25 years after its original release, Star Control II is officially getting a sequel — and it's coming from the game's creators.
Fred Ford and Paul Reiche announced on their blog that a direct sequel to Star Control II — The Ur-Quan Masters is in the works, and it will be called Ghosts of the Precursors.
"Pretty much ever since [Star Controll II], fans have been politely asking us to create a sequel, sometimes begging for a sequel, even threatening us if we don’t make a sequel. Our answer was always, “We really want to do this, we just need to wait until the time is right” ... Well, the stars have finally aligned," the announcement post reads.
The announcement stresses that the sequel is "early, early in development," but that it will include a host of familiar aliens, ships, and characters, as well as new alien races to discover, befriend, and even annihilate. "This is a passion project for us and we have committed to dedicating some of our own time to creating a true sequel."
Star Controll I and II came from Toys for Bob, the development studio that would go on to make the Skylanders toys-to-life franchise, for which there will be no new console entry from the developer this year.. Though the studio created the Star Control franchise, now-defunct studio Legend Entertainment developed Star Control 3, which was released in 1996.
The 1992 sequel and the 1990 original were PC games made in the style of the classic space combat game Spacewar! Last year, developer Stardock announced it would be producing Star Control: Origins after the company acquired the rights to the franchise from Atari.
Jonathon Dornbush is an Associate Editor for IGN. Find him on Twitter @jmdornbush.
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