“Jordan Weisman, founder of FASA, has licensed the rights to MechWarrior, Shadowrun and Crimson Skies from Microsoft to his latest startup, Smith & Tinker.” S&T apparently aims to draw on the lessons of ARGs, the medium Weisman helped pioneer at his company 42 Entertainment, and carry them into the realm of Internet-connected real-world objects (in the form of games and toys). No announcement has yet been made that gets more specific than that. But if you put CS, SR and MW in a blender and poured the resulting paste all over a website, it would indeed look like Smith & Tinker’s.
Microsoft is better off selling the rights back to Weisman, since their HALO franchise is doing too well.
This has promise… I know I’d be all over a Crimson Skies web-based RPG/ARG/whathaveyou.
This makes, what, his third or fourth company to help found? Amazing. I hope he has as much success with this one as he did with FASA and WizKids
If I can get a Battletech MMORPG out of this, I will never be seen again. (See there is incentive for a write in campaign for you guys).
Chris – I hadn’t thought of that. Trying to stop from being insanely giddy…
Not a fan of MMORPG, except those with free online play services.