Dark Age of Camelot - The Sequel?

City State Entertainment teases the MMO crowd something fierce

With pride comes power. With power comes control. With control comes pride. Or so goes the introduction to a brand new teaser trailer posted by City State Entertainment.

City what who, now? Let's back up a bit.

If you have been in the MMO trenches for any length of time, you are in all probability familiar with Marc Jacobs, or at the incredibly least the games of Mythic Entertainment -- the company he founded way back in the 1990s.

Dark Age of Camelot, a first-gen MMORPG released in 2001 earned a well-deserved reputation as a superior PvP game caused by the presence of 3 opposing factions -- known as Realm vs. Realm -- instead of just the two we seem to have settled in on nowadays. As a matter of truth, this really is quite especially something that ArenaNet developers said influenced their choice to do the same in Guild Wars 2's WvWvW game mode. And as you can imagine, with former Mythic and DAoC producer Matt Firor heading up The Elder Scrolls Online, you are compelled to bet the design played a role there as well.

In 2009, fans eagerly awaited a 2nd-coming of sorts in Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning. While this game had a lot of redeeming qualities, it also had a few glaring flaws & bugs when it launched, & several give consideration to it the very first true MMO "blockbuster failure" that we have come to know all too routinely today. These events led Jacobs to unceremoniously leave the company he founded.

He disappeared from the gaming scene for a while, but finally re-emerged with the founding of a new studio, City State Entertainment. Their first project was an iOS game entitled March On Oz, a road-defense style game reminiscent of Plants vs. Zombies, but set in the Oz universe.

So as far as we knew, that's all that CSE was working on. Casual/mobile/social gw2 gold games, albeit with high production values.

Rapid forward to yesterday when this video appeared on my RSS feed. What does it mean? No notion. Yet the fact that they deliberately named it a teaser indicates that something is coming. & based on the content of the video, plus the lack of any further description, to me implies we're *supposed* to assume a DAoC-like state of mind. That is sound reasoning, no? I'm right, right?

So, will we see a spiritual return to realm pride in 2013? Might be. This just may be the most interesting gift MMO'ers get this getaway season.