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Posted by PsyLiam (Member # 73) on :

Yup, on top of all the Crusade problems, the B5 computer game, Into The Fire, has now been cancelled. It would have had Sheridan, Lochley, Garibaldi and several other cast-members, it was written by a B5 insider, helped by JMS, and looked very tasty, tasty enough to knock Freespace and X-Wing: Alliance into very small hats. And it's been cancelled.

First ones.com-info for B5:Into the Fire

Chris Franke (yeah, him. Not bloody Evan Chen) was doing the soundtrack and everything...

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Posted by Dan (Member # 129) on :

Yeah, 1999 has been a bad year in SciFi all together. DS9 ended, Crusade cancelled, probably the last year Voyager will be on air, this, First Wave (nuff said)......

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Senior Babylon 5/Crusade Editor
http://www.myrkr.com

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Beyond Babylon
http://www.b5mg.com/Beyond_Babylon

Posted by Dan (Member # 129) on :

Oh, and here's a bit extra:

Yeah, I got word of this today from one of the developers on the game; apparently the problem is two-fold: 1) because Sierra has taken so long to get
the game out, it has become expensive, and the additional million bucks used to relocate the facility north (and everyone involved) was charged against the
game, and 2) they made a deal with WB for X number of games in Y years, and they've chewed up most of that time already, and WB is (I'm told, haven't had a
chance to verify this yet) loathe to renegotiate since it's now taken --what?-- three, four years to get this first game out.

There's rumors that another studio might be interested in picking it up and finishing it off -- it was literally inches from being finished, and it's a
spectacular game -- but again that's only rumor, I don't know anything beyond that.

(The game would have allowed players to go through all of the major wars of the B5 universe -- the Dilgar War, the Earth/Minbari War, the Shadow War and the
Earth Civil War -- with a chance of affecting the outcomes and dealing with the temporal stresses caused by that.)

jms

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http://www.myrkr.com

Contributing Writer
Beyond Babylon
http://www.b5mg.com/Beyond_Babylon

Posted by Kosh (Member # 167) on :

Down in flames.

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