Sega and Creative Assembly to do Warhammer

[ROJM]

http://www.vg247.com/2012/12/06/thq-loses-games-workshop-license-to-sega-and-creative-assembly-first-game-post-2013/


An official announcement stated that The Creative Assembly has created a new ‘high-calibre’ team to create the first new Warhammer title, which is due for release some time after 2013.

Tim Heaton, Studio Director at Creative Assembly said of the deal, “With this year being our 25th anniversary. It seems fitting for us to embark on such a dream project with such a well-established partner. The incredibly rich and detailed Warhammer world is something we grew up with, and has left an indelible imprint on us as both designers and gamers.

“We’ll be doing the Warhammer universe justice in a way that has never been attempted before. We’re bringing those 25 years of experience and expertise in extremely high-scoring games to bear, delivering a Warhammer experience that videogamers will absolutely love.”

Jon Gillard, Games Workshop’s Head of Licensing added, “We have enormous respect for SEGA and Creative Assembly and have felt for a long time that the combination of the enormously rich setting of the Warhammer world, and their stunning development talent is a match with huge potential.

“Now that we’ve managed to bring these two giants of gaming together it is safe to say that some truly amazing products are going to be unleashed as a result. We are excited at the possibilities, and are enthusiastically working with the team at Creative Assembly already.”

Good news. Its also a full circle kinda thing considering Sega originally was meant to publish Warhammer back in the early noughties.

[Aki-at]

Should have added "SEGA IN NON-IOS GAME DEVELOPMENT SHOCKER" to the topic title Joe ;D

Just been discussing this on Twitter with a few mates. Really happy to see this not because I am a fan of Warhammer, but because SEGA setting up another studio here in the UK to accommodate a high quality title means their future is not set just in the mobile games market... Yet.

Hopefully they will continue to push for proper games development. I just do not want them to be too realient on a few licenses but I am sure The Creative Assembly can do both Alien and Warhammer proper justice.

[ROJM]

Should have added "SEGA IN NON-IOS GAME DEVELOPMENT SHOCKER" to the topic title Joe ;D

Just been discussing this on Twitter with a few mates. Really happy to see this not because I am a fan of Warhammer, but because SEGA setting up another studio here in the UK to accommodate a high quality title means their future is not set just in the mobile games market... Yet.

Hopefully they will continue to push for proper games development. I just do not want them to be too realient on a few licenses but I am sure The Creative Assembly can do both Alien and Warhammer proper justice.

I'm glad you said that and not me. We know CA are doing ALIEN for next gen systems and this news seems to indicate that the UK side isn't totally focusing on IOS either. I can only imagine that these titles will be steam and packaged like SOJ appear to be doing with various PSP/Vita releases. It also strongly indicates that THQ may be in worst shape than we all previously thought.
I really hope Sega management actually stops jumping the gun and come up with some better business sense. Its great to be a leader in tech but they need to have one foot forward and one foot back IE yes focus on various forms of digital but keep producing AAA package games, its not the market that rejected these traditional type of games like BD because they wanna go to IOS games was the reason it failed, its because Sega didn't and still doesn't market their titles properly.
In saying that it also sounds like the successful studios within Sega are being allowed to create these B-AA-AAA budget titles while others aren't.
Well until Sega shocks us with their WARHAMMER IOS game ,fingers crossed.

[thearcticsea]

Really just getting to a point where every piece of Sega related news is a let down.

I hate to admit it but this company's best days are behind it. Sega will never make anything at the level that they used to reach for and achieve. They're just done.

Looks like I gotta go search for an "Atlusbits" fan site.

[CrazyT]

Never been a fan of the series myself either but my brother used to LOVE it. As Aki said, this is a pretty big IP SEGA has gotten hold of so I hope it pays off both for everyone and even the fans.

I am really surprised with SEGA lately, maybe the reconstruction wasn't so bad after all

[Barry the Nomad]

WTF? Oh the SEGA of my past is dead! Wahhhhh! 

Seriously though, Creative Assembly know their shit and can make awesome strategy games. I'm no Warhammer geek, but I do know that it's a big name game and having the Total War developer making Warhammer video games is like a match made in heaven. This is FAR better than the Marvel deal and really could prove to be a success for SEGA in the PC market.

