Hell has frozen over it seems. After 8 years of stealth development, Rob Pardo’s Bonfire Studios has finally released the name of its upcoming video game for the PC. It will be called Arkheron. Naturally, “journalist” Rob Takahashi was given an exclusive interview with Rob about this announcement with some tidbits about the proposed game.
One thing that perplexes me is that it will not be an MMO or MMORPG. It seems Rob Pardo is no longer fascinated by the MMO genre that made Blizzard Entertainment billions of dollars with World of Warcraft. Instead, Arkheron will be a cooperative PVP game that you can play with your friends. If you don’t have any friends that play online video games, your shit out of luck.
Bonfire has a beta tester application link on its site.
Here’s one of the questions in the survey:
Question: What do you notice about this particular question?
Answer: there is no option to select MMO/MMORPG.
It seems Rob is no longer interested in the genre that made him famous. According to him, MMOs don’t even deserve a mention.
To be honest, at this point, if he’s not interested in making an MMO-type game then I could care less about what Pardo and his darlings are up to. At this rate of production, I doubt this game will be released before 2030. Who knows? Maybe I’ll be pleasantly surprised.
–Wolfshead
