Tribes Franchise Quietly Strangled

Posted by Zonk on Friday March 25, 2005 @03:27AM from the who-needs-team-play? dept.

Gavin Manley writes "Back in October last year, the third game in the Tribes series of first person shooters was released, published by Vivendi Universal Games (VUG). After many years of waiting and frustration, VU once again disappoints, not only by missing their market for the game again but by simply cancelling support for the game." From the article: "Now not only does this have consequences for Tribes fans, but fans of other franchises need to be worried. SWAT 4 in particular. The next SWAT game is also being produced by Irrational Games (no doubt on an equally dismal budget) and published by our good friends at VUG."

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What the hell is up with VUG? by game+kid · 2005-03-25 03:58 · Score: 0, Offtopic

I believe they've delayed Half-Life 2 and another game before that, and went to court for not paying Valve royalties for its cyber cafe games, and now this...they sure have some serious issues. Makes me glad I have SDKs I can build some small games with to pass time, 'cause these guys don't want to pay for, release or support their games without a lot of reluctance. That's what I see.

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