PC game adaptation of Games Workshop's Talisman cancelled

Posted Oct 13th 2008 8:00PM by John Callaham
Filed under: Downloads, RPG

Capcom has been concentrating a lot on their downloadable game titles. Their release of Bionic Commando Rearmed was a big hit and later this week the plan is to release the turn based strategy game Age of Booty. However it looks like a planned downloadable games has been shelved. That was Talisman, an adaptation of the Games Workshop fantasy board game that was first announced over a year ago for the PC and other platforms.

However, in a response to a fan's question about the status of the game on Capcom's message boards two months ago, company exec Christian Svensson stated, "After a misfire at the start, the details of which I won't get into, we evaluated several options for moving the project to new developers, but the costs of moving forward outweighted the potential revenue. I realize this will be disappointing for the fans of the game." Big Rooster was first named as the developer of the game. Their official web site now makes no mention of Talisman.

Tags: big-rooster, capcom, games-workshop, talisman

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

This is no surprise at all - Black Industries, the imprint of Games Workshop responsible for the latest version of Talisman (upon which the PC game was to be based) was closed a few months after the game's (spectacular) release.

With no company supporting or distributing it, the game's effectively died, and Capcom were sold the licensing rights to a game which had no realistic prospect of long-term success. The only surprising thing is that it took them so long to announce it.Posted at 10:08PM on Oct 13th 2008 by Stefan

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