A few months ago we reported that the developer of Stargate Worlds, Cheyenne Mountain Entertainment, was experiencing financial problems. While the company has continued to develop the long awaited MMO title during their financial crisis and released a handful of new screenshots, there's been no real news on its current status, much less a release date.

In a chat over at Gateworld.net it's clear Brad Wright, who has been the head producer of MGM's Stargate franchise since the launch of the Stargate SG-1 TV series, is not happy with Cheyenne Mountain's issues with finishing the game. He states, "They had an opportunity and they got our support, and they obviously had significant funding, and it didn't happen. It's kind of a drag for the fans and the time that we invested - what little of it there really was, in comparison to what they did - was still a shame that it was wasted, because it should have happened."

This isnt the first time a Stargate-based game has hit development troubles. A Stargate SG-1 FPS was canceled midway in its production in 2005 by its publisher JoWood. It had issues with how its developer handled the game. Wright feels that the sci-fi franchise has not been served well by all of these problems. He states, "Now MGM is back in a position where they don't have a product in that marketplace that they should. There should be a shiny Stargate game on the shelves right now and there isn't, and it's wrong."

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