Really, how the hell can this be a let down? I'll admit, Total War isn't my thing. Then again, stuff like the Visual Concepts sports games weren't my thing yet I acknowledge their greatness. Just because something isn't Shenmue 3 or Sonic Adventure 2.5 HD Collector's Edition doesn't mean it's bad news for SEGA.

I give SEGA a big thumbs up for this deal.

[thearcticsea]

Hey guys. I'm really far from any kind of whiny fanboy. I can't express that enough. I'm nearly 30 years old and I've done the Sega evangelist thing. I also am fully self-aware and know that my opinion isn't really important to anyone but myself. Why did I post that I'm kind of over Sega? I don't know.

I'm not crying about this or anything. I just feel a kind of vague sense of sadness over the decisions Sega made and continues to make.

For a long time I've just been out of the videogame scene and having more fun building motorcycles, and other hobbies. The thing is I recently got introduced to Atlus games and I'm remembering how incredibly fun games can be. They have this ability to pull you completely into their world, and I've been remembering how Sega used to be the people who made that happen for me.

I don't really care, as I'm sure anyone reading this feels as well, haha! I'm just a little bit disappointed that Sega just isn't the same. No big deal, or whinefest or anything.

Also, if they were to suddenly get back into the business of building interactive worlds I would be right back on board. As it is I'm still a fan. Valkyria Chronicles gave me a lot of hope.

Anyway, hope this makes a little sense and isn't a disjointed, inarticulate mess (cough semmie).

[CrazyT]

SEGA's always been known makign stuff for various kinds of audiences. You as a SEGA fan may like games which draw you in, while others may prefer the more pick up and playish stuff, and here we're dealing with the more hardcore PC market side of SEGA, which SEGA has always been or tried to part of as well. Hundred swords is a game i thoroughly enjoyed on the PC.

Try to look at it this way as well. Creative assembly is one of SEGA's most  massively respected studios out there. SEGA's name in general hasn't been so great to the masses lately and through creative assembly it's gonna help a great deal to win back that respect.

You shouldn't forget that these are tough times for many studios and good games alone won't sell. It requires name building. In SEGA's case, it's winning back that respect.

Just the way I see it really, but if there is one thing i'll agree with it is that I would love to see more deep and engaging rpg's from SEGA, like valkyria chronicles, shenmue and whatever. There's yakuza now, but I want something more similar to skies of arcadia again.

[Radrappy]

I said it on the front page and I'll say it again here: this is a great move. 

[Trippled]

Then again, stuff like the Visual Concepts sports games weren't my thing yet I acknowledge their greatness.

That's a key thing. Sports games were a key strategy by Sega in the Console days, and I'd assume not many Sega fans actually cared for those.

Once they've gone third party, obviously (licenced) Sports games weren't really needed, so they used the Money to appeal to the RTS PC market, for an alternative audience.

I hate to admit it but this company's best days are behind it.

Which company isn't that was really awsome in the 90's?

[Happy Cat]

I have no interest in Warhammer, but CA and Warhammer seems like something that would go together really well.

[MadeManG74]

I agree that Sega's best days are behind them, but having said that this news seems really good. Total War series is one of my last bastions of Sega love, and this is a great way to introduce the Fantasy/Sci Fi element that we've been talking about for years.

That is of course, assuming it's a strategy game in the vein of Total War... God forbid they try to make another Stormfront...

[Aki-at]

I'm not crying about this or anything. I just feel a kind of vague sense of sadness over the decisions Sega made and continues to make.

But this is one of the best decisions SEGA has made in a long time. I realise license titles have this whole stigma against them but I see nothing wrong here, SEGA are under no pressure to develop the game at a set time whilst assigning one of their best teams to make the title.

This should be no different than when SEGA made titles like Aladdin and Mickey in the past or how they make titles starring Miku. Good games is why we like SEGA and with the Creative Assembly behind it, I think we can ensure this would be another good game.

That is of course, assuming it's a strategy game in the vein of Total War... God forbid they try to make another Stormfront...

That team sadly no longer exists. A crying shame I know.

[Aki-at]

Also another bit of big news should be how large The Creative Assembly has become, it is probably the biggest developer within SEGA at the moment with the announcement of this fourth team. So now we have three development teams focused on high production values (Rome II, Alien and Warhammer) and one mobile networks team.

Also they confirmed that there are five projects running (Alien, Rome II and Warhammer) would guess one is a mobile game while the other is probably another game in the Total War series.

[MadeManG74]

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