14 DAY TRIAL // Developer Cryptic Studios and publisher Atari have officially announced that they are working on a new Neverwinter video games which is to be focused on cooperative play and will arrive on the PC at some point in 2011, just as well known author R.A. Salvatore puts together a new fiction series that will tell the story of the game universe.
There have been a lot of rumors about Cryptic and about them working on a new MMO project built around the Neverwinter game universe.
The big surprise of the official announcement is that there's no talk of a MMO coming from the two companies but of a PC experience that is built around the mechanics of cooperation between gamers.
Cryptic and Atari are saying that they will be bringing gamers back to the old fantasy city in a climate of instability, with multiple disasters limiting the resources of the authorities and with multiple factions ready to fight for supremacy.
The story will be fleshed out by R.A. Salvatore, the author which brought the Forgotten Realms world to live in his novels, with a first book set to launch on October 5.
Salvatore will put out another 2 books in 2011, when the video game will also be launched, and Wizards of the Coast are also set to sell a tabletop role playing game based on the new adventure.
Atari says that it plans a multimedia event to accompany the launch of the new Neverwinter based video game.
Jack Emmert, who is the Chief Operations Officer at Cryptic Studios, has stated, “We're beyond thrilled to develop a brand new version of Neverwinter. It's been years since the original became a gaming icon and we're honored to work with such a great franchise.”
This fantasy setting has been long used in computer video games, with both BioWare and Cryptic creating titles for it.