Gas Powered Games to be Tentatively Renamed Wargaming Seattle, Working on Free-to-play MMO

According to this report from Polygon, which recently had the chance to interview Gas Powered Games’ Chris Taylor, the company is currently working on a free-to-play AAA MMO, and will likely be renamed “Wargaming Seattle”, strengthening the symbolic ties to its purchaser. Here’s a snip:

“It’s not a publisher acquiring a developer,” Taylor said in an interview with Polygon. “It’s a developer acquiring a developer […] There was a 99 percent overlap in terms of company culture, genre choices, and leadership.”

Taylor said his company has tentatively been renamed “Wargaming Seattle,” adding, “That’s not 100 percent sure, but it’s not a bad thing to say.”

Though the team is still very early into designing its first game under the Wargaming banner, Taylor confirmed that it will be a “free-to-play, triple-A MMO with PvP,” in keeping with the model of other popular Wargaming titles such as World of Tanks. He said that Wildman, the game he had attempted to fund through Kickstarter, is no longer in development. Taylor expects to be ready to talk about the new project in a few months.