Jason

"Creative Assembly has some very clever ideas on adapting its popular strategy games for the next wave of consoles"

They have had those before *Cough* Stormrise *Cough*

Sins of a Scrolling Empire?

As big as their player base is, I think there will still be plenty of people playing wow.

I want another Homeworld so badly

I couldnt agree more. The arrogance these people display makes them deserving of their failure. Maybe if he had set reasonable goals he could have completed a quality product on time, instead of blaming his publisher for not accepting delays.

Maybe thats why Hellgate failed and Torchlight succeeded.

It doesn't surprise me, EALA for years just cranked out clone after clone of the same game, and now people have just lost interest. It's a shame, they made Command and Conquer Generals, which was a brilliant game. The Zero hour expansion featured 3 factions with 3 subfactions for each that all could be played equally. Has that been done before or since?

Then they went on to make Battle for Middle Earth, which was probably the best RTS of its time and still ranks high on my list (though it was nice of them to take away the dedicated servers).

Then they went back to their old formula. Battle for middle earth 2 was ok but weaker than its predecessor, The expansion was a joke (trolls marching in formation. Seriously?) After that was Red Alert 3, which I would be ashamed to put my name on. And then finally C&C 4, which has become so distant from reality that no one is sure what they are playing anymore.

Ea could have put BFME on Steam, Impulse and Gamersgate for 9.99 and at least given continuing the game a chance, but true to EA's form, glance at the bottom line, then pull the plug.

Just make C&C Generals 2, and for the love of god put some thought into it.

Black and White and especially black and white 2 are not award worthy. Though I do love dungeon keeper.

Anyone know who has the rights to make RTS games for LOTR now?

It's odd that this is even a story. Anyone who has been to a lan party has probably played up to 12 hours, and I dont hear about gamers dropping like flies everywhere. I'm guessing this kid had some sort of medical condition.

Everytime Microsoft does anything, there is a "rumor" that it will lead towards a push for pc gaming.

So the quick answer is "No, it wont".