Spacetime Studios regains Blackstar rights from NCsoft
by Akela Talamasca 
May 9th 2008 at 11:00AM
Filed under: Sci-fi, Business models, MMO industry, New titles, News items, Legal, Blackstar
Earlier this year it was reported that NCsoft had cancelled development on Blackstar, Spacetime Studios' intriguing science fiction MMO. Unwilling to let that deter them, the studio continued to develop the title, hoping that an enterprising (no pun intended) backer would com along to rescue the studio from limbo.
Well, there's even better news: Spacetime has newly acquired the rights to the IP, meaning that complete creative control is in their hands. From the press release: "After two years of development, the Blackstar universe is quite near and dear to our hearts" said Gary Gattis, executive producer and co-founder of Spacetime Studios. "Owning the IP as well as the engine and tool set puts a tremendous amount of potential in our hands. With all the developed components under the Spacetime team's control, the options for the IP are diversified."
Congratulations, Spacetime! Expect an exclusive interview to appear on Massively very soon.
[Thanks, Gary!]
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Lina said on 1:03PM 5-09-2008
This is frankly great to see!! Since we'll now see the game with its rights intact and the people making the game have full control over it!! That means less of a chance of a botch up move by the publisher :P. So if its bad we can actually blame Spacetime and not NcSoft.
The game itself looks promising from what I've seen..... Here is hoping them having creative control only makes it better!!!
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