Shrygue
June 24th, 2008, 20:32
via Eurogamer (http://www.eurogamer.net/article.php?article_id=158917)
Speaking to our sister site GamesIndustry.biz, racing game specialist Eutechnyx has revealed it's working on a casual MMO title.
The Newcastle-based studio, currently working on Ferrari Challenge, promises the game will be very different to other casual MMOs. Apparently it will have comparable visual quality to its console games, a flexible business model and will be released in 2010.
"This is an area of giant excitement for us," North American director Todd Eckert said in today's interview. "Although it's a casual MMO, any similarity between what we're doing and most casual MMOs will be purely coincidental. It's a very involved project.
"What we're doing is using the skill set from the console games, and the visual quality and applying it to a casual environment," added co-owner Darren Jobling. "We really see it as being a really unique idea... Basically, some 20 guys came up with this idea, and we've backed it... It's a different outlook to what games could possibly be in the future."
Nothing much to report at this stage, then - but very few British studios have dared dip their toes into MMO development as yet, so we'll be watching Eutechnyx's efforts with great interest.
Speaking to our sister site GamesIndustry.biz, racing game specialist Eutechnyx has revealed it's working on a casual MMO title.
The Newcastle-based studio, currently working on Ferrari Challenge, promises the game will be very different to other casual MMOs. Apparently it will have comparable visual quality to its console games, a flexible business model and will be released in 2010.
"This is an area of giant excitement for us," North American director Todd Eckert said in today's interview. "Although it's a casual MMO, any similarity between what we're doing and most casual MMOs will be purely coincidental. It's a very involved project.
"What we're doing is using the skill set from the console games, and the visual quality and applying it to a casual environment," added co-owner Darren Jobling. "We really see it as being a really unique idea... Basically, some 20 guys came up with this idea, and we've backed it... It's a different outlook to what games could possibly be in the future."
Nothing much to report at this stage, then - but very few British studios have dared dip their toes into MMO development as yet, so we'll be watching Eutechnyx's efforts with great interest.