Turbine developing console MMO

  • Posted August 19th, 2008 at 06:40 EDT by
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Lord Of The Rings Online developer Turbine has revealed plans for a PlayStation 3 MMO, adding to a rapidly-expanding list that includes The Agency, DC Universe Online and the recently-announced Bioware epic Dragon Age.

"We’re looking at creating, hopefully, the first MMO that really works," stated Communications Director Adam Mersky. "We’re not going to rush to be first so-to-speak, but clearly we’re leading the way."

The company also cited a quality-driven development cycle, boding well for the future of this mysterious project.

"We’ll ship something when it’s ready, and when it’s something that’s going to work on the platform," Mersky continued. "Clearly there are a lot of hurdles. We’ve been working for awhile, plowing through the majority of them, and we’ve got a lot of work still to do."

Mersky declined to provide any thematic insight, but marrying the Lord of the Rings property with a next-gen console audience would seem like a no-brainer - hopefully we'll have confirmation soon.

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  1. Doogal_UK | Doogal_UK

    • 6:42am BST - August 19th, 2008
    • 1

    very nice indeed....

  2. rexdeath | rexdeath

    • 6:57am BST - August 19th, 2008
    • 2

    A LOTR MMO game could either end up being very cool, fighting all the different types of creatures with other people helping you or they could mess it up pretty bad. I'm a LOTR's fan but I generally don't buy the games because there ends up being something better on the table.

  3. Odium_Generis_Humani

    • 7:05am BST - August 19th, 2008
    • 3

    The best of that list is easily the Bioware one (though I've always had my eye on The Agency).  Trouble is, this is the only site that suggests Dragon Age is coming to the PS3.  No one else is saying that.  There are a lot of nervous fanboys that are saying that if this is a PS3 exclusive, they are selling their Xbox 360's and getting a PS3.  This would be the western RPG coup that could diffuse the loss of FF13.

  4. yungder | yungder

    • 7:33am BST - August 19th, 2008
    • 4

    the best IMO has to be DC Universe Online.  This game will change the gaming industry.

     

    PSN:  yungder

  5. IndianaJones1936 | IndianaJones1936

    • 8:02am BST - August 19th, 2008
    • 5

    i want a console version of SW Galaxies

  6. Axe99

    • 8:31am BST - August 19th, 2008
    • 6

    I had a crack at LOTRO on PC, and IMHO, it takes the best bits of WoW and improves it a lot - it's easily the best MMO I've played - if they can do a similar job on PS3, it would be a very, very good thing!

  7. RuiyJR | Tseska_922

    • 8:45am BST - August 19th, 2008
    • 7

    what about NCsoft's mmo's ??

    on topic: cool :)

  8. Traveler1990 | NightHawk17

    • 9:58am BST - August 19th, 2008
    • 8

    your exclusive mmo is much welcome and if i like what i see im buying, i'm already 50-50 on this

  9. I95SOUTH | I95SOUTH

    • 10:58am BST - August 19th, 2008
    • 9

    Now devs are starting to come out with news on bringing big times games out. Beforee they would peep around the corner to see if microsoft  back was turn before they would say anything, now some of them are doing the right thing.

     

    psn id: I95SOUTH

  10. gingo | gingo

    • 11:25am BST - August 19th, 2008
    • 10

    psn id: gingo... i am still undecided about MMO's on consoles, i mean The Agency and DC Universe look great but whether they will delivier or not is another question and remains to be seen

  11. taurus82 | taurus82

    • 12:05pm BST - August 19th, 2008
    • 11

    I want Warhammer 40,000 MMO, there are too many fantasy (although Warhammer Fantasy would be welcome) or present-day reality MMOs in my opinion

  12. n0na90 | nona90

    • 12:11pm BST - August 19th, 2008
    • 12

    I guess you meant recently announced for ps3 . I have been waiting for Dragon Age in many years :P

  13. Intervention

    • 12:39pm BST - August 19th, 2008
    • 13

    Anyone play LOTRO? it was the biggest piece of trash I have ever wasted my own money on. I even got the special edition on launch day :( .I bought it to get away from WoW, but after not even 3 days of play I went back to WoW and never played LOTRO ever again. It didn't even use it's own game engine it was the one used on D&D online (which sucked too). I have a feeling anything else they release will be a lackluster, failed attempt to steal WoW's thunder but as every attempt from every other publisher has, it will fail miserably.

  14. The Mask | JSack20

    • 12:56pm BST - August 19th, 2008
    • 14

    i want to see the matrix online or a star wars game wher you make up a character

  15. knowbrainer23

    • 5:59pm BST - August 19th, 2008
    • 15

    What?!? When the heck did Dragon Age go from beign a PC-only single player game to a multiplatform MMO?!?

  16. Atreides

    • 8:02pm BST - August 19th, 2008
    • 16

    @13

    I dont know what you are talking about, LOTRO is one of the very best MMORPG games there is, hands down.  Oh, I see, you are a WoW fanboy, that explains a lot.

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