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*sob*

 

It's so purdy! Why aren't we playing this today?!

 

On a side note...

I really despise corporate scum. =p

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Here's a brief history: The Microprose studio here on the east coast of the US (I don't remember what state) began development of X-COM: Genesis in mid 1999. The development team was the same that converted UFO Defense to TFTD. They were pretty cool guys who frequented many of the popular xcom forums to consult the fans and collect good ideas. Around March of 2000, Microprose was bought out by Hasbro a.k.a. Hasborg The Assimilator. Hasbro immediately began laying people off, including the development team working on Genesis. The project was scrapped and that was that. Sometime in the last 6 months, Hasbro was bought out by Infogames. Within the last two months, Infogames sold all Microprose intellectual property (games) to Firaxis, run by Sid Meier. His intentions regarding and future xcom game are unclear at this time.
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Guest drewid

The development team was the same that converted UFO Defense to TFTD. [\QUOTE]

 

Nope. The TFTD dev team was UK based. None of the genesis team were involved in UFO or TFTD.

 

it went like this:

ufo - uk - mythos/MPS

tftd - uk - MPS

Apoc - uk - Mythos/MPS

Interceptor - US (Hunt Valley IIRC)

Alliance - UK - MPS

Genesis - US - can't remember

email - UK - MPS

enforcer - no idea.

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Guest tyler

shame we'll probably never get to play it,

 

On a side note though, how come we haven't seen a version of X-com for a handheld yet? The GBA should be up to it.

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Stupid corporate pigs. Now they're into gaming. Wonderful.

 

Well, you guys will just have to kick their donkeys (there, I did the editing for you ;) ) by making Xenocide rock.

 

May Genesis rest in peace. Oh, we hardly knew ye.

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maybe there is a leak... i would love to get hands on some materials from that game...

 

A leak like what happened with Half Life 2. You know, stuff happens.

If we could get hold of the partial game, even if it was in early stages of development... maybe it could be the birth of X-CROM: Genesis (for trademark issues)

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