Petroglyph Partners With Trion For MMORTS [UPDATED]

Update: It has now been confirmed to The MMO Gamer that the MMORTS mentioned is not Mytheon.

Trion World Network, developer of the Trion Platform and RTS developers Petroglyph announced yesterday that they are partner to create an MMORTS. The title is going to be the first 3rd party game on the Trion Platform. Trion recently raised $70 million in Series C funding in September 2008 and has since 2006 raised a total of $100 million.

Trion and Petroglyph’s collaboration will breathe new life into the RTS genre. Renowned for developing high quality and innovative RTS games that appeal on a global level, Petroglyph is responsible for many critically acclaimed RTS titles including the Star Wars®: Empire At War™ series, collectively selling several million copies. During their time at Westwood Studios, founding members of the Petroglyph team also helped create Dune 2, widely regarded as one of the most influential real-time strategy games, and played significant leadership roles on seminal RTS franchises like Command and Conquer and Red Alert. Trion’s expansive team of game industry veterans, coupled with their cutting edge server architecture, will ensure a true evolution of the RTS genre by adding the MMO paradigm to it.

Petroglyph is already working on a free-to-play MMORTS, Mytheon, and it is yet unclear whether or not this is the game the two parties are talking about. The MMO Gamer is at the time of publishing still waiting on a comment in the matter.

Also keep your eyes open for Steve’s interview with Petroglyph about Mytheon, coming up in the next few days.