The company that made the ultimate stat-oriented MMO is apparently set to acquire the company that made pretentious gothness cool among the gamer set. I didn’t see this coming, but I’m actually quite excited. I’ve been trying to convince people for years that World of Darkness is perfect fodder for an online world.

Seriously: read my AGC presentation and tell me it doesn’t fit pretty well. Maybe now it will actually happen.

How well the two companies will merge is interesting. At their face, the ultimate spreadsheet-like game merging with a company fanatically devoted to roleplaying seems like a stretch. One thing that both companies does share is a laser focus on owning their own niche, and being as true as possible to the original vision, which I think has led to success for both companies (and WW’s more catastrophic failures can be seen as examples of them diverging from that). It will be interesting if the marriage here is a good one.