Sid Meier Developing Pirates! Remake

Thanks to an anonymous reader for pointing out a press release at Yahoo stating that Sid Meier's company Firaxis has signed a long-term publishing deal with Atari. This includes the announcement of Sid Meier's Pirates!, a remake of the classic Microprose strategy title, for 2004 release, and another Civilization III add-on pack, Civilization Conquests, for Xmas 2003. Since Atari, formerly Infogrames, purchased Microprose a couple of years back, they've transferred the rights to Silent Service, Colonization, and many more classic Meier titles to Firaxis, and these are also mentioned for possible remakes down the road.

Praise Be To One Eye'd Willy!

[th3walrus]

Maybe we'll finally get a decent pirate themed game. Sea Dogs was buggy. Sea Dogs 2 was looking good until it became Pirates of the Caribbean (Blech... Disney). Pirates! still remains the ultimate pirate game.

Anyone tried Tropico 2: Pirate Cove? That's supposed to be pretty decent as well.

Just to expand on the story

[NetDanzr]

The rights to the following games were transfered back to Firaxis:

• Sid Meier's Pirates! [joystick101.org]
• Sid Meier's Colonization [goodolddays.net]
• Covert Action [demon.co.uk]
• Gunship [helosim.com]
• Silent Service [demon.co.uk]
• F-19 Stealth Fighter [the-underdogs.org]
• F-15 Strike Eagle [mobygames.com]
• CPU Bach [gamespot.com]

(I've been following this development for some time, due to the fact that this deal would take the games from under the IDSA [idsa.com] protection, where Firaxis is not a mamber.)

Pirate games!

[Echnin]

This is awesome! Will take a while for it to come out, though.

Meanwhile, you might be interested in this game, World of Pirates [4players.de]. It's an MMORPG set in, er, a Pirate universe. That doesn't sound right, but it's cool. Anyway, it's in beta at the moment, and you can sign up for it at their site.

Another good pirate game is Puzzle Pirates [puzzlepirates.com], where you do puzzles for piratey stuff. Pretty cool. In open beta.

Really looking forward to this Pirates! remake, though. It'll kick all those games' asses. :)