Silicon Knights could join a major publisher in the era of consolidation

by Xav de Matos { Aug 28th 2008 at 10:00AM }

In the final part of our three-part interview with Silicon Knights president Denis Dyack we discussed the one console future, specifically the topic of consolidation. With companies such as Electronic Arts purchasing developers like BioWare and Pandemic and Microsoft purchasing Lionhead, does Denis Dyack see Silicon Knights joining a major company in the future?

"I think I see that for everybody," Dyack told X3F. "I think what is really important for us, more than anything else, is that we're allowed to create great games, grown in the way we want to grow [and] maintain our culture."

While Dyack isn't adverse to the possibility he did contend that any thought on the matter now is pure speculation on his part. "Who knows, it's like trying to predict what the weather is going to be like a week from now."

Tags: consolidation, denis-dyack, interview, silicon-knights

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Dirty @ Aug 28th 2008 10:57AM

People do that all the time, they are called Meteorologist. They give a 10 day forecast.... that's more that a whole week! Must be a bunch of wizards and psychics those folks.

JW @ Aug 28th 2008 11:13AM

Ok, first: your grammar is horrible so please proofread your posts so that others do not have to struggle just to weed through your misspellings and stupidity.

Second: Unless you live in Phoenix, AZ, the weather-report is rarely correct 100% of the time. Clearly, you're just trying to muster more negative feedback for SK and DD.

Seriously, all of these hate-posts for Denis and SK is getting ridiculous. Apparently, there are a lot of gamers out there that have a lot of growing up to do. If only they knew how ridiculous and incompetent they appeared....

Patton @ Aug 28th 2008 11:35AM

Does getting a major publisher result in better games?

JW, the reason Denis is getting so much flak is that he is very outspoken about Too Human and Epic's licensing of the Unreal engine. There are plenty of games that have used that same engine that were quality releases, released in a reasonable time frame, and didn't totally suck.

You can't blame the community for coming down hard on the guy.

Knight Marquise @ Aug 28th 2008 12:34PM

Sorry Patton, I'm going to have to disagree with your excusing the current gang bang orgy of DD & SK hate.

Too Human has been as much fun as Bioshock or Mass Effect. (I've finished all 3 games AND enjoyed all 3 games)

Too Human has LESS technicle issues than Mass Effect, and has FAR more replay value then BioShock.

It's simply envogue for the gaming community to be hating on SK & DD, that's all there is too it.

My god, could you imagine the real outcry if Too Human had shit loading times & horrible texture pop a QUARTER as bad as Mass Effect? Or how about the shortness and zero replay value of BioShock.

When the complaints are around the camera, I consider them valid, but it's just out and out hate for the sake of hate from most of the gaming press and all the "sheeple" who follow them.