2K Games announces Civilization Online for Asia

Take-Two Interactive Software has announced the development of a massively multiplayer online game (MMOG) based on the successful Civilization franchise. Through a partnership with South Korean-based studio XLGAMES, and under the leadership of its CEO, Jake Song, Civilization Online (working title) is being designed from the ground up as an entirely new online-only entertainment experience for the Asian market.Civilization series creator, Firaxis Games, and XLGames have been lending their respective expertise and vision to developing Civilization Online. Song is highly regarded for his integral role in creating the popular Korean MMORPG, Lineage, which has attracted 43 million players. For this project, he is leading a team of more than 100 people in Seoul. Firaxis Games is widely known for its long and distinguished history with Civilization, its leading strategy franchise, which has sold-in more than 11 million units worldwide, and includes the critically acclaimed and commercially successful releases of Sid Meier’s Civilization V and Civilization V: Gods and Kings. Earlier this month, Firaxis Games launched XCOM: Enemy Unknown.

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