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9 years after launching his own studio, former World of Warcraft lead designer Rob Pardo finally rev

Published on January 01, 0001

In 2016, [[link]] former World of Warcraft lead designer Rob Pardo announced a new venture called , 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 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 Yono all app to describe it in a way that really paints the right picture for the game."

It's not much to go on, fair enough, but I do think it's interesting that after nearly a decade of virtual silence, it turns out that Pardo and company have actually been doing something all along—especially given the number of other, more recent veteran-led videogame startups that haven't made it that far, including Casey Hudson's , Jerry Hook's , and Mac Walters' . Pardo's long list of at Blizzard—along with WoW, he also worked on Warcraft 2 and 3, StarCraft and StarCraft 2, Diablo 3, go rummy and Hearthstone—also makes Arkheron [[link]] a project worth watching.

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