It's official: Team Fury, the development team that was working on the water-based powerboat shooter Red Fury, has left its parent company, the iEntertainment Networks - the company formerly known as Interactive Magic. The team left the company in October of last year after I-Magic completely changed its focus from CD-ROM software development to online-only entertainment. It signed on in November with Virtus Corp, the parent company and cofounder of developer Red Storm. We managed to track down the team at its new home and learned that it is now hard at work on new, as yet undisclosed, projects at Virtus.
Red Fury was to be an innovative reinterpretation of the standard first-person shooter; players would control combat powerboats on the oceans of Mars. The game was to feature a highly realistic water-physics engine, which would have allowed players increased mobility and new combat maneuvers.
Development of the project has been suspended indefinitely, and though the rights to the game remain in the hands of the iEntertainment Networks, there has been no official word on whether or not the game will be picked up again.