Not entirely on topic, but the future of this company right now hinges on a commercial success of Too Human... Almost all of the company assets are resouces are tied up on this game. In the recent newspaper article it was said that SK considers TH to ba a "make or break" title - they have MS, SEGA and other big labels holding back their decision on new projects untill it will be clear how TS fared. In highly competitive gaming industry, you are only as good as your last game...

Why does news surrounding SK always seem so controversial?

how could they not mention Legacy of Kain???

What ever happened with their lawsuit against Epic games where they were asking for all the profits Epic made from Gears of War?

maybe SK purposefully put false info out on the web just so people don't forget who they are, and then they get their name out again just by denying the rumor... if that's the case, then that's sad

andyrae11 He probably smokes too much pot with his employees thats why the game has been in development for years. If hes going to step down from something, then step off the pot. Its time to grow up and work like a man.

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He is a stoner that makes video games? Well.... He might actually know what gamers really want in a game then, heh. Too Human might just be friggin awsome.

Why put up false info

Well if you can't deliver 4 player online co-op, and 2 player split screen, you might as well step down.

Lol. Just kidding. Not happy about those two things, but as long as Too Human does decent, he has incentive to stay around. Let's see how it turns out.

If Dyack stands down, the 'knights' part in Silicon Knights will be gone, he really knows his stuff and those who watched the interviews on Too Human and other Silicon games show that he really knows how to bring good narrative to a game and how to make the game very interesting.

Though it's amazing how people get the wrong idea so quickly

As someone who works on the business side of software, I have to say, this just confirms that Dyack is one of the most brilliant minds in the business. Dyack's not saying he wants to leave his role with the company, what he's saying is that Silicon Knights is doing so well that he will need help in the future.

It takes a smart guy to realize when you're going to get pulled in too many directions at once - Dyack is in a position now that Bill Gates was in a few decades ago. Bill Gates wanted to stay focused on developing Microsoft's products, so he hired Steve Ballmer to act as the Accounting / Finance "go to" for Microsoft.

Obviously Dyack is now in that position - he wants an Accounting / Finance / Management kind of person to help deal with the day-to-day tasks, handle the payroll, manage the books, keep the taxes dealt with, chat it up with producers, that sort of thing, so that he can be free to make the best games possible. That's simply great news. One of the things that may come of this is that Silicon Knights may be able to take on more projects at once - if Dyack has to think less about the business management aspects of SK, then he can devote more time to the game creation aspects.

He was speaking in a future tense concerning that quote about IP and business partner. Unfortunately you can't get emotions across on the internet. As soon as someone even hints at something, you'll get some knuckleheads quoting an out-of-context "CONFIRMED"

He's one of the best creative minds in the industry.

eternal darkness 2!!! come on dennis get with it.

They should merge with Rare, that should cut down their production times to about 6 years per game.

He probably smokes too much pot with his employees thats why the game has been in development for years. If hes going to step down from something, then step off the pot. Its time to grow up and work like a man.

I truthfully wasn't that interested in Too Human until I heard about the possible Eternal Darkness 2 rumors. With ten years of time and millions of dollars invested, SK can't afford to have Too Human have a substandard performance, and neither can I. Must have Eternal Darkness 2, so I guess buying Too Human is a necessity. Pitch in, show support, and all that. Worth the price if it contributes at all to the Eternal Darkness franchise being revived.

People will write down anything to get more hits.

I wish the best for Silicon Knights. I think they're a great company and I think Dennis Dyack has ran it great, and would hate to see him step down. I hope that Too Human is very successful so that we can see more games from them as well as an Eternal Darkness sequel.

Sounds like Dyack needs to lay off the crack pipe before giving interviews.

He's French Canadian, what do you want?

"I was as surprised to see this as everyone else. I am not stepping down."

Why was he surprised that people thought he was stepping down after reading this, "I'm leaning towards staying creative…So in the end, as the company grows, for my role I'll probably hire someone to be my boss and help run the company."?

Hopefully there will be huge success with Too Human, and then then can work on Eternal Darkness 2 Please!!

Too Human looks awesome. A couple of years ago it was looking kinda half-ass, but now it's one of my most anticipated games. Dyack seems like a really random guy. He did sound like he was going to step down at some point, but I guess creative people don't mean half the stuff they say while wondering out loud to themselves.

Thank goodness, Too Human will be great.

I hope too human turns out to be great. I've loved silicon knights since eternal darkness, that was such a great game.