Sony may be working on a Horizon Zero Dawn MMO in partnership with NCSoft, makers of Guild Wars 2, a new rumor suggests. South Korean finance publication MTN reported that sources familiar with NCSoft and Sony’s plans said both parties entered an agreement where NCSoft would create an online game with Sony’s Horizon IP (first spotted by Kotaku).
MTN’s sources reportedly said that while development and hiring are already underway, Sony and NCSoft are still working out the project’s particulars. NCSoft is currently leading development, but Sony may join in and lend a hand as well, though whether Sony’s involvement will come from Guerrilla, Horizon’s creator, or somewhere else, MTN’s sources didn’t say.
Video Games Chronicle corroborated the rumor and said Guerrilla wanted to include multiplayer components of some kind in Horizon Zero Dawn and Horizon Forbidden West, but while the co-op elements were cut, the development team reportedly wanted to include them in future projects. You can’t get more multiplayer than an MMO, so perhaps what started life as a two-player experience ended up as this new project.
Whatever the case, Sony has yet to comment on the project, so it remains a rumor. However, the PlayStation maker did express interest in venturing into service games earlier in 2022 and moved to acquire Destiny maker Bungie as part of that initiative.
Meanwhile, Guerrilla is working on Horizon: Call of the Mountain for PS VR 2, set to launch on Feb. 23, 2023.
Written by Josh Broadwell on behalf of GLHF
