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White Wolf MMOs Loom on the Horizon

Slightly old news, perhaps, that Crowd Control Productions (makers of EVE Online) are merging with White Wolf, the company responsible for Vampire: the Masquerade, Werewolf: the Apocalypse, and Mage: the Ascension, all pen and paper roleplaying games that were my catalysts for starting a now-massive costume wardrobe. I admit it; I have a pair of […]

Slightly old news, perhaps, that Crowd Control Productions (makers of EVE Online) are merging with White Wolf, the company responsible for Vampire: the Masquerade, Werewolf: the Apocalypse, and Mage: the Ascension, all pen and paper roleplaying games that were my catalysts for starting a now-massive costume wardrobe.

I admit it; I have a pair of custom-made fangs.

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CCP’s press release states that White Wolf will be helping to franchise EVE in meatspace via strategy guides, collectible cards, novels, and all the other chaff normally associated with “branding”. But here’s the actually interesting bit:

White Wolf will leverage CCP's industry-leading technologies to bring its offline role-playing titles online. Conceptualization and early development has begun to bring White Wolf's World of Darkness, one of the world's strongest gaming properties, into the online world.

This means you won’t ever have to fiddle with applying your whiteface around your goatee again.
White Wolf Merges With CCP [Kotaku]