EA today
announced an agreement with 38 Studios, LLC to publish the company’s first video game, which is being referred to as “an epic single-player role-playing game†codenamed ‘
Project Mercury’. For those that haven’t heard, 38 Studios is the creative enterprise of World Series MVP and avid gamer Curt Schilling. ‘Project Mercury’ is being developed at Big Huge Games, a wholly-owned subsidiary of 38 Studios, under the leadership of Ken Rolston,
former lead designer of the critically acclaimed hits, Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind and Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion. The game marks the first entry into the universe created by New York Times best-selling fantasy author
R. A. Salvatore, with artistic direction by Todd McFarlane,
the creator of Spawn.