The news section says that UbiSoft just bought BlueByte. I really dont think that this will be a good match as the news suggests. Ubisoft has a history of messing up games and thier devolpers. If you recall a few years ago they bought Interactive Magic. And thus aquired the rights to the popular Capitalism liscense and the less popular but noless quality Seven Kingdoms licesnces. Both games made by a small company based in Hong Kong.
For Seven Kingdoms 2
To begin with the renegotion process delayed the relase of the game atleast two months. Causeing it to miss out on an important sales time before its largest commpettion AOE2 came out. When Enlight wanted to publish thier game on thier own Ubi threatened to sue which would have lead to and extended and expensive leagal battle (delaying the game even longer) when Enlgiht was already in financial straits. When they finaly did make an agreement (which i bet wasnt in Enlights favor)
They A
1.Charged Enlight to send free copys to themselves and thier Beta Testers.
2.Then Sent them the wrong version
3. Printed and distributed the wrong game mannuel (the one sent out was an scanty,largely inacurate and outdated version)
4. Added copy-right protection that made it impossible to play multiplayer and didnt compensate Enlgiht for the patch.
5.Had no advertising at all (the primary job of a publisher)

I think there was more but it was more than two years ago and this is off the top of my head.

Becasue they got screwed so badly sales were poor and there will likley never be another addtion to 7k or Capitalism again.

I certainaly wont be buying anything with the UbiSoft logo on it again.

I really hope this doesn't affect the availability of IL-2.

IL-2. When I hear that, I feel like I'm looking at the last Carrier Pigeon, or the last Dodo.

This mean UbiSoft dumb enough to okay Incubation 2? If so, then it be good. Yes!

-Geo the hopelessly optimistic Incubation fanatic :)

How did Incubation sell in Europe? It sold poorly over here.

I was joking. :) It sold okay in Europe and dreadful over here, as most games from Europe do. That probably explains why all the American game cos are getting bought by French publishers, cause they can't figure a way to get their own games to sell here.