"Although we were sad to stop working on CZ, we are extremely excited about the progress of our spy project," said Micro Forte studio head Steve Wang. "We are at an exciting crossroads where many new game-play styles and experiences have become possible in virtual world environments. This is a great opportunity for us to leverage our 7 years of development in the MMO space to bring the social MMO experience together with game-play that has been traditionally the domain of single player games."

Today's announcement comes just one day after news that John Romero's Slipgate Ironworks will be licensing the BigWorld MMO technology suite, developed by Micro Forte and originally planned for use in Citizen Zero. There are currently at least half a dozen games known to be making use of BigWorld. According to today's press release, Micro Forte has other MMO properties being developed as well.