Board game publisher Fantasy Flight Games, maker of the popular Lovecraft-themed Arkham Horror series, has announced the creation of a new digital development studio, Fantasy Flight Interactive. The new team will be focussed on turning Fantasy Flight's extensive range of traditional tabletop properties into digital experiences and video games.Fantasy Flight is no stranger to video games, of course. It's adapted a number of big-name licenses for the tabletop in the past, including The Witcher, Doom, Fallout, Civilization, and XCOM. It's even dabbled in the digital realm itself - adapting several of its own properties for mobile and PC, and creating companion apps for its tabletop games, such as XCOM: The Board Game and Mansions of Madness: Second Edition.
Moving forward, it sounds like Fantasy Flight Games will take care of companion apps, while digital adaptations will become the domain of its new Interactive studio.
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