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Rock Band and DropMix creators Harmonix Music Systems art teaming up with NCSOFT, the company behind Guild Wars and Blade & Soul, to release a new software-based game that is currently in the “extremely eary stages of development” and will be coming to consoles and PC in the future.
The mystery game will be developed by Harmonix while NCSOFT will take up the publishing duties. The partnership is one of many that NCSOFT has made in recent years to expand the company’s presence, including a $19.7 million dollar investment in VFX studio ‘4th Creative Party’ – the studio behind the Snowpiercer and Okja – and a series of other third party game developers.
“This partnership is representative of NCSOFT’s ambition to reach beyond the PC and mobile MMORPG space with new and innovative titles”, said Dr. Songyee Yoon, president, NCSOFT. “Harmonix’s decades of expertise at the intersection of music licensing and video game development are second to none, and we can’t wait to introduce their upcoming project to the world.”
“We’re thrilled to team up with NCSOFT as a publisher that shares our vision for the evolution of entertainment, and what it takes to build a community on modern gaming platforms”, said Steve Janiak, CEO, Harmonix. “NCSOFT’s stellar reputation as a partner, combined with its incredible publishing expertise, means that we can focus fully on developing our next genre-defining music experience. I am fully confident they will help deliver what I genuinely believe will be a one-of-a-kind game.”
This is an interesting mash-up, as NCSOFT is mainly known for their MMO development with games like Aion, Guild Wars and Blade & Soul, while Harmonix is mainly known for their music games. We’ll have to wait and see what the two companies have planed.
