{"id":14296,"date":"2011-09-27T13:10:00","date_gmt":"2011-09-27T11:10:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"bioware-hasn-t-abandoned-the-jade-empire-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/14296-bioware-hasn-t-abandoned-the-jade-empire-series","title":{"rendered":"BioWare hasn\u2019t abandoned the Jade Empire series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you&rsquo;d given up all hope of seeing a new Jade Empire game, don&rsquo;t throw yourself off that mountain crag just yet &ndash; there may be a glimmer of good news on yonder horizon.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at the recent Eurogamer Expo, BioWare&rsquo;s Ray Muzyka has confirmed that the company hasn&rsquo;t binned the series just yet.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s an IP, it&#8217;s a setting that we&#8217;re really passionate about, and we still are. Both Greg [Zeschuk] and I were big believers in the IP,&rdquo; said Muzyka.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re just looking for the right way to deploy it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The original game was launched on Xbox back in 2005, and on PC in 2007, with rumours of a sequel doing the rounds ever since.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have a lot of different projects now on a lot of different platforms, and you might see some of [Jade Empire] in the future. You never know,&rdquo; added Muzyka.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We don&#8217;t have anything to announce on it right now, but it is a franchise that&#8217;s near and dear to us.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Which is also pretty much exactly <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gametrailers.com\/episode\/gametrailers-tv\/78&amp;ch=1&amp;sd=0?ep=78&amp;ch=1&amp;sd=0\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"GT.TV\">the same thing he said in 2009<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\"><em>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/articles\/2011-09-24-bioware-drs-on-jade-empire-comeback\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Eurogamer\">Eurogamer<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/18180-BioWare-hasn&rsquo;t-ditched-the-Jade-Empire-series\" target=\"_self\" title=\"BioWare hasn&rsquo;t abandoned the Jade Empire series\"><strong>BioWare hasn&rsquo;t abandoned the Jade Empire series<\/strong><\/a> &lt;&lt; Comments and views<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&quot;We&#039;re just looking for the right way to deploy it.&quot;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":157,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/157"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14296\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}