Studios Rise And Fall

The fortunes of game studios are fickle. Gamasutra reports that former Blizzard developers have formed another studio. This time, vets from Blizzard North have congealed Hyboreal Games. Their first title is slated to be a PC game entitled 'Starfall'. Meanwhile, ShaggusMacHaggis writes "Stainless Steel Studios, developers of Empire Earth, Empires, and the yet to be released Rise & Fall, have shut their doors. Despite the game being 'almost gold', Midway wanted the game held back from an October 05 release date, instead being released in Feb 06. The catch was that Midway did not want to pay Stainless Steel Studios for this delayed time period."

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Re:More Diablo II Please !

[ReverendLoki]

Unfortunately, past experience has shown that great games are frequently 1-off flukes.

So far, the group of Blizzard vets that went off to form ArenaNet have done pretty damn well with their game GuildWars. We can hope that lightning will strike twi... er, thrice.