Square Enix and Bigpoint will work together to publish a browser title called Gameglobe. The game will be developed by the Danish studio Hapti.co, and will be an action adventure game with tools and user created content.
“Everyone in games today has to be looking at frankly what can only be described as a proliferation of formats. Of course overall this is driving tremendous growth supported by fundamental shifts in terms of how consumers want to play games,” said Phil Rogers, CEO of Square Enix Europe. “We saw for a whole bunch of people, building and sharing were things they really loved doing. So, if there’s a decision we took, it was to design around these motivations and the format, if you like, just fell out from here.”
“The HD graphics are on-par with the current crop of consoles and the community focus of the platform makes perfect use of the social nature of the web,” said Bigpoint’s executive producer Jan-Michel Saaksmeier. “It feels like what’s being created is the gaming equivalent to YouTube.”
Source: GameIndustry.biz
