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Troika Games Closes
Voodoo Extreme has the story that talented development house Troika Games has closed its doors as a result of lack of funding for future projects. Rumours of their closure have circled for the last week or so, but today's announcement makes the closure official. Troika is best known for its table-top RPG adaptations, such as The Temple of Elemental Evil and games based on Vampire: The Masquerade. From the announcement: "We want to thank all of our fans for their support these past seven years, it has really meant a lot to us that there were people out there who enjoyed our games enough to create fan-sites and follow our progress as a company. But we especially want to thank all of our employees - we had the pleasure of working with the some of the most dedicated, hard working, creative people in the industry, and we really appreciate all that they did for Troika."
What a shame!
The one great thing both Arcanum and Fallout had running for them were the settings: either the apocalyptic post-war world of Fallout and it's dark humor or the fantasy-world-ongoing-industrial-revolution one of Arcanum. I always hated fantasy settings with passion, and both games not only tried something new but did it well and were fun to play.
I'll miss Troika.