Power Word: Gold To Be Made Into A Video Game

Early mock-up of the inventory interface. (Real game will not include Blizzard assets.)

We're happy to be able to finally announce something that we've been working very hard on in secret for quite a while now: Power Word: Gold is going to be turned into it's own stand-alone game!

While we can't give out all the details yet (due to non-disclosure agreements) we can give everyone a few details at this point. This is so exciting! Read on past the jump for the details.

What we can say at this point:

• Power Word: Gold was contacted buy an independent game developer (we aren't allowed to say who yet, sorry) with the idea to create a virtual economy game.
• The game will offer many activities such as gathering, using tradeskills to produce items, a virtual auction house with NPC as well as real player purchasers.
• The game  may include a free-to-play business model with micro-transactions (although the business model isn't finalized at this time).
• While similar in spirit to World of Warcraft's economy, the game will be an entirely new IP with completely original items, materials and interface.
• I will be overseeing the design of the in-game economic systems. I hope to use all I've learned a a game designer and what I've learned about the WoW economy to make a compelling experience.
• The game will be released for iOS (iPhone and iPad) as well as PC and Android (including the upcoming Ouya console!).

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