New Lego MMO Announced

<p>Funcom has announced they are developing a new MMO based on the Danish Minifigures from Lego&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The MMO will be a &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;prominent part” of the Lego Minifigures experience&comma; said Funcom&period; The game is set to bolster the toy’s current online range which currently offers Flash games&comma; competitions and a way to track your own Minifigure collection&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Funcom hopes for &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;maximum accessibility” and will develop the MMO to be &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;available to consumers in their online channels&comma;” according to a statement on the company’s <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;funcom&period;com&sol;news&sol;funcom&lowbar;to&lowbar;develop&lowbar;massively&lowbar;multiplayer&lowbar;online&lowbar;game&lowbar;based&lowbar;on&lowbar;lego&lowbar;minifigur" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank">website<&sol;a>&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>It is not known if the MMO will see a full retail release or if it will be a free-to-play browser-based game&period; <em>Lego Universe<&sol;em>&comma; Lego’s last attempt at a massively-multiplayer game closed in January after failing to make enough money&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;Being able to work with a world-renowned brand such as the Lego brand to develop an MMO for this audience is incredibly exciting to us as game developers and for Funcom as a company&comma;&&num;8221&semi; Funcom boss Trond Arne Aas said&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;This is source material we all know and love and we simply cannot wait to get started working with the Lego Group on realizing this exciting project&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&lpar;Via <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;eurogamer&period;net&sol;articles&sol;2012-06-28-lego-minifigures-mmo-announced-by-the-secret-world-dev">Eurogamer<&sol;a>&rpar;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;