Tabletop writer Fantasy Flight Games has opened a digital studio

If you’re even just a bit bit aware of tabletop gaming, you’ve in all probability heard of Fantasy Flight Games. It’s the writer behind titans like Star Wars: Armada and Android: Netrunner, and through the years it’s completely bled me dry with its elaborate and really costly video games. And now it’s shifting into our neck of the woods, establishing its personal digital growth studio: Fantasy Flight Interactive.

This isn’t the writer’s first digital enterprise. Some of its video games, like XCOM: The Board Game, embrace app integration, and it’s additionally created some online game variations of its board video games, like Elder Sign: Omens. It will proceed to launch most of these tabletop-video-game hybrids, whereas Fantasy Flight Interactive will deal with extra expansive initiatives.

Ex-Irrational studio director and Human Head CEO Tim Gerritsen is heading up the crew. He’s been concerned with Human Head’s unreleased model of Prey, BioShock Infinite and Rune, which was additionally transformed right into a tabletop sport.

Fantasy Flight Interactive’s web site is devoid of data other than the press launch in the intervening time, and we don’t know what they’re engaged on, so it’s time to begin speculating and setting up a want record.

Android: Netrunner. Please. Not a CCG, as a result of I merely don’t assume any CCG could possibly be higher than the tabletop model, however slightly one thing set within the Netrunner universe, with totally different mechanics. Running a crew of anarchist hackers, managing a corrupt conglomerate, there are a variety of instructions it may go in. I actually do exactly need to see extra of that world, although.

OK, this subsequent one won’t ever occur, however a boy can dream. Star Wars: Armada The Video Game. Let’s neglect for a second that EA has the Star Wars license till the 2020s and hasn’t precisely handled it kindly. I’m considering of Star Wars: Empire At War’s area sections, Battlestar Galactica: Deadlock and Battlefleet Gothic: Armada — large capital ships colliding and battering one another within the uncaring voice. Shivers!

I can’t speculate alone, so share all your hopes and goals (particularly about Fantasy Flight Interactive, however if you wish to share different hopes and goals I’m open to it) within the feedback.

[Arkham Horror please – ed]