In 2016, former World of Warcraft lead designer Rob Pardo announced a new venture called Bonfire Studios, made up of former Blizzard colleagues and ex-Nexon CEO Min Kim. Nine years down the road, he's finally revealed the studio's first project: A team-based PvP game called Arkheron.
Pardo told VentureBeat that Arkheron has been in proper development since 2018, but said the process has been slowed by "curveballs" like the Covid-19 pandemic. Playtesting with a small community began in 2024, and while the game is now apparently far enough along that Bonfire is willing to share the fact of its existence, it hasn't revealed any specifics except that it's a team-based competitive live service game set in a dark fantasy universe. Pardo said that's in part because "we have not found the right way to describe it in a way that really paints the right picture for the game."
