Stardock"s recently-announced Elemental: War of Magic is the developer"s own internal creation -- but it"s no secret that the Michigan-based company originally intended to secure the sequel rights to Microprose"s 1995 game Master of Magic.
As it turns out, that"s not the only lapsed property the Stardock team dreams of getting its hands on -- and not the only one currently owned by Atari, for that matter.
"I actually pitched Atari on a whole idea for a true successor to Star Control," CEO Brad Wardell tells Gamasutra, noting that the game would follow original series developer Toys for Bob"s Star Control II rather than the Legend Entertainment-developed Star Control 3 ("We just pretend that never happened," the CEO says of that release).