Warhorse Studios, owned by online game group Embracer, is growing an open-world role-playing sport set on the earth of the Lord of the Rings, Embracer’s chief government mentioned on Wednesday.
The sport might be set within the fictional world of Center-earth, CEO Phil Rogers mentioned in a post-earnings name. “Simply desirous about one of many greatest and most beloved IPs on the earth being developed right here in Prague is truthfully mind-blowing,” Warhorse Studios’ communications director Tobias Stolz-Zwilling mentioned in a LinkedIn submit.
The Czechia-based studio can also be engaged on one other sport in its Kingdom Come: Deliverance franchise, Rogers mentioned. The franchise’s earlier title, “Kingdom Come: Deliverance II”, received a BAFTA sport award for finest narrative and PC Gamer journal’s Sport of the Yr for 2025. Its gross sales surpassed 5 million copies throughout the first yr of launch, Embracer mentioned in its third-quarter report in February. Rogers didn’t specify a improvement timeline for both of the video games. Warhorse Studios declined to remark when contacted by Reuters. Embracer mentioned on Wednesday it was planning yet one more spin-off after final yr’s three-way break up.
Kingdom Come: Deliverance, along with Embracer’s different flagship IPs like the Lord of the Rings, will turn into part of the newly shaped Fellowship Leisure, set to be listed in Stockholm in 2027.
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