MS to publish Gas Powered Games

July 1998 keeps moving, and today the headline is simple: MS to publish Gas Powered Games. today announced it has signed a multi-title development deal with Gas Powered Games, a new company formed by Chris Taylor, lead designer of Total Annihilation, a critically acclaimed real-time strategy game.

Taylor, a veteran PC and console games developer with more than a decade of experience creating hit titles for major software publishers, will create a role-playing game as the first project under his deal with Microsoft. For PC players watching every demo, patch, driver and announcement right now, this is one more thing to keep on the board.