Wired pulled off a pretty good interview with M$’s Shane Kim from DICE. The best part? Questions about Crackdown. Here’s the snippet:

I really have to ask — we did our Top Ten games for the year, and we put Crackdown at number ten. But then what I heard was, they’re not working on Crackdown 2, that team moved somewhere else and Microsoft didn’t option it. Is that true? And if so, why?

We own the Crackdown intellectual property. We have a great partnership with Real TIme Worlds, and they’re pursuing a different path from a company perspective. So I wouldn’t say that it’s Microsoft not picking up the option there. I don’t really want to talk about that discussion, but it wasn’t the case where — we still love Crackdown. We consider that a pretty successful title for us, high-quality, I think that customers would like to see more in that space. So that’s an option for us. But I think for Real Time Worlds, they made a company decision.

So it’s on the table that some day in the future you could take Crackdown and bring it somewhere else.

And any intellectual property that we own can always be on the table. And the good news is that we happen to own the Crackdown IP.

Feel free to discuss in our forum.

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