishing the game they had put so much work into, and so they approached Sierra/Vivendi with an offer to purchase the work they had already finished. Sierra refused.

    In the time since then, the rights to develop the B5 license into a computer game reverted to Warner Brothers, leaving WB with a license but no game, Sierra with a half-done game (and a crapload of voice acting and original music) but no license and no designers, and a bunch of designers without their old jobs. The inertia was gone, the designers had moved on to other companies, and the game is pretty much officially dead.

    (Fortunately, the mod community is pretty strong for the B5 universe, and there's a team of Russian programmers who have come up with a nice rendition of the universe, sans license. http://www.firstones.com/)

    The moral of the story: Just because a company refuses to sell you something doesn't mean they plan to do jack with it themselves.