LEGO Universe not clicking together in 2009

by James Egan Feb 17th 2009 at 5:00PM

Filed under: Launches, MMO industry, News items, Casual, LEGO Universe, Kids

We've got bad news for all the LEGO maniacs out there, who've been looking forward to LEGO Universe in 2009. They're going to have to wait a bit longer for NetDevil's take on massively multiplayer LEGO play, according to Kotaku's Brian Crecente, who reports that LEGO Universe may not even see a 2010 release date.

Despite the economic troubles many MMO developers are coping with these days, this news about LEGO Universe is not necessarily a bad thing. Kotaku spoke with the director of business development for the LEGO group, Mark Hansen, who said, "Within the company we have made a strategic decision within LEGO to make a delay of LEGO Universe. It will not be coming out in 2009. The reason is, we have a luxury right now, the business is going good. We have products that are not digital, the physical products, with them going so well we don't want to take focus away from them."

In the meantime, development of LEGO Universe is moving ahead and there may indeed be more additions to the title's initial release. Still, if you're gutted by this news, you might want to check out the full story on the LEGO Universe delay in Brian Crecente's piece at Kotaku.

Tags: brian-crecente, casual, delays, kids, kotaku, launch-delay, launches, lego, lego-universe, mark-hansen, mmo-industry, netdevil

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

BookhouseBoy said on 6:49PM 2-17-2009

This is also an interesting reminder of how long the development cycle is on most MMO's. Although there are dozens of games in the works, the likely release dates for many (that we know about) aren't just not in 2009 or 2010, some of them might not come out until 2012, 2013, 2014 or later. Given how relatively recently LEGO Universe was announced, I'm not at all surprised that it might end up being something like a 2011 release.

Jack said on 7:54PM 2-17-2009

Sorry but the Lego games already are a joke and this Lego MMO is kinda bottom of the barrel Idea! Good MMOs like Stargate may not even make it at the market but crap like this can be release.