The latest issue of Games for Windows Magazine contains more information about the new project at Arkane Studios (developer of Dark Messiah's single-player campaign), and its innovative cross-player gameplay:

"The merging of single and multiplayer in The Crossing happens when "story players" (either by themselves or in co-op mode) suddenly switch over to fight live "skirmish players". Skirmish players can also go into story missions, taking over enemies that normally would be controlled by a game's AI. Arkane Studios is apparently planning to control the game's servers for players of The Crossing to assure that the mixing of single and multiplayer matches is seemless."

It ain't Magic and Magic, so I'm talking about that game only because there's not much going on so far this year, and I wanted to point out that a studio as small as Arkane probably cannot work on two games simultaneously. If they're not involved in the game Jeff Spock referred to, I wonder what Tim Lang and the folks at Nival U.S. are doing these days.