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Turbine To Work on Harry Potter MMO?
Post Date: Jun 9, 2008
Category: Game Development
There has been a good deal of press lately about the $40 million in funding Turbine recently received. But what didn't get looked into deeply was who gave them that cash and why. If you follow the money, we think you'll find all roads lead to Hogwarts.

Turbine is a privately held gaming company that specializes in launching and maintaining games from well-known brands, Lord of the Rings Online and Dungeons and Dragons Online, specifically. Time Warner is one of the new investment partners in this latest round of financing for Turbine. They also own Warner Bros. Studios which owns not only the film rights to The Lord of the Rings (and upcoming Hobbit prequel), but also holds the video game publishing rights to the Harry Potter franchise which also just happens to be the biggest movie franchise in box office history.


(Continuation Source: http://www.massively.com/…urbines-next-mmo-project/)
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    ɤSilentkey

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    AWESOME HP ONLINE
    06.09.08 3:38 am
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    ѻFuzzyLovePanda

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    Oh god bad... I bought a Harry Potter PC game once and it just seems like anything attempted to be modeled off Harry Potter for a video game is just trying to cash in on Rowling's success with little regards to the integrity of the game.
    06.09.08 9:50 am
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    Eurgh, livejournal is bad enough, we really don't need to pander to the HP fandom any more than we are now. Unless you want 500,000 people running around with a nude Hermione patch asking to see your "wand".
    06.09.08 1:38 pm
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    OMGHPONLINEITSGONNABESOAWESOME

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    06.09.08 4:14 pm
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    It will be interesting to see how they do this but I gotta say, I'm not expecting much.
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    06.09.08 6:44 pm
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    ɤKevlar

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    It'd only be good if you could play as Death Eaters. Even then it'd b kind of boring since you could just hit the Avada Kedavra button whenever you wanted. Mind controlling people would be cool. Then again I can't see the "evil is always doomed to fail" translating into a gameplay mechanic very well.
    06.11.08 12:47 am
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    ѻmick-mick

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    I'm trying to think how The Hobbit can possibly top LOTR.

    I truly hope it's worth while Potter video game if that's what it ends up being.
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    06.12.08 11:12 pm
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    Well, the HP games had potential, but they're all crap so far. I want a decent game.
    06.13.08 8:58 pm
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