On November 29th, Vivendi Universal Games (VUG) announced that Phoenix Online Studios, the group producing the sequel of their King’s Quest franchise, would be allowed to continue their endeavors, granting them a fan-license. The negotiations required that the name of the sequel be changed from “King’s Quest IX: Every Cloak Has A Silver Lining” to merely “The Silver Lining”. The VUG press release is as follows: “After extensive evaluation, Vivendi Universal Games is pleased to announce that the fan developed trilogy project ‘The Silver Lining’ (previously known as King’s Quest IX: Every Cloak Has A Silver Lining), based on characters from Sierra Entertainment’s ‘Kings Quest’ series, has been given approval to continue development. We look forward to seeing the first of its three upcoming chapters, ‘Shadows’, completed soon.” This is great news for the KQ series, as now the halted fan-developed project of the ninth sequel has been officially revived and should debut in the main-stream market sometime in 2006.