Namco gets rights to first title from Blizzard expatriates
Namco gets rights to first title from Blizzard expatriates
Game News - posted by Spazmo on Thu 18 March 2004, 15:43:58
Tags: Flagship; Flagship StudiosIt was announced early this morning that a publisher has been found for Flagship Studio's first title: Namco, who are either seeking to develop a hot new Blizzard property for consoles or (more likely or Roper and his team wouldn't have agreed) to gain a foothold in the PC market. Here's a snip from the GameSpot story about it:
Referring to the many interested suitors that approached Flagship, Roper said, "We talked to a lot of people. [In Namco,] we saw a unique opportunity. This was a new direction that this well-established, well-historied game company was moving toward. It gave us the chance to be on the ground floor, but with an extremely established company--one whose games we played and really liked."
The move is significant for Namco as it signals its intent to compete in the PC space, although Ennis emphasized the this was not indicative of a move away from console games. "We're not doing PC instead of console, we're doing PC along with console."
Oh, joy, a console version. This can only be good because games that get "simultaneously developed for console and PC" always turn out just fine.
Spotted at: GameSpot
Referring to the many interested suitors that approached Flagship, Roper said, "We talked to a lot of people. [In Namco,] we saw a unique opportunity. This was a new direction that this well-established, well-historied game company was moving toward. It gave us the chance to be on the ground floor, but with an extremely established company--one whose games we played and really liked."
The move is significant for Namco as it signals its intent to compete in the PC space, although Ennis emphasized the this was not indicative of a move away from console games. "We're not doing PC instead of console, we're doing PC along with console."
Oh, joy, a console version. This can only be good because games that get "simultaneously developed for console and PC" always turn out just fine.
Spotted at: GameSpot
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