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by Serban Stokker |
25th April 2007 |
This story's title could have been even longer, if the folks from Gas Powered Games were also making something for the PlayStation 3; but as it turns out, they're not. GPG is, however, developing for both of the other two next-gen home consoles, the Xbox 360 and Wii, and of course for the PC - as they've been doing for the past... whoa, nine years already! Well, almost. Chris Taylor's "new" studio was founded back in May 1998, after he decided to leave Cavedog and start anew on a (spiritual) successor to the strategy game that made him famous - Total Annihilation.
It took a lot longer than we hoped for, until we finally saw Supreme Commander in stores this year, but we like to think that the wait was well worth it. With no other project officially announced, for the past couple of months we were left wondering as to what could GPG possibly be working on now... A new Dungeon Siege? An expansion for Supreme Commander? Something completely new? Or how about all of the above?
Indeed, that might just be the case, because this week Chris Taylor has confirmed in an
interview with GI.biz that his studio is working on no less than four internal projects,
"and one extra that we're working on - so that makes five. They're across platforms, we have everything from 360 to Wii to PC, we have all kinds of stuff going on."
Don't mind if we jiggle with joy right about now! Unfortunately we still don't know anything specific about any of the four / five projects at this time, and Taylor didn't seem too eager to go into detail either. Instead, he only talked about consoles in general - and developing for consoles, which he thinks is
"way easier to develop for than the PC".
They haven't actually been working on the PS3, Taylor admits, and not just because it's
"an order of magnitude more complex to work on" (from what he's heard), but also because he doesn't see Sony's console to be as appealing to the masses as the Xbox 360 and the Wii. Mostly the Wii.
"If Blu-ray was not in the PS3, for example, it would probably go a long, long way to helping the PS3. It's just that extra cost is putting it a little bit over the top and just out of the range of making it a whimsical purchase. It's just a little too much."
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