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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. In other news by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Johnny Carson to stay dead.

  2. 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...

  3. MORE STAR WARS GAMES, STAT! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Gotta keep working on Star Wars Episode III: Boba Fett Sexual Identity Crisis Dress-Up 2 so it's out by May!!!!!!!!!

  4. Anyone else see this as a positive sign? by Prien715 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Right now Lucasarts is making near $0 on the Sam and Max license. They could get a non-zero ammount for it, but instead they choose to keep it. Why? Well obviously it's worth more than is being offered to them, which must mean they're planning on doing something with it (as opposed to sitting on it and making nearly $0).

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    1. 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.

  5. Cue the standard /. replies... by Blakey+Rat · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Cue the standard /. replies about how the Adventure game genre is dead from people who have never played Syberia, The Longest Journey, Myst IV, Beyond Good and Evil, or any of the other dozen adventure games that have come out in the few years.

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