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Gas Powered Games, the team behind the Dungeon Siege and Supreme Commander franchises, has been bought by World of Tanks creator Wargaming.net. Gas Powered Games has had recent trouble staying afloat, with a large amount of layoffs leading to a recently cancelled Kickstarter. Wargaming is going to take full ownership of GPG, including CEO and founder Chris Taylor. Wargaming will look to push harder into multiplatform expansion with this acquisition, though only time will tell what that entails. Will we ever see Wildman again? Is this simply to make the World of Tanks and future games bigger and better? It's hard to know for sure, but at least people still have jobs over at Gas Powered Games, as they are definitely a talented bunch. Did you know? You can now get daily or weekly email notifications when humans reply to your comments.
8:00 PM on 04.12.2013 Chris Taylor would love to work on Total AnnihilationIn the what-if scenario of the day, Gas Powered Games founder Chris Taylor has stated his desire to work on real-time strategy property Total Annihilation again. "I would love to yes, but the problem is you can’t j...
11:00 PM on 04.02.2013 Gas Powered Games is now working on a free-to-play MMOAlthough Wildman went unfunded on Kickstarter, I was still interested to see if Gas Powered Games could (and would want to) continue working on the project following the studio's acquisition by free-to-play powerhouse Wargami...
9:30 PM on 02.11.2013 Gas Powered Games shuts down Wildman KickstarterDuring Gas Powered Games' Kickstarter campaign for action-RTS/RPG game Wildman, "a substantial number of the team" was laid off to avoid a situation where employees wouldn't receive severance pay if things didn't work out. Ul...
8:30 PM on 01.18.2013 Gas Powered Games sees layoffs, might close KickstarterWhen thinking of what-if scenarios that you wouldn't want to happen while running a Kickstarter campaign, I feel like "layoffs" would be up there pretty high. Days after seeking crowdfunding support for its action-RPG/RTS Wil...
4:30 PM on 01.14.2013 Gas Powered Games turns to Kickstarter for WildmanTeased last month by Gas Powered Games as "Project W," the studio's next game has now been unveiled as Wildman. This PC-only title will draw from the team's prior experience working on Dungeon Siege, Supreme Commander, and De...
9:30 PM on 01.03.2013 No more new content planned for Age of Empires OnlineBit of disappointing news for those of you actively playing Age of Empires Online, but nothing can last forever. Excluding some finished content scheduled to hit in the next few weeks, Gas Powered Games won't be adding anythi...
7:00 AM on 12.19.2012 Gas Powered Games website teases 'next big thing'It's been a while since I've seen one of these teaser websites, and while I can't say I miss them, I'd be interested to hear what Gas Powered Games has been up to lately. The studio is teasing something over here with a count...
12:20 PM on 08.24.2010 Gas Powered Games has 'a lot of interest in' Demigod 2Demigod was a good game. As such, a sequel to Demigod would be -- I have to imagine -- received well. In a Gamescom-flavored interview between Gamers.fr and Gas Powered Games' leading man Chris Taylor, the notion of doing a f...
4:40 PM on 04.16.2010 Supreme Commander 2 PC patch 1.11 is a big oneGas Powered Games hasn't been vacationing after the somewhat recent completion of Supreme Commander 2. And if they have, well, those cats know how to mix business with pleasure. Following last week's release of a hefty patch ...
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