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Blizzard Confirms 'Titan' is Studio's Next-Gen MMO

Posted December 16, 2010 by James Brightman

While Diablo 3 is the next game Blizzard fans can look forward to, in terms of a massively multiplayer follow-up to the ubiquitous World of Warcraft, Blizzard has now confirmed that the rumored Titan is what's on the table. 

Frank Pearce, Senior VP and executive producer for World of Warcraft, confirmed the Titan name to Destructoid. "Titan is... the media is not meant to know anything about that. It's our next gen MMO and we've only started talking about it in a limited fashion because we want to leverage the fact that we're working on something like that for the purpose of recruiting – getting some of the best talent in the industry on that," Pearce explained.

Blizzard President President Mike Morhaime has already stated that whatever their next MMO is, it won't outright replace WoW on the market. “We're thinking of it as sort of a next-generation MMO. It's not a sequel to World of Warcraft - we want to do something a bit different,” he said. "We're not trying to replace World of Warcraft. We think that World of Warcraft can continue co-existing with our new MMO and some people might prefer the new one, some people might still prefer to play World of Warcraft." 

For now, Titan could conceivably just be a project codename and not the actual game title. We have a feeling it'll be a while before Blizzard shares any real information on it.

[Thanks Eurogamer]

James Brightman has been covering the games industry since 2003 and has been an avid gamer ever since the days of Atari and Intellivision. He was previously the EIC of GameDaily Biz.