We all know about Creative Assembly’s wonderful Total War: Warhammer strategy games. Now, Frontier Developments has quietly announced it’s making a Warhammer Age of Sigmar real-time strategy game.
Buried within the investor relations portion of its website is a note that the Cambridge-based maker of Elite: Dangerous, Planet Coaster, Planet Zoo and Jurassic World Evolution has signed an intellectual property licence with Games Workshop to develop and publish an RTS for PC, consoles and streaming platforms for release in the financial year 2023 (the year ending 31st May 2023). This game is based on the popular fantasy tabletop Warhammer, specifically the popular Age of Sigmar era.
The Age of Sigmar tabletop game first released in 2015, and is the successor to the discontinued game Warhammer. Frontier’s game will be the first RTS set in the Age of Sigmar. Creative Assembly’s Total War: Warhammer games are based on the “Old World”, which is now replaced by the Age of Sigmar.
Here’s a quote from Frontier boss David Braben: “We are delighted to announce this licence with Games Workshop. I personally think it’s great news that two such well-established and world-class creative UK companies with global reach are collaborating on a new project. We look forward to working closely with the team at Games Workshop to bring the rich world of Warhammer Age of Sigmar to a wide audience through an immersive and accessible real-time strategy game on both PC and console.”
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This means Frontier has two major releases from internal development teams for each of the financial year 2022, and the financial year 2023. What could those games be? Let’s start with financial year 2022 (the year ending 31st May 2022). In March, Frontier announced it was now making F1 management games after signing a multi-year exclusive game licence with Formula 1. Four F1 games are planned, with the first launching in time for the 2022 F1 season on PC and consoles. So, we know one of those games is an F1 management title.