Back on September 6 I posted a blog entry about Myst game creator Cyan Worlds closing its doors. Check it out here.
Well, reporter Dean Takahashi's blog on the San Jose Mercury News site posted on Wednesday that Cyan had a "narrow escape of death" and that writing its obituary would be a bit premature. Snippet:
I was about to prepare the company's obituary. But Cyan isn't dead yet. I sent an e-mail off to Rand and he answered, "We've had a reprieve. Managed to pull a rabbit out of the hat (that I can't give details about yet), so we rehired almost everybody. Crazy industry. It's giving me whiplash!" This company has had an incredible run since Miller and his younger brother Robyn founded it in 1987. They created "The Manhole," the first game on a CD-ROM. And in 1991, they began work on Myst. They released it on Sept. 24, 1993, and they changed the gaming world.
Today, Cyan Audio Director Tim Larkin has an interview posted on his Music4Games.net site mentioning that Cyan is "going in a bit of a new direction." Check out the interview here.
Reviews of Myst V have been pretty positive. Guess I need to check it out.
Thanks to Joystiq for the links here and here.
-aB
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