Unfortunate Developments

Some of you might recall a two month old entry regarding a Japanese online Gundam game called Universal Century.net. I stated how it'd be great if we were to receive an English version of this game in the West. Unfortunately it was recently revealed that Namco Bandai has decided to pull the plug on this project later this year. The reasons are as of yet unknown, but this pretty much guarantees we won't be seeing anything of the sort here in Europe or the States. It's a shame really, because the concept of an open-ended online Gundam universe is truly appealing and would be something well worth paying a subscription fee for.

In similar news it seems that fans of Starsiege: Tribes will now finally be left in the dust, as Sierra is terminating support for it (and 20 other older titles) as of the 16th of August. This means you will likely no longer be able to play this freely downloadable game (since slightly before the release of Tribes: Vengeance) online in the near future. All other Sierra products mentioned were rather uninteresting, but you can find a full list here in case you're interested. However before you lose all hope: a similar thing happened to Microsoft's popular online space simulation game Allegiance, but this was later redistributed as a free release with community-run servers and still remains popular to this day. With some luck Sierra might allow a similar move on the part of the Tribes community.



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