Thanks to Smith & Tinker doing well, FASA founder Jordan Weisman would love to see a return of Crimson Skies when he thinks about old IPs in the ”wee hours of the night”.
Right now though they’re putting all their efforts behind a new MechWarrior, because it has such a huge following and it’s been too long since a MechWarrior game ”was done right.”
”I think Crimson Skies is something we’d love to get some energy around, and we have some devious plans–we’ll see if those materialize,” Weisman told GameSpot.
”I wanted to start with MechWarrior, because it really struck me as the one that had the largest existing fan base and it had been the longest since a MechWarrior title was done right,” he added. Smith & Tinker aren’t set to handle the IPs themselves though.
”The older properties–MechWarrior, Crimson Skies, Shadowrun, those kinds of things–those are kind of grandfathered in,” noted Weisman. ”They’re not really what we’re all about, and we won’t be developing and publishing those ourselves as a result.”
“We’ll be, like we are now, talking to other publishers and finding good homes for those, but they’re not what Smith & Tinker at its core is about.” So there looks to be more Crimson Skies on the horizon, does that get your propeller spinning?
See the trailer below for Smith & Tinker’s revival of MechWarrior.
