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Starbreeze bought all Cinemaware IP in 2016 and.....
....from what I can see haven't done much with them.
Is Starbreeze the reason the modern remake of It Came from the Desert went silent, author never comments on videos uploaded and the dev blog is no longer public? Shame because it was looking really cool. |
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This might be one of the reasons: https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articl...-of-insolvency
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If they had a quiet word with the person working on the remake of Desert and told him to stop that is sad, the word desert or cinemaware doesn't appear anywhere on that page so I can't see how that answers my query. |
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Okay. Payday 2 was huge. Starbreeze thought they can ride that wave forever. They spend way too much money on things including Cinemaware. Shortly afterwards it went south (they bid on the wrong horse and the Walking Dead FPS didn't cash out) and they barely survived by making licensed DLC for Payday 2. So that's why the Cinemaware license got nowhere and people that thought the games are up for grabs (Cinemaware games were free to download at one point) might just have been dropping their projects.
All of the above is just an educated guess. I do remember the time that free Cinemaware Amiga releases were pulled off the internet because new people bought the license to them. |
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I luckily downloaded all those Cinemaware titles for all the formats before they disappeared. Just goes to show how you can’t rely on the internet to be a permanent entity of any kind.
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Sadly a HD crashed and I lost my copy of the children's Saturday morning show Saturday Superstore 1984 which had the first ever computer games chart special and the 90-120 minute video is now gone from the internet. |
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It's still possible to get a new copy of Rocket Ranger that has an Amiga version
https://dragonbox.de/en/for-pc/rocke...s-edition.html They also have Wings (but it doesnt have an Amiga version) Other Cinemaware games like Defender of the Crown seems to have been available at one stage.. |
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The games on Cinemaware were free back then: https://web.archive.org/web/20060114...sgame_dotc.asp
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I am pretty sure my Cinemaware collection is complete, although I only have the ST version of SDI but it's not a great game and I am happy to play pirate disks on the Amiga.
I might check out Antheads one day, never played it but I have 2 copies. |
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