Microsoft gave Perfect Dark’s developers a chance to save the game — after it was already canceled

Here is where it becomes potentially confusing: Microsoft does not have crystal clear dynamics – this studio belongs to the Embrasis group, which has had many problems. So Kiss was trying to conclude an agreement with Yet another The publisher, The Giant Take-Two, to buy, finance and publish the game. But, reports Schreier:

The talks collapsed at least in part because the companies involved could not be reconciled in relation to the long -term property of the Perfect Dark Franchise, said people, who asked for anonymity because they were not allowed to speak of sensitive negotiations.

When this agreement fell Ign Reported last week and Schreier writes that Crystal Dynamics has now “completely” abandoned the game.

It seems that Microsoft did not want to abandon the rights Perfect Darkthat he probably obtained when he bought rare in 2002. (For the uninitiated, Perfect Dark was a spiritual successor of the rare Goldeneye 007 On the Nintendo 64, a game which has itself passed several decades without renewal due to a complicated license situation.) It looks like a shabby reason for the game to remain canceled, but we do not know the details.