Blizzard confirms next-gen MMOG called Titan

It has been known for a while, but Blizzard made it official.

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"Early this month, an austere document appeared online purporting to be Blizzard Entertainment's road map for the next five years. Dated April 2, 2010, the document listed quarterly release windows for all of the Irvine, California-based studio's projects, including Starcraft II: Heart of the Swarm (Q4 2011), Diablo 3 (Q4 2011), and World of Warcraft's fourth expansion (Q2 2012). Also appearing in that chart was a mystery project, bearing the title Titan and a Q4 2013 release window.


Blizzard insists Titan won't be one of World of Warcraft's competitors.
Though the validity of the chart is apocryphal at best, it has been lent some measure of credence this week, courtesy of none other than Blizzard cofounder and executive vice president Frank Pearce. As part of the 2010 VGA ceremony, Pearce spoke with gaming blog Destructoid, confirming Titan as at the very least a working title for the studio's much-speculated upon new massively multiplayer online role-playing game.

"Titan is… the media is not meant to know anything about that," Pearce said. "It's our next-gen MMO, and we've only started talking about it in a limited fashion because we want to leverage the fact that we're working on something like that for the purpose of recruiting--getting some of the best talent in the industry on that."

Blizzard has been teasing out pieces of its next big project since 2007, when it confirmed that a non-World of Warcraft MMOG was in development. The game, which Blizzard does not see as a competitor to WOW, will be an all-new property with, according to Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick, "a little more broad appeal."
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-http://www.gamespot.com/news/6285568.html?om_act=convert&om_clk=newstop&tag=newstop%3Btitle%3B7

 

Titan = Halo/FPS MMO with social networking built in amirite?

 

My first impression is Titan, the moon. With the game being more about land development and less about character progression, kinda Farmville meets SWG. Second impression is Titan being the name of a large spacecraft or space project. Only lastly do I see Titan is a large creature/god of myth as Fantasy games will be in competition with WoW. Well see though, they probably couldn't even say what the final product will be right now.

Also, as a working title, Titan could simply mean it is the largest project the company has ever undertaken.

 

Well we will just have to wait to see untill more info is released

 

MMOFPS is what I'm hearing being rumored too.

Plus, Titan is just the project name. Hopefully it will be a brand new IP.

 

So they are making a game more carebear than they have already made WoW. :uhhh:

Yey for a new farmville!?

 

MMORPG - RPG + Blizzard = ??

 

I don't really want to think that much about a game coming in 2013/2014

 

I heard that they want Titan to have a more broad appeal than WoW. That seems more likely if they don't want to compete with WoW.

 

Titan

endless speculation

 

So this is going to be watered down, free top tier epic gear for new players starting at level 1. Yay

 

Yes, like every other mmo after the first age of ultima online... and eve....

 

If a company can make the next "farmville" more power to them. That makes Zynga what 30m a month and only has a handful of developers?

 

Wow I didn't know that they made that damn much a month. The devs must be swimming in a giant vault of gold coins like Scrooge McDuck.

 

That's crazy about farmville that is. I knew it was high but damn..

 

seriously, id probally invest in gold coins just to see if i can swim in them.... maybe we should write the mythbusters.

 

Zynga, the social gamesmaker behind Farmville, has a revenue run-rate around $600 million, a source close to the company tells us. Another source confirms that Zynga is doing well over $1 million in revenue a day.

 

wtf you guys talkin bout

 

If you have a facebook you've seen Farmville, or mafia wars, or city ville or <insert cheesey game that middle aged mothers who are un employed and have nothing better to do with their lives play> ville

 

terand that stands for most of the gaming community heh, not just middle aged mothers