Long story short, after High Road to Revenge was shipped, the team started to develop yet another Crimson Skies sequel before Microsoft decided to scrap the entire project and focus on other things. Later, through an interesting turn of circumstances, the Crimson Skies franchise was purchased by the ex-Microsoft employee founded company Smith & Tinker where it currently resides. A company who admittiedly loves the Crimson Skies franchise, but is currently busy with the Capcom published Dark Void.
All said, Crimson Skies is in loving hands with Smith & Tinker, but a sequel isn't high priority right now. Though, they do leave the door open to developing more airplane funnery, admitting that they have "a lot of Crimson Skies fans around here, and if the stars aligned, it'd be something we'd definitely be willing to explore again." Our fingers are crossed.
[Via Joystiq]
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
5-22-2008 @ 12:11PM
xenocidic said...
By far my highest-played oXbox Live title...great game...
long live the dust devil !
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5-22-2008 @ 12:12PM
Jason said...
I miss that game, it was so badass! CS is why I got Live in the first place.
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5-22-2008 @ 12:19PM
ZeitgeistXIII said...
It was one of the first games I got for my xbox:) It looked great and played so well. A new updated version would be on my must have list if done right.
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5-22-2008 @ 12:30PM
Gemini Ace said...
Makes me want to play it now.
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5-22-2008 @ 12:42PM
Hobo Fight Club said...
Dustin, I think you got the story wrong. Smith & Tinker own the IP while Airtight games is comprised of former members of the Crimson Skies team. Airtight games is developing Dark Void. I think Smith & Tinker would just rather wait for Airtight to finish work on Dark Void so they could then have them move on to a Crimson Skies sequel.
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5-22-2008 @ 1:57PM
gundamxzero said...
I think it
should be mentioned this was out for PC long before xbox.
But it was a very fun game to play online.
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5-22-2008 @ 2:29PM
schwal said...
"High Road to Revenge" was Xbox exclusive though. That said, this was one of my favorite games, and one of the first i beat on normal difficulty. gimme a sequel.
"Honey, Do you mine if I leave on my socks?"
5-22-2008 @ 3:36PM
Trekster_Gamer said...
THIS WOULD BE AWESOME!
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5-22-2008 @ 8:48PM
Gus said...
CS was awesome on the PC, mostly because I really liked playing with the MS Sidewinder force feedback flightstick. I would love *love* it if MS made something like that again for the xbox.
Hint Hint.
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5-23-2008 @ 6:18AM
Marcel hatam said...
Hobo is right:
The Crimson Skies rights were bought by Jordan Weisman's (creator of CS, BattleTech and Shadowrun) new company Smith & Tinker, which is unrelated to Airtight Games, which largely consists of the former Crimson Skies 3 team and is now working on Dark void for Capcom.
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