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[Saty]

Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=IgAdu_9bcXc

Developed by Triumph who made the original and more recently Overlord. Epic might be involved.

Then I asked him if the "big partner" was Epic Games, given the studio's history with Age of Wonders and its presumably large amounts of money. I think I caught him off guard.

He laughed and replied: "You've been reading up! That's something for a later moment."

More details at the link.
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2013-02-06-overlord-dev-bringing-age-of-wonders-back-this-year

 

[marcurius]

What the what!

I love this series, the first one especially, but I honestly never expected that we would see a third one. Looks pretty nice too!

Really cool!

 

[Nyx]

Yay!

Love the series.

 

[PapaJustify]

What is happening? How do all these great game series pop up again out of nothing?

 

[REMEMBER CITADEL]

Great news, will keep an eye on it.

 

[Parakeetman]

Color me excited! Really did dig this series and nice to see it making a comeback!

 

[Basileus777]

Oh god yes.

 

[Perkel]

Spent xxx hours playing Shadow Magic.

 

[Alex Connolly]

Tuco! Where's Tuco!?

This is great news!

 

[Munin]

Age of Wonders was always superior to HoMM. Can't wait

Edit: But man, these games sure are starting to look identical. Give me screenshots of Warlock, HoMM 6, Age of Wonders 3, Eador: Masters of the Broken World and I couldn't tell them apart...

 

[Wes]

Neat!

 

[SLV]

Wooooo, one of my favorite childhood games D:

 

[DrWong]

I agree.

 

[Kifimbo]

For the Overlord fans:

Since Summer 2009 when Overlord 2 has been released, we have been working on multiple unannounced projects. The project we’re about to announce today isn’t Overlord 3 or a spiritual sequel. However we have done extensive pre-production, engine work and playable prototypes on projects that would very much appeal to Overlord fans. But with all the volatility in our industry and the coming console transition, the planets haven’t aligned favorably for this type of project to be taken into full scale production - yet. We have high hopes that in the future we’ll be able to bring you humor filled action rpg games with added minions. Overlord was blast to make. Please bear with us that we can’t talk freely about any future Overlord titles specifically as this series is owned by publisher Codemasters. We thank you for your playing our games and hope for your understanding and that you might give this new game a try – you’ll find plenty of Triumph’s signature style there! For now we post this little glimpse of what we have been working on. As Gnarl says: Evil will always find a way!

https://www.facebook.com/TriumphStudiosGames

 

[Wiktor]

Age of Wonders was always superior to HoMM. Can't wait

Edit: But man, these games sure are starting to look identical. Give me screenshots of Warlock, HoMM 6, Age of Wonders 3, Eador: Masters of the Broken World and I couldn't tell them apart...

Meh..Warlock and HoMMVI look nothing alike aside from perspective.

 

[injurai]

What is happening? How do all these great game series pop up again out of nothing?

same though, completely from left field this one.

 

[Basileus777]

same though, completely from left field this one.

The original studio was still around, owned the IP, and had expressed interest in and teased about going back and making a new one. It's not quite that shocking. They were even hiring staff for a fantasy based strategy game some time back.

 

[markot]

Age of wonders?..... Or age of blunders?

 

[Durante]

Spent xxx hours playing Shadow Magic.

Exactly. Shadow Magic is still the best MoM-like modern game. I expect a lot from this.

Age of wonders?..... Or age of blunders?

WTH?

 

[Basileus777]

Age of wonders?..... Or age of blunders?

I'm trying to find any sense in this post and simply can't.

 

[Alex Connolly]

While a completely different genre, I'll take another Heroes of Annihilated Empires if someone's willing to find the scattered devs and rekindle the magic.

Still think this is news of the week. It's awesome to see AoW coming back.

 

[Jintor]

Sounds cool!

 

[Sentenza]

 

[Broder Salsa]

Well this is great news.

 

[Teknopathetic]

Yesssssss

 

[DaBuddaDa]

Outta fuckin' nowhere!

 

[Sentenza]

Resurgence of PC gaming confirmed.

 

[alstein]

2013 for TBS's = 2012 for fighting games.

You got this, Eador (the Skullgirls of the genre- if the Skullgirls deves were Russian), Elemental expansion, very likely Civ V expansion, and another Stardock announce today.

Not counting any Paradox stuff here.

 

[DaBuddaDa]

...and another Stardock announce today.

Woah woah woah wait a minute. Link?

 

[Wiktor]

2013 for TBS's = 2012 for fighting games.

You got this, Eador (the Skullgirls of the genre- if the Skullgirls deves were Russian), Elemental expansion, very likely Civ V expansion, and another Stardock announce today.

Not counting any Paradox stuff here.

What? !!

 

[Teknopathetic]

Stardock announcement better be Corporate Machine 2.

 

[Sibylus]

Whoa, did this just come out of the blue? Played a good stint of AoW 2 years and years ago. Will be nice to see something of a resurgence for TBS games.

 

[eznark]

Fuck. Yes.

Looking forward to Shafer's announcement today too, should be a fun day for strat gamers.

 

[Wiktor]

Stardock announcement better be Corporate Machine 2.

Don't even joke like that, don't even dare!

 

[enzo_gt]

WAIT WHAT

OUT OF FUCKING NOWHERE :O

 

[ElectricThunder]

Interesting times and growing backlogs indeed----I expect great things from this!

 

[Acosta]

I said in the other tread but I don't mind to repeat myself:

:O

 

[eznark]

Stardock announcement better be Corporate Machine 2.

They have another announcement this week besides Legendary Heroes?

 

[FloatOn]

will this be the RTS that gets me into the genre? time will tell.

 

[SparkTR]

This plus Eador could be my entire 2013/2014.

 

[Teknopathetic]

"They have another announcement this week besides Legendary Heroes?"

I dunno, I'm going off what alstein said.


"will this be the RTS that gets me into the genre? time will tell."

It won't, because it's not an RTS.

 

[RPG_Fanatic]

I didn't expect this announcement. I'll keep my eye on it.

 

[witchedwiz]

take my money!

 

[ymoc]

Outta fuckin' nowhere!

What is happening? How do all these great game series pop up again out of nothing?

I don't know man, but I honestly don't care !!! FUCK YEAAAAH !!!

I still don't believe it....Is this the real life?
Someone slap my face, quickly!


BEST NEWS THIS YEAR

\fanboy over and out

 

[alstein]

They have another announcement this week besides Legendary Heroes?

Yes, the Jon Shafer game, supposed to be announced today. Source for this is his twitter. It will be a strategy game.

 

[Glass Rebel]

will this be the RTS that gets me into the genre? time will tell.

I don't know, did Uncharted bring you into FPS?

 

[eznark]

Yes, the Jon Shafer game, supposed to be announced today. Source for this is his twitter. It will be a strategy game.

http://jonshaferondesign.com/2013/02/04/strategy-games-are-broken/

It's a good article but man he better come hard this morning. About an hour. I guess it wasn't clear to me that it was necessarily a Stardock game. Seems weird of Wardell to let someone steal his thunder!

 

[d[-_-]b]

Sign me up, AoW was awesome.

 

[Diomedeskun]

FUCK YEAH!

Shadow Magic was as close of a return to Master of Magic as I have ever seen. Maybe this game will finally top it. Even if it doesn't I hope it does some awesome new ideas while being a great fantasy 4X.

 

[Bravo_Jade]

Yes! I've been waiting to hear what Triumph was up to, and I've been hoping it was AoW. I hope there's no long wait.