Microids resurection?!

[stone]

Hi, it was some time since I was here, mainly because my life become extremly busy, but now it looks more promissing when it comes to free time.

Anyway I was shocked today to find news on one of Polish adveture sites telling that
Microids (or MC2 as it should now be called) starts to cooperate with White Bird Production with production of Sinking Island game. So they are alive. In one form or another Moreover their sites have changed. All of them (http://www.microids.com and main site for still life and sybiera) are stated as under construction. This is progress.

Here are some links to source of this information. I dont know french, I only base on polish news, so if anyone will find sth interesting there please share:)

http://www.afjv.com/press0703/070308_li ... _sokal.htm
http://www.jeuxvideopc.com/news/7826-au ... -noyee.php

[gail]

Good to see you back here, Stone.

This news about MC2 and White Bird Productions working together is a surprise. Thanks for the information.

[phil1908]

If you take a look to the details you will see that the company seens to be re-built...
indeed, Microids had disappeared after Ubisoft had baught the canadian part; it had made place in France to a company called MC2
after that, MC2 has baught too a part of Wanadoo to make an other new company that's called MC entertainment
the address of teh company isn't the same than before and all the sites are in construction...without more details...
just wait and...hope

[Pifou]

yes, it could be very nice...
because we have hundreds of posts to the old fan forums and it could be nice to retrieve them !...

i never forgot syb2.free is just a rescue island for pure fans...
i just hope the new admin can merge this forum, which (structure) is a mirror of the old one, to the new one...

if their old database does not exist anymore, i will keep the rescue island open for syberian's posts backup... you can trust me...


pif

[stone]

yep, if it were not for you, who knows what would happen with Syberia community, uniqe one in the world

[Pifou]

yep, if it were not for you, who knows what would happen with Syberia community, uniqe one in the world

yeah stone... never seen a place like that before... congrats friends...

[stone]

I wrote to White Birds to ask them about the news and their plans and here it is what they replayed:

Microïds/MC2 has never really stopped their activities. Namely, they are still distributing their back catalogue, including “Amerzone” and “Syberia” from Benoit Sokal. So far, our agreement only concerns “Sinking Island” distribution in North America. There are no plans for working together on Syberia sequels for example. We’ll see in the future…

So maybe one day...

[Pifou]

Syberia packages are still in the gamer's shops today in France...
they include :
- Amerzone
- Syb 1
- Syb 2

As the price is very cheap now (i would say ~15 €/$), i used to buy one from time to time the package in order to offer it to my friends for x-mas, bday or other...

Nice gift... isn't it ?...

pif

[raziel73]

I wrote to White Birds to ask them about the news and their plans and here it is what they replayed:

Microïds/MC2 has never really stopped their activities. Namely, they are still distributing their back catalogue, including “Amerzone” and “Syberia” from Benoit Sokal. So far, our agreement only concerns “Sinking Island” distribution in North America. There are no plans for working together on Syberia sequels for example. We’ll see in the future…

So maybe one day...

wow!thats simply amazing!that reply means there is some bit of hope :drool: thanks alot,stone.

[Sunich]

Some great news! I'm so exited! Thanks to the messenger!

[Overmann]

Men, Microids dot com lives again!

http://www.microids.com/

Coming soon... we'll see, but at least they really re-activated their website; maybe after this summer it will be full of content again, who knows!

[doomer]

Amazing news. Microids is alive!
I played Still Life recently and I must say that it was much much better than Post Mortem. Can't wait to see an update.

[Sunich]

hey hey hey! that's quite some news!

[Pifou]

thx for the news Overmann...

i cross my fingers for the coming back of Microïds team...
even if they did not show too much consideration about us when they closed the official sites, i'm glad they are back to support their fantastic games... (especially those of B.Sokal...)

nice to see you again Doomer & Sunich


pif

[Sunich]

yeah it's a shame i get to read the forum so rarely... job + girlfriend eat all of my time