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January 11, 2000

More on Raven...
Posted by @ 4:39 PM, EST
Raven's Kenn Hoekstra just updated his .plan with some more info:

"As our esteemed President Brian Raffel announced yesterday, we are, indeed, working on a PSX2 title. We have the development machines in hand (three in fact) but keep in mind that this project is in the wee, early stages. 90% or more of the company's efforts are going into finishing Soldier of Fortune and Voyager: Elite Force. The PSX2 project is in its infancy and really only a three or four man team at this point.

Our early efforts are being strictly focused on the technology side because there is quite a learning curve there. Jake Simpson, Pat Lipo and Gil Gribb are looking into the tech and getting up to speed on how to work with it. We are coordinating our efforts with Activision as well in an attempt to create a general knowledge pool that can be used by our console dev teams and their console dev teams simultaneously. They scratch our back and we scratch theirs (as the saying goes) as we all branch out in this new direction.

As far as the actual GAME part of it, we're merely brainstorming new ideas and working in the pre-planning stages. We have several ideas on the table and there are multiple directions we can go. Contrary to this report, our console plans have nothing to do with Heretic II. I suggested a DreamCast port of Heretic II some time ago (before the DC launch), but the idea never got off the drawing board. At this point, we are planning to move on to new horizons and a totally new (and unannounced) game title.

That said, Raven has three projects in development...Soldier of Fortune, Voyager and Project PSX2. We are also starting to formulate ideas for our next project after Soldier of Fortune. No word yet on whether that will be a Soldier of Fortune sequel, a totally new PC game, console game, Mac game or Atari 2600 cartridge. =)

More on Raven's future projects in the near future. Keep an eye to the sky!"
Thanks to the kick ass PC site Voodooextreme for the info.







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