Saturday, September 8, 2007

KOTOR MMO?

A couple of years ago BioWare announced that they were entering the MMORPG(Massive Multi-player On-Line Role Playing Game) industry. Of course this made Blizzard, (of World of Warcraft fame), and Turbine, (of DnD online fame), a little nervous. BioWare, in my opinion, has developed the best RPGs in recent years. With, Neverwinter Nights, Balders Gate, and Knights of the Old Republic, to name a few. After the announcement everything went quiet, until recently. BioWare just opened an office in Austin Texas for their new MMO department, and they are keeping tight lipped on the goings on there.

BioWare has the rights to DnD's most famous campaign world, Forgotten Realms, and the rights to Starwars. Lucas Arts has been rumored to be looking for someone else to produce an online game with the license. Could this mean a Knights of the Old Republic MMO? G4 TV's show XPlay just broadcasted last night that KOTOR is more likely than DnD's Forgotten Realms. I'd be fine with either, but I would drop WoW in a heart beat if it were to be a KOTOR MMO.