Shadowbane dev's new game

By Robert Purchese Published 15 January, 2007

MMO based on original IP.

Stray Bullet Games, founded by key members of Shadowbane developer Wolfpack Studios, has announced that it's working on a new massively-multiplayer online game.

Details on its website suggest that, while similar in some senses to Shadowbane, the new game will be will be based on original intellectual property; something unique and "timeless".

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Giant monkey-man fights weakling human squishy bones.

"With this new project, Stray Bullet is committed to creating a fully-realised, ongoing online conflict that combines furious action with tactical and strategic gameplay. In the game to come characters, guilds, and global factions will engage in meaningful, exciting, and fun mass combat."

More importantly, Stray Bullet wants to keep it simple. By licensing an undisclosed game engine and relying upon familiar, accessible gameplay mechanics, it hopes this design process won't be buried under its ambition.

Creative director Mike Madden explains that it has "two guiding principles: Rely upon the familiar and Be bold."

There's no mention of a release date, or which platforms it will appear on, although the PC is a safe bet. Whether Ubisoft will publish this as it did Shadowbane is also a mystery.

Anyway, until you know more, you can ogle at the one piece of concept artwork released for the game.

Picture of Robert.

About Robert Purchese

Bertie is Eurogamer's Senior Staff Writer. When he's not hunting down news stories he's often found playing with his kids or gabbling about fantasy games and strange online worlds. @Clert on Twitter.

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Comments (11) Latest comment 5 years ago

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  • Benno #1 5 years ago

    ""With this new project, Stray Bullet is committed to creating a fully-realised, ongoing online conflict that combines furious action with tactical and strategic gameplay. In the game to come characters, guilds, and global factions will engage in meaningful, exciting, and fun mass combat.""

    Hmmmmm, where have i heard this before??

    Oh yes, every other MMO to exist

  • ZuluHero #2 5 years ago

    it has become the industry standard when pitching a new MMO hasn't it? :)

  • AOFanboi #3 5 years ago

    The original IP sure helped Shadowbane become the king of MMOs, leaving that Warcraft derivate in the dust. Oh, wait now...

  • YourMessageHere #4 5 years ago

    "three guiding principles: Rely upon the familiar, be bold, fail miserably due to not innovating or standing out."

    fixed.

  • MaxiSleep #5 5 years ago

    From the artwork it looks like a steampunk kinda gig (cyber enchanced arm on ape + combination gun/melee weapon on guy)

    But I always worry about the mass combat thing. It sounds great, but often degenerates into a lagfest, dominated by students in the process of failing school/university.

    Still wish them well.

  • crazyhorse174 #6 5 years ago

    For the love of God...

    Please, please, please - stop this deluge of MMO's...your not going to match the success of WoW!

    Stop, now. Its really becoming unbearable.

  • Ryuken #7 5 years ago

    So, did anyone of you chaps actually played Shadowbane? Looking forward to this. :)

  • Sko #8 5 years ago

    More MMOs are a good thing. They provide a brief respite in your favoured MMO from the morons who chant "When something new comes along, this MMO is dead!" for a few months... and then sadly come crawling back.

  • Veldaban #9 5 years ago

    "Please, please, please - stop this deluge of MMO's...your not going to match the success of WoW!"

    What deluge of MMOs? I've seen a number of announcements but there really aren't that many MMOs, are there? And anyway, didn't they all say no one could ever beat Everquest either?

  • AOFanboi #10 5 years ago

    Counting the Asian games there are tons of MMOs; the deluge of which he speaks is probably the recent Archlord, the soon-to-be-released Vanguard, and the later-in-the-year titles of Lord of the Rings online, Warhammer Online and Age of Conan.
    Edited by AOFanboi at 15/01/07 @ 21:42

  • crazyhorse174 #11 5 years ago

    Exactly what I'm talking about AOFanboi.

    I'm probably exaggerating here, but it just seems that there is a new fantasy based MMO announced every week.

    I can only see it getting worse as well, since they've just released the news of the whopping amounts of money that Blizzard have made from WoW.