Turbine developing MMO for PS3/360

  • Posted September 19th, 2009 at 11:50 EDT by Mike Harradence
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Craig Alexander, vice president of project development at Turbine, has revealed that the company is working on a MMO title for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360.

Speaking during a keynote at GDC Austin, Alexander said that the unnamed project has been in-house for the past year and a half, and is currently pencilled in for release in early 2011.

Apparently, the firm has spent upwards of $20 million on the game so far, though Alexander remained tight-lipped in regards to any concrete details on the project. He did, however, offer his two pence on the MMO market, stating that he feels console offerings in the genre would eventually surpass their PC counterparts.

PSU will bring you more details on the game as they become available to us.

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  1. Diezel

    • 11:52am BST - September 19th, 2009

    Have the era of the console MMO's finally come?

  2. fleinn | fleinn

    • 11:56am BST - September 19th, 2009

    ..if it's half as entertaining as Phantasy Star Universe.. why not.

  3. DonMatteo | DonMatteo13

    • 12:01pm BST - September 19th, 2009

    DC online is coming to PS3 isnt it?

  4. DarkVincent07 | DarkVincent07

    • 12:06pm BST - September 19th, 2009

    Hope we can play with 360 users.

    Imagine PS3 clan vs 360 clan. THATS how we fight the console wars :D

  5. edward_moffet | edd

    • 12:08pm BST - September 19th, 2009

    I've never heard of Turbine...

  6. zerkulo

    • 12:39pm BST - September 19th, 2009

    ^^ Turbine made DDO and LOTRO

  7. 1GamerGuy1986

    • 1:52pm BST - September 19th, 2009

    @4 that would be awesome.

  8. wowza

    • 2:23pm BST - September 19th, 2009

    Asheron's Call was the best MMO, until around 2002 when they started implementing really idiotic changes.

    I miss that game.  Not in any other game have I had so much fun, or been so addicted to something.

  9. qmoney88

    • 3:23pm BST - September 19th, 2009

    i wish every game would have cross platform support, even with games like mw2. that would be awesome

  10. PSX_Legend | KillZone3000

    • 3:25pm BST - September 19th, 2009

    interesting.

  11. waleed_wael

    • 4:11pm BST - September 19th, 2009

    @4  that would be the greatest thing ... but it cant be done  :S .... psn is a privet network just like the x-box live :D

  12. PsychoMantis | KuruptX

    • 4:39pm BST - September 19th, 2009

    As long as WOW don't come to consoles I don't mind a few good MMO's.

  13. ricandragon

    • 4:41pm BST - September 19th, 2009

    the era has begun and ps3 will be where its gonna dominate. we have dcuo, free realms coming soon, playstation is gonna take the number 1 spot by storm and isn't going to let go. imagine the possibilities, for example guild wars and aion and wow on consoles no one would do anything but stay home a world of slim ps3s and fat owners. lol would be sweet.

  14. Mo-green28 | Mo-green28

    • 4:43pm BST - September 19th, 2009

    I just had the perfect idea, Someone could create a MMO called console Wars and make it beplayable PS3 vs 360... Sony and MS should put their differences aside and do this together. With all the money to support it could be done with quality and quicker than the usual MMO.

  15. Nekratal

    • 6:08pm BST - September 19th, 2009

    great news i been looking forward to a new mmo for consoles since everquest online adventures.

     

     

  16. XAversionX | aVeRsioN_X

    • 7:16pm BST - September 19th, 2009

    good to hear, hopefully its something good.

  17. Nicholes

    • 7:34pm BST - September 19th, 2009

    Naa I don't want to play with 360 owners and hearing their 12 year olds constantly screaming and singing on the mic. oh and also using racial slurs every 15 seconds

  18. Get-it-straight

    • 10:35pm BST - September 19th, 2009

    @4 why would you want that ?so they could talk smack about how laggy our connection is?

    @14 why would you want that? so they can kick our a**es and make psn look bad?

    ps we already lost in battlefield 1943. that prooves it all. wake up!

  19. PS3!!!!! | FOXY007

    • 11:28pm BST - September 19th, 2009

     interesting another MMO.. hopefully console MMO's bring more gamers to ps3

  20. Fiddlesworth

    • 1:33am BST - September 20th, 2009

    Turbine are idiotic FUDsters that have been living in some kind of vacuum for the last two years.

  21. O_G_H

    • 2:29am BST - September 20th, 2009

    @11 and others.

     

    I played FFXI on the following:

    PC

    PS2

    PS3

    X360

    Same character, same server.  It's already been done.

  22. PSU_fail

    • 5:18am BST - September 20th, 2009

    This really happens every generation, consoles hit market, PC gamers either branch off, or stay faithful, console life comes to an end, PC gaming picks up again.  But console MMO's for some of my fellow gamers state, "Console MMO's are always going to be dumbed down compared to a PC MMO."

  23. PYRO-610

    • 8:36am BST - September 20th, 2009

    nice

  24. taurus82 | taurus82

    • 12:10pm BST - September 20th, 2009

    Could an MMO work from a top-down (Baldur's Gate) perspective?

  25. RayzaSharp | RayzaSharp

    • 3:36pm BST - September 20th, 2009

    OMG, baldurs gate dark alliance, that game was quality on PS2. Absolutely loved it. In fact i was playing it on my PS3 earlier today. If they made a MMO a similar style and feel to that, i would love it.

  26. ps3_spid3y | dead_zombies

    • 5:15pm BST - September 20th, 2009

    I hope they bring LOTRO to the consoles, its one of the best mmorpg's on the pc that i love playing. 

  27. jello_snake

    • 6:55am BST - September 21st, 2009

    woo ahhh. another mmo.

    *yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaawn*

    MMORPG's are crap.

    Oooh look at me! I'm clicking on it! Wow! Watch him fight for me! Hey, If I do this 1000 more times, averaging in a 1 kill per hour, I'll make it to level 2 in 41 days! It will only cost me 15 more dollars to play in the meantime!

  28. ukimpact | ukimpact

    • 11:07am BST - September 21st, 2009

    well id want to kno where my 20 million was going if i was a share holder

  29. slimweasel | SlimWeasel

    • 2:35pm BST - September 21st, 2009

    @14 great idea ...sony will be aliance  ms will be the horde. lol  p.s. i hate that game

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