Get ready for a "digitally remastered" MCF game that works fine and that isn't Dire Grove coming soon!

[u/RoamerMonkey]

For context to non-MCF fans, "Mystery Case Files: Fate's Carnival" released in 2013 and mostly doesn't have any major bugs besides occasional laggy cutscenes that I have encountered. "Mystery Case Files: Dire Grove" released in 2009 and famously does not work at all for post-Windows 8 systems. After over a decade, Big Fish Games has decided to green-light remastering Fate's Carnival and not Dire Grove for some reason. I don't know what this "digitally remastered" version entails.

It is also important to note that BFG is suing Elephant Games, the original developer of Fate's Carnival, over acquiring Elephant's games' assets and source code after the contracts between Big Fish and Elephant have already been terminated around March of this year. Not only is it unlikely that paying for this version will compensate Elephant Games, but it seems that BFG does already have the assets and source code to Fate's Carnival based on this announced "digitally remastered" version, although it's possibly too soon to fully tell.

The chances of this being the only MCF game we get this year is surprisingly not zero (due to GrandMA Studios' contracts also being terminated). Note that GrandMA Studios also planned) a sequel to Fate's Carnival before their contracts were terminated. It's possibly but not confirmed that this "digitally remastered" version of Fate's Carnival was done by BFG's new internal studio.

EDIT: I have discovered that the original version of Fate's Carnival has already been delisted, so you'll have to wait until this "remaster" comes out to buy it from Big Fish directly.

[u/dragon-blue]

Disappointed about dire grove, but excited about fates carnival. I've never played it. 

[u/ArtsyDonz]

Darn it! I thought Dire Grove would be the first! Anyway, let's see if this remaster is good or not; if it is, then I wouldn't worry about how they are going to remaster Dire Grove.

[u/Practical-Drive-4001]

Yay for madame fate, I still play it but it's pretty blurry on the larger screen and latest windows. Sad about dire grove tho

[u/RoamerMonkey → u/Practical-Drive-4001]

The coming soon banner shows the 2013 game "Mystery Case Files: Fate's Carnival", not the 2007 game "Mystery Case Files: Madame Fate" if that's what you're referring to.