We now have discovered extra gameplay particulars about an unannounced Warhammer RPG that Video games Workshop and Nexon reportedly canceled previous to its reveal.
On January 18, a report from MP1st revealed that an unannounced Warhammer RPG had been canceled. MP1st reported that this Warhammer sport was within the works at a brand new studio known as Thought Pennies and noticed a number of LinkedIn resumes from builders suggesting that it was a 3rd-individual action-RPG with reside-service multiplayer components. A new report from Eurogamer immediately, January 27, revealed much more about this canceled title.
Particularly, Eurogamer found that Thought Pennies was making a sport primarily based on the Warhammer Age of Sigmar tabletop RPG, the fantasy different to Warhammer 40,000, and that Nexon was concerned within the venture. In truth, Nexon and Video games Workshop had teased this sport in 2021, describing a “new Digital World will function a socially interactive participant-versus-surroundings world supported by Nexon’s world-class Dwell Operations for sustaining the enjoyable with new content material and repair” in a press release saying their collaboration.
This canceled Age of Sigmar sport would’ve seen gamers management “conflict hosts of the God-king Sigmar and his allies as they battle to deliver order again to the realms” and was supposed to be launched throughout PC, consoles, and cell. It finally wasn’t meant to be, in accordance with an announcement Thought Pennies supplied Eurogamer. “Whereas the partnership labored effectively and we received quite a lot of good enter from Nexon, Nexon made a strategic change. Late final 12 months we agreed to finish the venture and Nexon helps as a board member,” Thought Pennies defined.
Whereas this Age of Sigmar sport won’t ever see the sunshine of day, others primarily based on the tabletop RPG exist. Realms of Destroy is an actual-time technique sport from Planet Coaster studio Frontier Developments, whereas Storm Floor is a flip-primarily based technique roguelike from Focus Leisure.