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Half-Life 2 engine licensed for MMORPG

Neowin · Sep 21, 2004 23:28 EDT with 1 comment

Source engine is picked up by Smiling Gator Productions to drive its upcoming title, Twilight War: After the Fall.

HL:2 Engine creators Valve announced today that it has licensed the source engine to Florida=based start-up Smiling Gator Productions. They will use the HL:2 engine in the upcoming MMORPG, Twlight War: After the Fall.

This announced has made Smiling Gator the 3rd company with a licensed HL:2 engine. Troika Games is building its upcoming title, Vampire: The Masquerade-Bloodlines, on top of the Source engine, and Arkane Studios, developers of 2003's Xbox RPG, Arx Fatalis, has also licensed the engine--for an upcoming title. Twilight War will be an MMORPG with a very creative and integrated First Person Shooter style combat that will consist of thousands of online players in a beatiful three dimensional world.

News source: GameSpot