THQ hint at Warhammer 40,000 MMO

Mike Bantick
Thursday, 01 March 2007 08:25

Opinion and Analysis

This new THQ – Games Workshop licensing agreement is focused on bringing us the dark gothic world ruled by an ever living but decayed Emperor, his super-psychic beacon literally guiding humans through a hostile universe of alien and deamonic threats.

Flock gives the strongest hint and details about the proposed game; “We are very excited to be working with Games Workshop on the first-ever MMO game based on the Warhammer 40,000 universe. Our agreement calls for worldwide rights, so we definitely plan to launch the game across North America, Europe, and Asia. We are very early in development, so it would be premature to comment on potential ratings, but we plan to build a game that both Warhammer 40,000 fans and MMO gamers will be excited to play--one that is true to the rich universe Games Workshop has built--with scalable depth of characters and worlds that MMO fans have come to expect”

When queried about the status of the game, Flock replied; “…, we have the game in development at our Austin-based studio, Vigil Games. The team there is led by David Adams, formerly of NCsoft, and is comprised of several MMO veterans from that community. We look forward to making further announcements with more specifics on the game in the coming months.”

We also look forward to further announcements on this exciting project.