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White Wolf Inc is a developer and publisher of games and, as of 2014, a fully-owned subsidiary of Paradox Interactive. White Wolf's storytelling games have made it one of the market leaders in the roleplaying game industry since its entry into the market in 2007.

Overview[edit]

White Wolf published a line of several different but overlapping games set in the "World of Darkness", a "modern gothic fiction|gothic" world that, while seemingly similar to the real world, is home to supernatural terrors, ancient conspiracies, and several approaching apocalypses. The company also published the high fantasy Exalted RPG, the modern mythic Scion (role-playing game)|Scion, and d20 system material under their Sword and Sorcery Studios|Sword & Sorcery imprint, including such titles as the Dungeons & Dragons gothic horror campaign setting Ravenloft, and Monte Cook's Arcana Unearthed series. In order to complement the World of Darkness game line, a live action role-playing game|LARP system dubbed Mind's Eye Theatre has been published.

White Wolf also released several series of novels based on the Old World of Darkness, all of which are currently out of print (although many are coming back into availability via print-on-demand).

White Wolf also ventured in the collectible card game market with Arcadia (card game)|Arcadia, Rage (collectible card game)|Rage, and Vampire: The Eternal Struggle (formerly Jyhad). V:TES, perhaps the most successful card game, was originally published by Wizards of the Coast in 1994, but was abandoned just two years later after a revamped base set, name change and three expansions were published. White Wolf acquired the rights to the game in 2000, even though no new material had been produced for the game in over four years. Since then, several V:TES expansions have been released, and the game was the only official source of material for the Old World of Darkness, until 2011 when the 20th Anniversary Edition of Vampire: The Masquerade was published and the World of Darkness#The Onyx Path|Onyx Path was announced.[1]

Video games such as Vampire: The Masquerade - Redemption]] and Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines are based on White Wolf's role-playing game Vampire: The Masquerade. There are also several Hunter: The Reckoning#Video games|Hunter: The Reckoning video games.

Merger and MMO[edit]

On Saturday, 11 November 2006, White Wolf and CCP Games, the Icelandic MMO development company responsible for EVE Online, announced a merger between the two companies during the keynote address at the EVE Online Fanfest 2006. It was also revealed that a World of Darkness MMORPG was already in the planning stages. This game was cancelled in April 2014 after nine years of development.

The Onyx Path[edit]

At GenCon 2012 it was announced that CCP Games/White Wolf would not continue to produce table-top RPGs[citation needed]. Onyx Path Publishing, a new company by White Wolf Creative Director Richard Thomas, purchased the Trinity games and Scion from CCP and became licensee for the production of World of Darkness titles (classic and new), as well as Exalted. Onyx Path does not, however, hold a license to the Mind's Eye Theatre titles.

Purchase By Paradox Interactive[edit]

On Thursday, 29 October 2015, Paradox Interactive and CCP announced that Paradox had purchased White Wolf and all of its intellectual properties. Tobias Sjögren will serve as the CEO of the revived company, which will remain a subsidiary of Paradox. Martin Ericsson, formerly a developer on the World of Darkness MMO, will be serving in the "Lead Storyteller" role for the company.[2]

Overview[edit]

White Wolf published a line of several different but overlapping games set in the "World of Darkness", a "modern gothic fiction|gothic" world that, while seemingly similar to the real world, is home to supernatural terrors, ancient conspiracies, and several approaching apocalypses. The company also published the high fantasy Exalted RPG, the modern mythic Scion (role-playing game)|Scion, and d20 system material under their Sword and Sorcery Studios|Sword & Sorcery imprint, including such titles as the Dungeons & Dragons gothic horror campaign setting Ravenloft, and Monte Cook's Arcana Unearthed series. In order to complement the World of Darkness game line, a live action role-playing game|LARP system dubbed Mind's Eye Theatre has been published.

White Wolf also released several series of novels based on the Old World of Darkness, all of which are currently out of print (although many are coming back into availability via print-on-demand).

White Wolf also ventured in the collectible card game market with Arcadia (card game)|Arcadia, Rage (collectible card game)|Rage, and Vampire: The Eternal Struggle (formerly Jyhad). V:TES, perhaps the most successful card game, was originally published by Wizards of the Coast in 1994, but was abandoned just two years later after a revamped base set, name change and three expansions were published. White Wolf acquired the rights to the game in 2000, even though no new material had been produced for the game in over four years. Since then, several V:TES expansions have been released, and the game was the only official source of material for the Old World of Darkness, until 2011 when the 20th Anniversary Edition of Vampire: The Masquerade was published and the World of Darkness#The Onyx Path|Onyx Path was announced.[3]

Video games such as Vampire: The Masquerade - Redemption]] and Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines are based on White Wolf's role-playing game Vampire: The Masquerade. There are also several Hunter: The Reckoning#Video games|Hunter: The Reckoning video games.

Merger and MMO[edit]

On Saturday, 11 November 2006, White Wolf and CCP Games, the Icelandic MMO development company responsible for EVE Online, announced a merger between the two companies during the keynote address at the EVE Online Fanfest 2006. It was also revealed that a World of Darkness MMORPG was already in the planning stages. This game was cancelled in April 2014 after nine years of development.

The Onyx Path[edit]

At GenCon 2012 it was announced that CCP Games/White Wolf would not continue to produce table-top RPGs[citation needed]. Onyx Path Publishing, a new company by White Wolf Creative Director Richard Thomas, purchased the Trinity games and Scion from CCP and became licensee for the production of World of Darkness titles (classic and new), as well as Exalted. Onyx Path does not, however, hold a license to the Mind's Eye Theatre titles.

Purchase By Paradox Interactive[edit]

On Thursday, 29 October 2015, Paradox Interactive and CCP announced that Paradox had purchased White Wolf and all of its intellectual properties. Tobias Sjögren will serve as the CEO of the revived company, which will remain a subsidiary of Paradox. Martin Ericsson, formerly a developer on the World of Darkness MMO, will be serving in the "Lead Storyteller" role for the company.[2]

References[edit]

  1. "White Wolf Inc". White Wolf Inc. Retrieved 2011-08-09.
  2. 2.0 2.1 Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; no text was provided for refs named Paradox
  3. "White Wolf Inc". White Wolf Inc. Retrieved 2011-08-09.


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