http://www.white-wolf.com/index.php?line=news&articleid=629

Gaming Industry Innovators CCP and White Wolf to Merge
Combined company to deliver next-generation gaming products online and offline

Reykjavik, Iceland and Atlanta, GA, USA – November 11, 2006 - CCP hf. and White Wolf Publishing, Inc. today announced that the companies have entered into a definitive agreement to merge. The creators of the single largest persistent online role-playing world and the world's second-largest developer of offline role-playing, strategy and collectable card games will create the industry's largest independent Virtual World developer. CCP is the publisher and developer of EVE Online, the world's largest virtual gaming universe. White Wolf is the creator of some of the world's most recognized role-playing titles including: World of Darkness (Vampire, Werewolf, Mage) and Exalted. The combined company will introduce new online and offline gaming products across the science-fiction, horror, and fantasy genres.

The merged company will enable CCP to integrate White Wolf's leading expertise in offline gaming development to enhance and create physical products for its MMOG, EVE Online. Products to be introduced in 2007 will include strategy guides, enhanced collectable card games, role-playing systems, and novels all based on EVE Online. White Wolf will leverage CCP's industry-leading technologies to bring its offline role-playing titles online. Conceptualization and early development has begun to bring White Wolf's World of Darkness, one of the world's strongest gaming properties, into the online world.

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Bad title, uc; White Wolf don't do d20s nor goblins (the closest they come to goblins are the Sidhe). d10s, critters that go bump in the night and much existential drama is what they are all about.

And when you consider the interactive screen saver EVE, one can see White Wolf will actually give you something to do while you "play" the "MMORPG".

white wolfe is a publisher of numerous rpgs that use the "open license" for the d20 fight system from tsr/west coast.

i own several white wolf books that relate to edition 3.0 of d&d (extra creatures books wich also include sub races of gobblins etc).

so yes, they have d20. and yes, they have gobblins.

I used to be part of a live role-playing production company that Mark Rein*Hagen of White Wolf used to enjoy. We did the articulated masks, props and makeup for his Werewolf movie test - I don't know what ever came of it, though I suspect that the optimal window for the full-scale project had closed.

He had a pretty good understanding of what is immersive. It's probably a good thing.

Wow, WHite Wolf sold out too, no idea.

And the Werewolf movie got into big problems, and then White Wolf went after the folks who made the "Underground" movies; no idea how that is coming along.