In February 2008 a new game publishing company announced its presence at GDCThriller Publishing, co-founded by MicroProse co-creator J.W"Bill" Stealey along with other former MicroProse members, set itself up as a game publisher devoted to creating military and espionage games with the creative input of (still unnamed) New York Times best selling authors.
Since then there's been little info on what the company has been doing but that changed today with the announcement that Thriller Publishing was launching a new subsidiary, Thriller New MediaThe new division is aiming to launch online military themed first person shooter games akin to similar titles like Combat ArmsThe company will also be putting in a social networking site that will work alongside their games.
Big Download spoke on the phone with Thriller Publishing's PR head David Swofford (formerly the PR head at NCsoft) who told us that while the plan is to continue to develop their previously announced games with the unnamed big name prose authorsHowever, they have decided with this new division to launch online FPS action games in a shorter period of timeSwofford told us that a number of these types of games are already in development at Thriller New Media and that actual game announcements could be made around the time E3 begins in June.