The fate of Red Baron Arcade is unclear

by Andrew Yoon { Nov 13th 2008 at 4:30PM }

When the giant Actiblizzard katamari acquired Sierra's game properties, the fate of Red Baron Arcade became unclear. The PSN game was scheduled for a release last September, but has since disappeared off the face of the earth. Gamers Platform is reporting that the game is canceled: "Sadly, Red Baron was never completed; they had to stop the project when Sierra Online was incorporated into Activision-Vivendi."

Our own contacts confirmed that Sierra Online is no more, but could not verify if the game has been canceled. "I can't confirm that the game itself has been canceled. Sierra Online is no longer however, so they won't publish."

Considering no one seems to know if the game exists anymore, it's probably safe to assume that the project is dead.

Tags: red-baron-arcade, sierra-online

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

AcidReaper @ Nov 13th 2008 4:40PM

what red baron never heard it lol

Vincent @ Nov 13th 2008 5:09PM

THANK YOU for answering my E-Mail question so quickly!!

Man I just sent that to you this morning..

I'm sad the game might be dead, but at least now i have answers.

Thanks PS3fanboy

Lars @ Nov 13th 2008 6:01PM

That sucks. From the videos it looks like it was pretty far along too. Just needed to up the framerate and let my dogfight my friends and it's a day1 purchase! Effing Actiblizzion.

Vincent @ Nov 13th 2008 11:32PM

Yes indeed, that's what I wanted, that's why I got Warhawk for the Dog Fighting, but I found I never use the planes in Warhawk, because I was looking for a different, more original dogfighting style.

Red Baron was my meal ticket.
PSN hasn't took the video of Red Baron off PSN either...

Lars @ Nov 14th 2008 1:08PM

Well, as the article states, it's not necessarily canceled... it's fate is unclear. I would hope they'd be smart and polish it up and push it out anyways, because it seems like it wouldn't take much to finish it based on the video. Distribution costs is a null factor with PSN too.

matt @ Nov 13th 2008 5:14PM

Aw, I was looking forward to it.

John S @ Nov 13th 2008 5:22PM

OT: It appears the store is down for me.

Foxx @ Nov 13th 2008 5:23PM

Well that's really too bad. I wonder what really happens with these game after they are so close to release. I mean by the trailer you would think the thing was practically done and if they were predicting a September release then it probably was but oh well. Must suck to be one of the developers that worked on it for so long :( Maybe Activision will eventually publish it on the network.