EA Would Be Happy To Publish Another Kingdoms Of Amalur
Kingdoms of Amalur: ReckoningWell, that's sadly ironic.
Now that 38 Studios is basically no more, EA comes out and says they'd be on board with a Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning sequel. Well, there's an outside chance that it's still possible.
EA Labels president Frank Gibeau told Game Informer (as cited by Videogamer) that his company really liked what 38 Studios did with Reckoning; it "reviewed well" and EA has always been big on acclaimed titles. Said Gibeau:
"I think it's unfortunate how everything worked out [for 38 Studios]. At the end of the day we saw a lot of creativity and vision in the team that Curt [Schilling] put together. We thought the game was terrific. It reviewed well. We built a good business there and hope there's a sequel to it someday. We'd love to be a partner for that."
The team was rumored to have started on a sequel when the big collapse occurred and although the IP remains in the possession of 38 Studios, financial difficulty makes any new projects basically impossible. At least for now...the future might be brighter.
Related Game(s): Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning
Tags: kingdoms of amalur reckoning, reckoning 2, reckoning sequel, 38 studios
7/13/2012 10:17:09 AM Ben Dutka
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WorldEndsWithMe
Friday, July 13, 2012 @ 11:17:22 AM
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WorldEndsWithMe
Friday, July 13, 2012 @ 11:18:32 AM
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Beamboom
Friday, July 13, 2012 @ 1:29:15 PM
Cause while I agree that the Amalur world was not immersive enough, oh man was it beautiful. Simply gorgeous imo. A dream world.
But the writing, characters, the story, all that stuff that Bioware is so insanely good at were sorely lacking in Amalur.
It would be really, really interesting to see what Bioware managed to make out of a open world/sandbox RPG.
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Coffeya
Saturday, July 14, 2012 @ 5:31:38 AM
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bigrailer19
Friday, July 13, 2012 @ 3:01:52 PM
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Axe99
Friday, July 13, 2012 @ 5:43:30 PM
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ethird1
Friday, July 13, 2012 @ 6:00:24 PM
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Laguna
Friday, July 13, 2012 @ 11:33:00 PM
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The game sold well enough, just not enough for their financial mishandling.
I am going to buy it for $10 when i get home from vacation. Glorious!
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Saturday, July 14, 2012 @ 5:02:56 AM
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yup we would love to make a sequel because we would make allot of money out of it!
but when it comes to actually spending some money so that could happen, so the team would not go belly up.
well there nowhere to be found!
sad.
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frostface
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Friday, July 13, 2012 @ 10:40:40 AM
Talk about kicking a company while it's down.