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Thriller Publishing, a company based in Austin, Texas, just created a new division of game development, which will have a very specific goal.

Thriller called New Media, the study focuses on the creation of massive online titles based on military and espionage themes that fall into the category of first-person action. In turn, the study will be devoted to creating a social interface connectivity to support their games.

What all this is crucial for the name of names, three veterans who were key to the golden era of the now defunct Microprose during the’80s, will form the backbone of this study. It’s JW “Bill” Stealey, Fred Schmidt and Jim Bull. This team, in his words, try to establish a game in the tradition of MicroProse, with a value of your franchise long term. ”

Of course, if this comes with great games that we have ever enjoyed in our PC in those golden eras, such as F-14 Tomcat, F-15 Strike Eagle, F-18 Hornet, F-117 Stealth Fighter, Railroad Tycoon and Civilization, is welcome.

The company expected to launch services within 12 to 18 months. In this regard, the CEO Fred Schmidt said: “We have a large number of products (games) under evaluation, some already under option agreements, and we are looking for more.”

Thriller plans to create games, starting with PC and Mac, and then move on to the field station, talking about Wii, Xbox 360 and PlayStation3 as well as any other platform you see down the road.

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