THQ's to release a Warhammer 40K MMORPG at an unspecified date, the company's confirmed. The game is currently under development at THQ's wholly owned Austin-based outfit, Vigil Games. The title is a further extension of the company's grip over Games Workshop's number-crunching pen and paper RPG franchise, arriving after real success in the RTS field with Relic's Dawn of War series. THQ confirmed this morning that it has now signed a licensing deal for the 40K universe on all platforms lasting until 2013.
THQ's Warhammer 40K MMO, Dark Millennium Online "is going to be a masterpiece," reckons core games VP, Danny Bilson.
This may be my most anticipated game in the coming years...expecting a masterpiece! Only thing that worries me from the article is that they seem to be banking on WoW players migrating over, they should be aiming at bringing the millions of non-mmo/40k fans into their game.
If it's a boring as WoW they can keep it. I like playing the table top 40k, but, Wow is just a huge borefest.
Troy Benedict of GoozerNation recently had the privilege of speaking with Darksiders' lead designer Haydn Dalton about his career, his thoughts on the industry, and some of his upcoming projects like Warhammer 40K Online and Darksiders 2.
As THQ managed a successful turnaround for its most recent fiscal year, the company is keeping a close eye on development costs going forward.
In a Gamasutra-attended conference call after THQ's quarterly results, the publisher said that a relatively low initial investment in the upcoming Warhammer 40,000 MMO means that the game can reach breakeven more easily, as the low-cost Metro 2033 turned profit.
Purists will be mad but I love the Warhammer 40k universe. Very cool mythos, Emperor of Mankind and all that.
Purist be damned... I love 40k also and with WH Online and 40k Online it will rock. Hopefully it isnt a cooked up WOW graphics version of 40k I want the harcore bloodshed style that 40k has always been about. And YES when you see a chainsaw gun it will be originally 40ki because 40k had chainsaw bayonets long before Gears of War made it the cool thing to do.