Silicon Knights bags more gov investment

By Robert Purchese Published 13 April, 2010

Denis Dyack raking it in for new game.

Too Human developer Silicon Knights has been given a further $4 million by the Canadian government to help produce a new and unannounced game.

The investment will help create around 65 long-term jobs. As to what the game will be, studio boss Denis Dyack isn't ready to say.

"In our industry, you have to be very careful never to announce anything until the right time. We can only say it's a next generation title and a high production value game," Dyack told The Welland Tribune (via GamesIndustry.biz).

"That's all we can say."

But that's not all that has been said. Way back in 2005, SEGA signed a publishing deal with Silicon Knights for what would now be called a current-generation game. Nothing more has been heard, but presumably the deal still stands.

In early 2008, Silicon Knights was granted 300,000 Canadian dollars to kick-start work on a psychological action thriller. And later that year, in the summer, a market survey unearthed an action-adventure by SK called The Crucible: Evil Within.

Then, in July 2009, a press release from Canada Telefilm detailing the projects approved for government aid listed Siren in the Maelstrom by Silicon Knights.

There's been no mention of Too Human 2, despite previous promises of a Trilogy.

Silicon Knights released action RPG Too Human in late summer 2008, but an epic and pricey development sadly only produced a 6/10 game.

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About Robert Purchese

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Comments (17) Latest comment 2 years ago

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  • matrim83 #1 2 years ago

    Just dont waste it on another Too Human FFS!

  • elvenscroll #2 2 years ago

    More Eternal Darkness please!

  • joe90 #3 2 years ago

    I actually likes Too Human, in an odd way.. I got where they were trying to go, but failed on the 'blow your own trumpet' score.

  • andywilkie35 #4 2 years ago

    I hope if they make another Too Human, they make it good this time.

  • EvilBob_leeds #5 2 years ago

    I didn't think too human was that bad, silly control system aside. Denis just built it up waaaaay to much, to the point where it could only be an instant classic or a fail in the eyes of the press.

  • othelaatko #6 2 years ago

    I liked Toohuman very much in fact. I would apreciate a sequel.

  • Shikasama #7 2 years ago

    I bet it's hockey game

  • Jonathan_Fakenham #8 2 years ago

    I played the demo several times, but Too Human still ended up sitting around unplayed in its tin foil wrapper. I even purchased it full price when it was new, but I just didn't want to get involved in that whole debacle when it was finally released.

    I've been meaning to play it though. I think it still is a game I'd like.
    Edited by Jonathan_Fakenham at 13/04/10 @ 09:50

  • LiveForever #9 2 years ago

    Just dont complain about epic not giving you support.

  • matrim83 #10 2 years ago

    I still cant get how anyone can like TH. It was boring, repetitive and the controls were totally supid.

  • PlugMonkey #11 2 years ago

    I quite liked the totally stupid controls.

    I just got bored because I had no idea who my character was, what he was trying to achieve or who was trying to stop him - basically all the building blocks required for a decent story.

  • sneetch #12 2 years ago

    I quite liked the controls too, although I didn't play enough to truly grok them it was a nice system.

  • laharl80 #13 2 years ago

    You have to feel for the canadian taxpayer.

  • hiddenranbir #14 2 years ago

    What a waste of government money. What other canadian devs are their? EA Canada!

  • Murton #15 2 years ago

    "You have to feel for the canadian taxpayer."

    At the least Canadian government will see some sort of return on these investments through taxation of the employees, the company and the sales of their games. Compare to our own government which has invested over 200 billion in the banks and has precisely nothing to show for it other than the banks themselves, which have been allowed to engage in massive job cuts and still retain their profits and bonus structure, all technically supported by the state.

  • laharl80 #16 2 years ago

    @Murton
    I agree with you.
    I don't think decent hardworking taxpayers should fund or bail out any company.
    I would be happy to decorate the lamp posts of this country with hung bankers.
    But when games are as expensive as they are and we're constantly being fleeced for maps,multiplayer modes,t shirts etc, its just as outrageous for taxpayers money to go to the gaming industry.

  • dudefella #17 2 years ago

    I liked Too Human, but wouldn't touch another game *just* like it with a barge pole. Needs many, many improvements.