Massive tabletop recreation studio Fantasy Flight announce a devoted videogame division

Fantasy Flight are eager to emphasize that their Interactive division will not be immediately adapting their board and card video games into digital kind. While this does break my coronary heart a bit (I’ll commit precise murders if it has any likelihood of getting me a digital model of Android: Netrunner), it does open up some thrilling doorways of its personal, given the vary of attention-grabbing properties the corporate holds, and the way they could possibly be expanded into different recreation genres.

Fantasy Flight Interactive is being headed up by former Irrational and Human Head big-wig Tim Gerritsen, who had beforehand been concerned within the manufacturing of Bioshock Infinite, Prey (the unique, not 2017’s) and Rune. While positively a person with some managerial expertise, the true heroes are going to be the rank-and-file builders. It’ll be attention-grabbing to see whether or not any memorable indie names pop up.

Fantasy Flight themselves will nonetheless be engaged on hybrid digital/tabletop video games, in addition to direct digital diversifications of a few of their properties such because the cellular variations of Elder Sign: Omens and Battlelore: Command, however now I am hoping that we get a correct Android: Netrunner RPG or immersive sim sooner or later sooner or later – it is a setting ripe for nearly any style, from coldly satirical company enterprise sim, to cyberpunk FPS.

While no video games have been unveiled but, it was introduced that Fantasy Flight Interactive already has some PC initiatives within the works, with titles set for Steam launch sooner or later within the not too distant future.