For anyone interested, this company is unrelated to the original Microprose from a corporate history perspective, it’s just some people who bought the name “Microprose” at an IP auction. However they have enlisted Wild Bill Stealey as some kind of advisor, so they are at least attempting to connect with the history.

(Wild Bill was one of the two founders of Microprose. The other, Sid Meier, has his own things going on.)

I’m unclear as to whether this new Microprose has rights to any of the original Microprose games, either in a “rereleasing the original” or in a “doing a remake” sense. Obviously TakeTwo has a lot of the rights — either that they bought directly or that Sid/Firaxis had and they acquired when they bought out Firaxis — which is how they can release new Civ and XCOM and Pirates. I think Sid owns Silent Service too, to pick a random example of one they haven’t done anything with, though I don’t remember for sure.