What do you think Firaxis is doing right now?

[thinkingamer]

Well, what do you think?

[ColdWizard]

bashing Infogrames on gaming forums.

[General Ludd]

Thinking of a way to ruin Colonization or Alpha Centauri.

[vee4473]

Well, hopefully they are in deep development for AC2.

Then again, AC is so very good that I wonder how it can be improved upon....besides graphically.

[kring]

In the last Firaxis chat at CFC, they mentioned working on a new patch for PtW.

Also, according to the latest information, Firaxis and Infogrames will make an announcement of their next project at E3 in mid May.

AC rights are owned by EA, so I don't think we will see a new AC.

[thinkingamer]

Originally posted by kring
In the last Firaxis chat at CFC, they mentioned working on a new patch for PtW.

Also, according to the latest information, Firaxis and Infogrames will make an announcement of their next project at E3 in mid May.

AC rights are owned by EA, so I don't think we will see a new AC.

Originally posted by ColdWizard
bashing Infogrames on gaming forums.

Im starting to really hate infogames...or is it infogrames?

[vovan]

Originally posted by thinkingamer
or is it infogrames?

Yup, Infogrames.

And yeah, they did say that would announce something at E3... I don't think that an expansion announcement is worth a special E3 announcement.

Now, when I first saw the news I was thinking they would come up with a new version of colonization... (Somehow I don't believe they'll go back to SMAC.) But now after seeing that announcement at AVault again, I'm thinking of new speculations. For instance:

The event comes four years to the day after Meier announced Civilization III at a similar gathering during E3 1999.

Exactly four years from Civ3 announcement? Civ4 maybe? Or MoO4? It is Infogrames after all. Might wanna fix the mistakes of the third iteration by bringing in Sid. Either that or another SimGolf thingie.

[ColdWizard]

SimGolf is EA, so I don't think Infrogreed will be announcing anything about it

[vovan]

Oh, good.

Well, let's see. What has Sid Meier worked on...

Pirates. A remake of that maybe?

Railroad Tycoon. Already being worked on. Nothing new to announce, probably.

Civilization, in many different flavours (Civ1, WinCiv, CivNet, Civ2, etc..). I hope he is done with it. I love the concept and have played all of the games, but really, I don't think there is anything to improve without radically changing the gameplay, as Civ3 + PtW has shown clearly. (That is, they tried to change a lot of stuff, but in the end, while the game is good, many people were disappointed. I don't think the legacy will continue. Not this time around, any way, I don't think. Unless, they choose to go fully 3D on us, in which case that might be it...)

Colonization. Don't know how much to bet on that, but it would be sweeeet.

Magic: The Gathering. Meh. Don't think so. Not E3 scale.

Gettysburg and the Civil War Series. That may as well be it, but I didn't particularly like any of those games, so I'm hoping they would choose something else.

Alpha Centaury. Would be nice, but like mentioned above, chances are slim.

Any other speculations?

[Urban Ranger]

X-COM.

[asleepathewheel]

Yeah its probably that x-com remake, or something in that series. They've had the license now for what, a year?

[thinkingamer]

Originally posted by vovansim


Yup, Infogrames.

lol I know, but the first time i saw i really was confused by the r but oh well.....

[thinkingamer]

Originally posted by ColdWizard
bashing Infogrames on gaming forums.

btw, imo the best answer so far

[vovan]

Don't see Sid Meier working on X-COM. Can't imagine that at all...

[JCG]

I doubt they are doing anything too serious...probably throwing around random game concepts/ideas and stuff. IE: semi-lazy people.