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General: Total Annihilation Bought Up By Wargaming

SBFordSBFord Former Associate EditorMember LegendaryPosts: 33,129
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With THQ's financial woes solved for good, all final assets have now been sold off. Of interest to our readers is the news that Wargaming, parent company of Gas Powered Games, has purchased the Total Annihilation licensing.

With THQ’s bankruptcy case now resolved, where else can we turn for the will-they-won’t-they of franchise auctions? We can certainly get a quick fix of financial peril from Atari, who have sold off properties including Master of Orion and Total Annihilation – both of which have ended up with the current owner of all the money, Wargaming.net. It should be happy news for TA fans, as the game’s original designer, Chris Taylor, and his studio Gas Powered Games are now also being cradled under the Wargaming umbrella

Source: PC Gamer

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  • DamonVileDamonVile Member UncommonPosts: 4,818
    I wonder if they're looking to pick up where end of nations just left off. Some type of mmorts type of game. Something like their clan wars in WoT but with RTS matches instead.
  • BillMurphyBillMurphy Former Managing EditorMember LegendaryPosts: 4,565
    A Total Annihilation MMORTS would get all of my money.  Even with Planetary Annihilation coming.

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  • SovrathSovrath Member LegendaryPosts: 32,963
    I would be totally into another Masters of Orion game.
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  • SpottyGekkoSpottyGekko Member EpicPosts: 6,916
    Originally posted by Sovrath
    I would be totally into another Masters of Orion game.

    Oh hell yeah !!

     

    But only if it's more like MoO II than MoO III... :D

  • ScivaSciva Member UncommonPosts: 298
    Would have prefered Stardock getting the MoO IP. QQ
  • SovrathSovrath Member LegendaryPosts: 32,963
    Originally posted by SpottyGekko
    Originally posted by Sovrath
    I would be totally into another Masters of Orion game.

    Oh hell yeah !!

     

    But only if it's more like MoO II than MoO III... :D

    yeah, I beta tested Masters of Orion III.

    Let's just say we weren't that happy in the process. image

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  • GruntyGrunty Member EpicPosts: 8,657
    YayYAH!
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  • ButeoRegalisButeoRegalis Member UncommonPosts: 594
    Stardock botched their Master of Magic reboot badly. I'd rather have some competent people on it.

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  • kyssarikyssari Member Posts: 142
    I totally loved the original Total Annihilation and all the custom units you could download and use, was so much fun.
  • mCalvertmCalvert Member CommonPosts: 1,283
    TA and Supreme Commander are my favorite RTS ever. The multiscreen capability and zoom feature in SC are still unique in the genre. Flash rush incoming!
  • BandenBanden Member Posts: 83
    Originally posted by ButeoRegalis
    Stardock botched their Master of Magic reboot badly. I'd rather have some competent people on it.

     Nothing beats the Master of Mana mod for Sid meier's Civilization 4, its a kind of tribute to Master of magic. That mod is built on a previous mod called fall from heaven II, its no coincidence that the guy behind FFH2 was hired by stardock. FFH2 and the later MoM tribute really are amazing.

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