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THQ And Quazal To Develop New Online System

Posted in General, Dawn of War by Moe on March 18th, 2006

THQ has teamed up with Quazal. The publisher announced that they will use Quazal’s Z-net and Rendez-Vous technology for use in online efforts being developed for 2007.

Net-Z and Rendez-Vous include advanced lobby features more quickly than ever before, and also include an option to use Quazal’s Expert Services consulting division, meaning developers can offload their lobby and networking development, lowering implementation times, and hence lowering risks.

The Quazal/THQ partnership starts with several internal studios, including Rainbow Studios and Relic Entertainment, as well as several externally developed games. The first titles in this agreement will be announced soon, and will be available in 2006.

Note that Relic is explicitly mentioned. Whether this means that Company of Heroes will use a new online service rather than Gamespy is unknown at this point, as is whether this will affect Dawn of War.
For more information check out the article on their site. There’s also a discussion thread on our forums.

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Posted by ARTOFWAR420 at March 18th, 2006 at 8:30 pm

Sweet hopefully this means for DOW too? We’ll soon know.

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